The U.S. Army’s FY2027 budget request of approximately $252.8 billion combines discretionary and proposed mandatory funding to advance investments in personnel growth, next-generation platforms, munitions capacity, and readiness. Stakeholders my wish to monitor congressional deliberations, as final funding levels and program details remain subject to change.
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The White House’s FY2027 budget request proposes a historic $1.5 trillion in defense spending, a $445 billion increase over FY2026, spanning priorities from missile defense to autonomous systems while combining traditional appropriations with $350 billion in mandatory reconciliation funding.
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With less than three weeks left in the first Session of the 118th Congress, this GT Alert provides issue priorities that may see action this month and into the first quarter of 2024.
This GT Alert outlines how the Inflation Reduction Act, which the House passed Aug. 12 and now heads to the president’s desk, would apply to the renewable energy industry.
Under traditional U.S. Senate rules, unless every senator agrees otherwise it can take 60 votes to invoke “cloture” and limit further debate. However, the Senate has established several exceptions. In 2021, the Senate conducted 528 roll call votes. More than 80% of Senate votes (434) were in categories that are considered “exceptions” to the traditional
The legislative process is never straightforward, and this weekend’s news about Sen. Joe Manchin opposing the Build Back Better Act (BBB) is the latest proof. But despite what you may be hearing, there is still a potential path forward for the bill, albeit likely in a scaled down form.
With the possibility of a smaller
On March 31, 2021, President Biden released details on the American Jobs Plan, which provides funding for infrastructure, clean energy, innovation and R&D, manufacturing and workplace support, and the caregiving economy. The package also includes revenue increase proposals to partially offset the new initiatives. Here is a summary of the amounts proposed in each major
Last week, the House Republican Conference voted 102-84 to lift their decade-old ban on the practice of earmarks by secret ballot, smoothing the way for a bipartisan resurrection of the practice.
The news follows the Feb. 26, 2021 announcement by House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) that House Members would be able to request
GT Government Law & Policy Shareholder Rob Mangas is quoted in a March 10 Bloomberg Businessweek article, One Name for Build Back Better Is ‘Infrastructure-Plus-Plus’.
“In my first appearance before a joint session of Congress, I will lay out my Build Back Better recovery plan. It’ll make historic investments in infrastructure, that Build Back Better plan. Infrastructure, manufacturing, innovation, research, and development, and clean energy, investments in a caregiving economy and skills and training needed by our workers to be