2023 United States federal budget
The United States federal budget for fiscal year 2023 ran from October 1, 2022, to September 30, 2023. The government was initially funded through a series of three temporary continuing resolutions. The final funding package was passed as an omnibus spending bill, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023.
Budget proposal
The Biden administration budget proposal was released in March 2022.Appropriations legislation
A series of three continuing resolutions were passed to initially fund government operations:- The Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to December 16, which also included supplemental appropriations for aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.
- The Further Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2023 to December 23
- The Further Additional Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2023 to December 30
Congress passed the Act on December 23, 2022, and President Joe Biden signed it into law on December 29.
Provisions
In addition to the 12 annual regular appropriations bills, the Consolidated Appropriations Act has several other provisions, including:- Division M: the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023, including:
- * a section similar to the proposed Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act, a bill allowing the use of assets seized from Russian oligarchs to fund the rebuilding of Ukraine
- Division N: the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023
- Division O: extenders and technical corrections
- Division P: the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, comprising:
- * Title I: the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, the largest reform to the counting of electoral votes since 1886
- * Title II: the Presidential Transition Improvement Act
- Division Q: aviation-related matters
- Division R: the No TikTok on Government Devices Act, a bill banning the use of the video-sharing app TikTok on federal computers and portable devices
- Division S: oceans-related matters
- Division T: the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022
- Division U: the Joseph Maxwell Cleland and Robert Joseph Dole Memorial Veterans Benefits and Health Care Improvement Act of 2022
- Division V: the STRONG Veterans Act of 2022
- Division W: the Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022
- Division X: extension of authorization for special assessment for Domestic Trafficking Victims' Fund
- Division Y: the CONTRACT Act of 2022
- Division Z: the COVS Act
- Division AA: financial-services matters
- Division BB: consumer protection and commerce
- Division CC: water-related matters
- Division DD: public land management
- Division EE: post office designations
- Division FF: the Health Extenders, Improving Access to Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP, and Strengthening Public Health Act of 2022, including:
- * Title II: a funding increase of $1.5 billion to ARPA-H
- Division GG: the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, an [United States United States antitrust law|antitrust law|antitrust] bill that raises acquisition filings fees for large transactions, including:
- * Title III: a title similar to the proposed State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act, an antitrust bill preventing multiple state antitrust lawsuits from being transferred to a separate venue at a company's request
- Division HH: agriculture
- Division II: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a bill to increase workplace accommodations for pregnant workers
- Division JJ: North Atlantic Right Whales
- Division KK: the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act, a bill requiring organizations to provide time and space for breastfeeding parents
- Division LL: the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act
- Division MM: the Fairness for 9/11 Families Act