Budget
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In the fiscal 2025 budget request, President Joe Biden wants to increase defense discretionary spending by $37 billion to $895.2 billion.
March 11, 2024 -
CISA would get $3 billion under the Biden admin's budget request, including funding to implement new cyber incident reporting rules.
March 11, 2024 -
Because Congress is so late establishing a appropriations for fiscal 2024, the year is getting lapped by the 2025 budget proposal.
March 11, 2024 -
Along with a proposed 2% federal pay raise for 2025, the Biden administration is looking at reforms for federal firefighters, as well as FAA and TSA employees.
March 11, 2024 -
OMB is also setting government job qualification standards for evaluation expert positions across the federal government.
March 11, 2024 -
President Joe Biden has signed into law a package of spending bills passed by the Senate in time to avoid a partial government shutdown.
March 09, 2024 -
House passes $460 billion package of spending bills. Senate expected to act before shutdown deadlineThe Senate is expected to take up the legislation before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline. And lawmakers are negotiating a second package of six bills.
March 06, 2024 -
After two years of study, the panel Congress assembled to fix DoD's budget process made 28 recommendations that could take years to implement.
March 06, 2024 -
Months of tense negotiations and four continuing resolutions later, a new appropriations minibus puts several agencies at or below fiscal 2023 spending levels.
March 05, 2024 -
It is not what contractors or most federal employees wanted, but Congress did manage to avoid a partial government shutdown last week.
March 04, 2024 - Congress approves short-term extension to avoid shutdown, buy more time for final spending agreement
The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The short-term extension is the fourth in recent months.
February 29, 2024 -
Russian brutality on parade once again. No end in sight for the Middle East conflict. No federal 2024 budget and the border crisis rolls on. What a great time for Congress to take a recess.
February 20, 2024 -
The Federal Program Inventory, an online database government programs Congress first mandated in 2011, finally went live Thursday.
February 15, 2024 -
That proverbial battered can. Well Congress has once again kicked it down Constitution Avenue. The latest continuing resolution keeps the government going until March 1 for some agencies and March 8 for others. For what has to happen next, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Loren Duggan, Bloomberg Government's deputy news director.
January 22, 2024 -
After gathering feedback from agency leaders, the Office of Personnel Management has found common limitations that are leading to challenges with long-term workforce planning.
January 17, 2024