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The United States budget process is the framework used by
Congress and the
President of the United States to formulate and create the
United States federal budget. The process was established by the
Budget and Accounting Act of 1921,[1]
the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974,[2]
and additional budget legislation.
Prior to 1974, Congress had no formal process for establishing a federal budget.
When President
Richard Nixon began to refuse to spend funds that Congress had allocated,
they adopted a more formal means by which to challenge him. The Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 created the
Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which gained more control of the budget,
limiting the power of the President's
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Act passed easily while the
administration was embroiled in the
Watergate scandal and was unwilling to provoke Congress.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_process
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An appropriations bill is
legislation in the
United States Congress to
appropriate[1]
federal funds to specific federal government departments, agencies and
programs. The money provides funding for operations, personnel, equipment and
activities.[2]
Regular appropriations bills are passed annually, with the funding they provide
covering one fiscal year. The fiscal year is the accounting period of the
federal government, which runs from October 1 to September 30 of the following
year.[3]
Appropriations bills are under the jurisdiction of the
United States House Committee on Appropriations and the
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations.[2]
Both Committees have twelve matching subcommittees, each tasked with working on
one of the twelve annual regular appropriations bills.
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There are three types of appropriations bills: regular appropriations bills, continuing resolutions, and supplemental appropriations bills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriations_bill_%28United_States%29
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An authorization bill
is a type of
legislation used in the
United States to authorize the activities of the various agencies and
programs that are part of the
federal government of the United States. Authorizing such programs is one of
the
powers of the United States Congress. Authorizations give those things the
legal power to operate and exist.[1]
Authorization bills must be passed in both the
United States House of Representatives and the
United States Senate before being signed by the
President of the United States in order to become
law.[2]
They may originate in either chamber of Congress, unlike
appropriations bills, which must originate in the House.[3]
They can also be considered at any time during the year.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_bill
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The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Pub.L.
115–141) is a United States
omnibus spending bill for the
United States federal government
for FY2018 enacted by the
115th United States Congress and signed into law by
President
Donald
Trump on March 23, 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_Act,_2018
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In the United States, a continuing resolution (often abbreviated to CR)
is a type of
appropriations
legislation.
A continuing resolution
continues the pre-existing appropriations at the same levels as the previous
fiscal year (or with minor modifications) for a set amount of time.[1]
Continuing resolutions typically provide funding at a rate or formula based on
the previous year's funding.[3]
The funding extends until a specific date or regular appropriations bills are
passed, whichever comes first. There can be some changes to some of the accounts
in a continuing resolution. The continuing resolution takes the form of a
joint resolution, and may provide bridging funding for existing federal
programs at current, reduced, or expanded levels.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_resolution
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An earmark is a provision inserted into a
discretionary spending
appropriations bill that directs funds to a specific recipient while
circumventing the merit-based or competitive funds allocation process. Earmarks
feature in
American and
South
African
public finance.
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Unlike the
spoils system, earmarks do not increase public spending as a direct effect;
an earmark considered in isolation merely shift funds from one recipient to
another. However, earmarks often feature prominently in the political
horse trading required to enact legislation, and may create or abet
perverse incentives in this realm.[citation
needed] Additionally, due to its surface structure as a
zero sum game, it can serve to promote petty
regionalism, where the
public interest might have been better served by constituents organizing on
a larger scale, to contest issues of greater import.[citation
needed] On the flip side, political bargaining around
earmarks might usefully contribute to the process of reaching
bipartisan consensus on a legislative agenda, ameliorating the negative
public consequences of legislative
gridlock.[citation
needed]
"Earmark" comes from the livestock term, where the ears of domestic animals were
cut in specific ways so that farmers could distinguish their stock from others
grazing on public land. In particular, the term comes from earmarked hogs where,
by analogy,
pork-barreled legislation would be doled out among members of the local
political machine.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark_%28politics%29
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An omnibus spending bill is a type of
bill in the United States that packages many of the smaller ordinary
appropriations bills into one larger single bill that could be passed with only
one vote in each house.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_spending_bill
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Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2018
...
The Congress.gov appropriations
table provides convenient access to continuing appropriations, omnibus
appropriations, supplemental appropriations, regular appropriations, and budget
resolutions. Learn more about
legislative appropriations
and the Federal budget.
https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/Appropriations+for+Fiscal+Year+2018
March 20: What’s
in and what’s out in the $1.3T omnibus spending bill
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/20/what-is-in-spending-bill-426091
March 21: Congress Hits A New Low As It
Struggles To Pass A Spending Bill
Congressional Republican leaders are desperately trying to pass a $1.3 trillion
omnibus spending bill before the current money runs out on Friday. Already since
the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, Congress has passed five successive
temporary spending bills as it has failed to come up with a comprehensive
spending package. Twice Congress has not been able to enact a temporary fix in
time, causing brief government shutdowns.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestiefer/2018/03/21/the-omnibus-spending-bill-process-deserves-a-grade-of-f/#44bb4df2e3b0
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March 22:
The Omnibus Spending Bill Is a Fiscal Embarrassment
Republicans prove yet again why they deserve to be labeled the biggest swamp
spenders.
https://reason.com/archives/2018/03/22/the-omnibus-spending-bill-is-a-fiscal-em
March 22: Health Care Programs to Receive
Major Boost from Omnibus Spending Bill
The new omnibus spending bill would add $4 billion to combating the opioid
epidemic and increase the NIH budget by $3 billion.
Health care programs are expected to benefit from a
major boost in federal spending as part of the two-year, $1.3 trillion omnibus
spending bill Congress is considering this week.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-care-news/articles/2018-03-22/health-care-programs-to-receive-major-boost-from-omnibus-spending-bill
March 22: Omnibus spending bill complicates
administration’s reorg plans
The omnibus includes all 12 appropriations bills and conforms to the new
spending caps set in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which Congress passed
last month.
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Though many agencies’ reorganization plans will eventually require congressional
action, the 2018 omnibus slows departments from cutting whole offices or
programs immediately on their own without congressional approval.
Civilian agencies are generally spared from the deep spending cuts the
president’s 2018 and 2019 budget proposals originally suggested. Even agencies
such as the Environmental Protection Agency will see its budget frozen for the
remainder of the fiscal year.
https://federalnewsradio.com/budget/2018/03/omnibus-complicates-administrations-reorganization-plans-as-congress-begins-votes/
March 22:
Here's What the Military Gets in $1.3 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill
The Navy gets
14 new ships, including a carrier; the
Air Force adds
56 F-35s; the Army
gets 17
Apache and 11
Lakota
helicopters; the
Marine Corps receives 24 vertical landing F-35Bs; and the
Coast Guard
gets a
long-needed icebreaker.
All the troops get funding for a 2.4 percent
pay raise that took effect at the beginning of the year, with the
possibility for more next year.
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The Air Force also gets $103 million for the wing replacement program on the
A-10 Thunderbolt as a start in what Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said
earlier this week is a plan to keep the "Warthogs" flying at least to 2030.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/03/22/heres-what-military-gets-13-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill.html
Mar 22:
10 ways the GOP sold you out in the omnibus spending bill ...
“When we rush to pass bill
that a lot of us don't understand, we are not doing our job.” ~Speaker Paul
Ryan, 2015.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/10-ways-gop-sold-omnibus-spending-bill/
March 22: NASA receives $20.7 billion in
omnibus appropriations bill
https://spacenews.com/nasa-receives-20-7-billion-in-omnibus-appropriations-bill/
March 22: Congress's 'Baby Steps' on Guns
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The omnibus spending bill includes the Fix NICS Act, more money for school
safety, and a clarification on federal research. But the changes fall short of
what gun-control advocates have demanded.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/congress-guns-fix-nics-baby-steps/556250/
March 23: $1.3 Trillion Omnibus Spending
Bill Passes After GOP Drops Anti-Environment Riders
Congressional negotiators also rejected Trump's deep cuts to EPA and the Office
of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and dropped some campaign finance
changes.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22032018/congress-omnibus-spending-bill-environment-clean-energy-riders-campaign-finance-dark-money
March 23: Nearly six months behind schedule,
Congress voted last night to pass a mammoth “omnibus”
spending bill to keep the federal lights on for the rest of the fiscal year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
March 23: No DACA, No Wall: How the Omnibus
Spending Bill Left Both Sides of the Immigration Fight Empty-Handed
http://www.newsweek.com/omnibus-spending-bill-immigration-859302
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March 23: Arts Funding Gets a Boost in
Omnibus Spending Bill
The legislation funds the government through Sept. 30, and includes a $3 million
boost in the budget for the
National Endowment for the Arts, as well as for its sister agency, the
National Endowment for the Humanities. Their budgets will each be nearly $153
million for the fiscal year 2018.
The White House had proposed eliminating funding for the NEA and NEH in its
budget proposals this year and last year. But Congress ultimately sets spending
levels.
https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/trump-budget-arts-funding-1202735220/
March 23: Donald Trump would get $1.6
billion in funding for a border wall through the US
spending bill that is currently awaiting a final vote in US Congress.
The money would cover a tiny fraction—33 miles—of the new barrier he has
promised to build to block illegal immigration. Another provision of the bill,
however, could double the annual number of low-skilled immigrant workers the US
admits into the country.
https://qz.com/1235773/us-omnibus-spending-bill-funds-donald-trumps-border-wall-and-60000-h-2b-visas/
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March 25: Omnibus spending bill leaves out
health, retirement provisions
The spending bill did not include changes to health and retirement benefits that
the benefits industry would have liked to have seen, including individual market
stabilization for the ACA, health savings account improvements and retroactive
relief from the Affordable Care Act employer mandate penalties and ACA reporting
duties. It also left out the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act, which,
benefits industry experts contend, would have made it easier for individuals to
save for retirement.
“The bill does not include legislative priorities we in the benefits community
hoped to include in the bill and we are not giving up on pushing for those
changes,” says Geoff Manville, principal, government relations in Mercer’s
Washington, D.C. office.
https://www.benefitnews.com/news/omnibus-spending-bill-leaves-out-health-retirement-provisions
March 26:
Omnibus Spending Bill Was a Giant Giveaway to the Swamp
Last Wednesday, House leadership released a 2,232-page
omnibus spending bill that keeps the federal
government open through October.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/03/26/omnibus-spending-bill-giant-giveaway-swamp/
September 13: The
House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a $146 billion
spending bill to fund the Energy Department, veterans' programs and the
legislative branch as part of a bid to avoid a government shutdown Oct. 1.
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The White House has indicated that Trump will sign the so-called "minibus"
package, which accounts for three of the 12 annual spending bills that fund the
government and is the first of three such measures Congress has aimed to approve
this month.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-146b-minibus-bill-sends-to-trump-for-approval
September 13: The
House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a $146 billion
spending bill to fund the Energy Department, veterans' programs and the
legislative branch as part of a bid to avoid a government shutdown Oct. 1.
The White House has indicated that Trump will sign the so-called "minibus"
package, which accounts for three of the 12 annual spending bills that fund the
government and is the first of three such measures Congress has aimed to approve
this month.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-146b-minibus-bill-sends-to-trump-for-approval
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December 3: Congress Poised To Punt On
Government Spending Fight Over Border Wall
House leaders are drafting a bill to postpone a potential government shutdown
from midnight on Friday night to the end of the day on Dec. 21.
That gives negotiators an extra two weeks to finalize legislation to fund
roughly a dozen agencies, including critical areas like the State Department and
the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation. But it is the fight
over money for President Trump's planned wall on the U.S. border with Mexico
that has been the main sticking point in the talks so far.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/03/672984140/congress-poised-to-punt-on-government-spending-fight-over-border-wall
December 20: House passes spending bill with
$5 billion for Trump's border wall
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/20/politics/government-shutdown-congress-continuing-resolution-spending-bill/index.html
December 21: Shutdown Inevitable as Spending
Bill Negotiations Stall
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/government-shutdown-spending-bill-negotiations-stall/
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February
13: Another week in Washington comes with another
chaotic scramble to prevent a government shutdown.
With a little more than two days to spare before funding lapses for the second
time since December, confusion reigned Wednesday. Congress hurried to hash out
text for spending legislation, as a few remaining snags held up the release of a
final plan.
News outlets say President Donald Trump is expected to sign what lawmakers pass
— even as Trump and his administration stress that he wants to see legislation
before backing it. On Wednesday, the president said "we'll be looking for
landmines" in the form of unwanted proposals once the plan is finished.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/trump-wont-commit-to-signing-border-security-deal-ahead-of-shutdown.html
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May 24: The House on
Friday failed to pass the Senate-passed $19 billion bill providing disaster aid
funding to parts of the United States hit by hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes
and wildfires after a Republican lawmaker objected.
The House tried to pass the measure during a pro forma session by unanimous
consent, since most lawmakers had left for a weeklong Memorial Day recess the
day before. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, objected, saying the bill didn't address the
humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and that it was not paid for.
"Our nation is strong enough, and compassionate enough, to have a responsive and
fiscally responsive approach to help people who are hurting in the wake of
natural disasters," he said.
It was unclear what would happen next. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in
a statement that he would be "discussing a path forward with Members on both
sides of the aisle, and we will take action as early as next week when the House
meets again during pro forma."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-fails-pass-19-billion-disaster-relief-bill-after-gop-n1009741
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