Education and Nutrition in the FY23 Omnibus Appropriations Package | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

On Dec. 20, the Senate Appropriations Committee launched the textual content of the $1.7 trillion fiscal 12 months (FY) 2023 omnibus appropriations invoice. The bundle consists of $858 billion in protection spending, a $76 billion or roughly 10% enhance from FY2022 ranges, and $772.5 billion in nondefense funds, a $42.5 billion or 5.5% enhance over FY2022. The Senate handed the omnibus bundle as we speak in a 68-29 vote, sending the bundle to the House for approval as quickly as tonight or early Friday morning. The invoice have to be superior by each chambers earlier than the present persevering with decision expires on Friday to keep away from a authorities shutdown. If handed, the invoice will fund the federal government by September of 2023.

This alert gives a high-level overview of the upper training, early childhood training and diet packages included within the invoice, together with approximate proposed funding degree modifications from FY2022. Overall funding for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies was $209.9 billion—a $14.8 billion or 7.1% enhance from FY2022 ranges. The general funding doesn’t embrace new funding for the implementation of the Biden administration’s pupil mortgage forgiveness plan, or for the Office of Federal Student Aid, because the Department of Education has used present cash within the workplace’s account over the previous 12 months to implement Biden’s plan.