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Detailed FY2022 Biden Budget Request Expected Today

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Following up on its “skinny” budget document released in April, the Biden Administration is expected to make public its detailed FY2022 budget request later today.

While the April shell document highlighted a number of broader themes that the new Administration would like to pursue, the budget documents expected to today should fill out the questions regarding the budget details of each individual agency.

Please check back during the day as our office will provide details as they become available.

Biden Administration Releases Outlines of First Budget Request

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The Biden Administration released today the broad outlines of it first budget request. Often referred to as the “skinny budget,” the proposal includes very topline Administration budget requests for various departments and agencies for the coming year. The detailed full budget request will not be available until later this spring.

The 58-page document is available on the White House website here.

The entire package calls for approximately $1.5 trillion in discretionary spending for FY2022, and includes a modest 1.7-percent increase for Defense and a16-percent increase for non-defense programs from the current levels.  Taken together, the Biden budget proposal calls for an 8-percent increase in all discretionary spending over FY2021.

Some of the topline highlights include:

  • a new $6.5-billion ARPA-H within the NIH, which would be funded at $51 billion under this budget request
  • a new $14-billion investment in climate related activities across the entire federal government
  • an increase of 41 percent for the Department of Education (ED), for a total of approximately $102 billion

In addition to ED, the budget request calls for the following funding levels for the following agencies:

  • $10.2 billion for NSF (increase of $1.7 billion, or 20%)
  • $6.9 billion for NOAA (increase of $1.4 billion)– within this proposed amount is $800 million to expand investments in climate research, support regional and local decision-making with climate data and tools, and improve community resilience to climate change.
  • $1.4 billion for Department of Interior (increase of $2.4 billion, or 16%)
  • $24.7 billion for NASA (increase of $1.5 billion, or 6.3%)
  • $46.1 billion for Department of Energy (increase of $4.3 billion, or 10.2%)
  • $1 billion for a new ARPA-Climate

Within the ED budget, the Biden plan calls for an increase of $400 in the Pell Grant maximum from the discretionary side of the budget.  The Pell Grant program is funded with both discretionary and mandatory spending and it remains to be seen whether an increase in mandatory spending for Pell will be included in the detailed budget proposal that is expected to be released later this spring.

 

 

 

UW Publishes 2021 Federal Agenda

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The University of Washington has published our 2021 Federal Agenda outlining our top priorities for the coming year. Our agenda reflects a commitment to service, excellence, and innovation, taking into account the unique challenges of the past year.

We are proud of our longstanding partnership with the federal government and look forward to further collaboration in 2021.

House Reconciliation Package Now Headed to Budget Committee

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With the Reform and Oversight Committee wrapping up its markup late Friday, the nine committees scheduled to act on pieces of the larger budget reconciliation measure concluded their work, sending the individual components to the Budget Committee for the next step in the process, which is to craft a much more comprehensive $1.9-trillion package.

The following committees marked up measures under jurisdiction:  Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, Small Business, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans’ Affairs, and Ways and Means.  Among the committees which received reconciliation instructions but did not hold a markup was the House Science Committee.

House Committees March Through Reconciliation Process

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The vast majority of House committees with reconciliation instructions continue to march towards completing that process.

The following committees have completed their bills, as of Friday morning: Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Small Business, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs.

The Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled to reconvene today to complete consideration of its bill while the Oversight Committee is also scheduled to meet today.

The Science, Foreign Affairs, and Natural Resources Committees are not scheduled to hold markups for their instructions.

Our colleagues at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities have produced an initial analysis of the provisions of interest to the public research university community, which is available here.