All things considered, adopting a 416-page, near-$1 trillion spending plan with more than 800 amendments over a 14-1/2 hour span—including more than 11 in deliberative, often heated, debate—is a good day’s work for a congressional committee. So, there was a bit of congratulatory relief as the clocked crawled toward 12:30 a.m. on June 22 when…
Republicans Seek to Cut ‘Woke’ Programs Out of Pentagon’s Proposed Budget
House Republicans are expected to support three amendments calling for the Pentagon to audit and eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training programs when the House Armed Services Committee convenes June 21 to begin vetting the proposed $874.2 billion fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (FY24 NDAA). Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) revealed on Fox…
US Army, Air Force Budget Requests Not Geared to Check China: Subcommittee Chair
A lot of facts are built into the proposed 412-page Fiscal Year (FY24) U.S. defense budget, nearly $1 trillion worth of them. But trends in budget requests from the service branches under the Biden administration make at least two “immutable facts” stand out to Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.). “First, the Army does not have sufficient…
Proposed $874 Billion Defense Budget Cleared for House Hearings Beginning Next Week
After nearly five months of hearings, the House Armed Forces Committee’s six subcommittees on June 13 quickly and unanimously adopted their components of the proposed $874.2 billion fiscal year 2024 (FY24) national defense budget. The next stop for the draft National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), filed as House Bill 2670, is its first hearing before…
Proposed House Budget Demands US Navy Float More Boats Than It’s Asking For
It’s not likely this has happened often, if ever, in the annals of haggles over U.S. military budgets: Congress is demanding the Navy float more boats than it wants to. But that’s the case with the House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee approving a proposed spending plan that calls for construction of…
Bureau of Land Management’s New ‘Conservation’ Rule Will Restrict Public Access to Federal Lands: Sen. Barrasso
For a half-century, the United States Department of Interior (DOI) has used a multi-use doctrine in administering much of the 480 million acres of federal public lands its 11 agencies manage across the country. Under the Federal Land Policy & Management Act of 1976, recreational activities such as fishing, hunting, and camping are regarded as…
Biden Proposes $100 Billion Budget Fix for America’s ‘Affordable Housing Crisis’
President Joe Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request seeks $73.3 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a $1.1 billion increase from its FY23 budget, and calls for a dramatic boost in affordable housing allocations over the next decade. HUD’s proposed spending plan incorporates annual budget requests from 16 offices within…
Biden Proposes $100 Billion Budget Fix for US ‘Affordable Housing Crisis’
President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2024 (FY24) budget request seeks $73.3 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a $1.1 billion increase from its fiscal 2023 budget, and calls for a dramatic boost in affordable housing allocations over the next decade. HUD’s proposed spending plan incorporates annual budget requests from 16 offices within…
IN DEPTH: Blanket Budget Slash to ’22 Spending Levels Could Defund Biden’s Green Energy Push
President Joe Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request increases discretionary funding for the Department of Interior (DOI) by $2 billion to $18.9 billion—a 12-percent increase from this year’s enacted spending plan. Much of that proposed hike chips away at long-lingering deferred maintenance backlogs, beefs up federal wildlands fire-fighting capacities, accelerates water development projects, sustains…
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