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President’s Budget to be released on February 9, Start of FY 2017 Appropriations Process
The White House announced that it will release the President’s budget request for FY 2017 on February 9. Although the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released no details about the FY 17 budget, the package is expected to stick to the caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending agreed to last year, which would largely freeze FY17 funding at the FY16 level.
The release of the President’s budget will also kick off the FY 2017 appropriations process, which is expected to begin soon in the House. House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) intends to mark up a budget resolution this spring, as Republicans look to get the appropriations process back on track. House and Senate Republicans passed a concurrent budget resolution last year, but the appropriations process stalled as Senate Democrats blocked any individual appropriations bills from coming to the floor. Despite already having top-line discretionary spending numbers for FY 2017, how that spending is allocated among the appropriations bills will be debated.
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