Like households, the federal government must live within the confines of a budget. However, those confines are much, much ...
The full-year CR is roughly equivalent to FY 2024 funding with a few anomalies, including the removal of all Congressionally Directed Spending (“earmarks”) and other smaller shifts in funding between ...
Discretionary spending - which covers defense, transportation, education and other departments - makes up less than a third of overall federal outlays. In 2023, discretionary spending totaled $1.7T.