House and Senate leaders have announced plans to pass two large fiscal year 2020 spending packages to fund all federal programs before the current Continuing Resolution expires on December 20.
House and Senate leaders have announced plans to pass two large fiscal year 2020 spending packages to fund all federal programs before the current Continuing Resolution expires on December 20.
One of the two bills will include appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Health and Human Services. House and Senate negotiators have been negotiating differences between their chambers in order to avoid a third Continuing Resolution or a government shutdown after the December 20 deadline.
An agreement reached in July by the White House, Senate and House to increase federal spending caps for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 paved the way for passage of the FY20 spending bills. Without the spending cap agreement, nondefense discretionary spending would have been cut by 9% for FY20, compared to FY19. Instead, the budget caps agreement provided for a $27 billion increase in nondefense discretionary spending for FY20 over the FY19 level. Compared to FY20, the budget caps agreement raises FY21 nondefense discretionary spending by only $2 billion across all programs.
LeadingAge will issue an analysis of the spending package upon the bill’s release.