Federal spending has been held relatively steady for the past few years by stringent budget caps set by the 2011 Budget Control Act (PL 112-25). The December 2013 budget agreement known as Ryan-Murray (PL 113-67) eased those caps for two years (fiscal 2014 and 2015). Here's where the House, Senate and president prefer the money goes for the coming fiscal year.
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| (In billions of dollars) | Fiscal 2014 Enacted |
Fiscal 2015 Enacted |
Obama Request Fiscal 2016 |
House Fiscal 2016 |
Senate Fiscal 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 20.88 | 20.58 | 21.47 | 20.65 | 20.51 |
| Commerce-Justice-Science | 51.60 | 50.10 | 52.05 | 51.37 | 51.07 |
| Defense | 486.85 | 490.19 | 526.93 | 490.24 | 489.13 |
| DoD Overseas Contingency Operations | 85.19 | 64 | 50.9 | 88.42 | 86.87 |
| Energy-Water | 34.06 | 34.20 | 36.04 | 35.40 | 35.37 |
| Financial Services | 21.85*** | 21.82 | 24.55 | 20.25*** | 20.56 |
| Homeland Security | 39.27 | 39.67 | 41.43 | 39.33 | 40.21 |
| DHS Overseas Contingency Operations | 0.23 | 0.21 | -- ** | -- | 0.16 |
| Interior-Environment | 30.06 | 30.42 | 32.21 | 30.17 | 30.01 |
| Labor-HHS-Education | 156.77 | 156.76 | 167.67 | 154.54 | 153.19 |
| Legislative Branch | 4.26 | 4.30 | 4.53 | 4.30 | 4.31 |
| Military Construction-VA | 73.30 | 71.81 | 78.79 | 76.06 | 77.57 |
| MilCon Overseas Contingency Operations | -- | 0.22 | -- | 0.532 | -- |
| State-Foreign Operations | 42.48 | 40.01 | 46.90 | 40.50 | 39.01 |
| State-ForOps Overseas Contingency Operations | 6.52 | 9.26 | 7.05 | 7.33 | 9.26 |
| Transportation-HUD | 50.86 | 53.77 | 55.35* | 55.27 | 55.64 |
| TOTAL (not including OCO) | 1,012.24 | 1,013.63 | 1,087.90 | 1,016.58 | 1,016.58 |
Notes: Columns above may not add up due to rounding.
The House Appropriations Committee approved allocations on April 22 and made revisions May 13. Senate Appropriations approved its allocations on May 21.
Enacted spending measures cited above are:
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (PL 113-76)
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (PL 113‐235)
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 (PL 114‐4)
* President's request included more than $7 billion in typically discretionary transportation-related funding that the president shifted to the mandatory side. That funding is not reflected in this figure.
** This request was shifted to the Defense OCO account, though $160 million of it would eventually be shifted to the Coast Guard, which falls under DHS.
*** Proposed or enacted appropriations for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission were included in the Agriculture titles in these instances.
Updated May 22, 2015