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Since 1976, when the United States budget process was revised by the Budget Act of 1974 [1] the United States Federal Government has had funding gaps on 22 occasions. [2] [3] [4] Funding gaps did not lead to government shutdowns prior to 1980, when President Jimmy Carter requested opinions from Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti on funding gaps and the Antideficiency Act.
Those funds are from a $10 million FEMA allocation that allows storm victims grants of $750 for groceries. Biden said Wednesday during an operational briefing on Hurricane Helene in North Carolina ...
Budget sequestration was first authorized by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (BBEDCA, Title II of Pub. L. 99-177). This is colloquially referred to as the Deficit Control. [2] They provided for automatic spending cuts (called "sequesters") if the deficit exceeded a set of fixed deficit targets.
In the United States, government shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the federal government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins. In a shutdown, the federal government curtails agency activities and services, ceases non-essential operations, furloughs non-essential workers, and retains only essential employees in departments that protect human life or ...
The funding package, which includes $40 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund and more than $2 billion for the depleted Small Business Administration loan program, would be delivered to Congress ...
Congress recently replenished a key source of FEMA's response efforts, providing $20 billion for the agency's disaster relief fund as part of a short-term government spending bill to fund the government through Dec. 20. The bill also gave FEMA flexibility to draw on the money more quickly as needed.
FEMA does have a housing program, the Shelter and Services Program, that provides “financial support to non-federal entities to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following ...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package or American Rescue Plan, is a US$1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021, to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. [1]