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The method for funding federal programs can seem extremely convoluted to the casual observer. This brief guide is designed for non-experts as an overview of the federal budget and appropriations process and terminology.
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Letter from 72 organizations urging Senate appropriators to reject any further cuts to Pell Grants when they mark up their FY 2018 Labor, Health, Human Services and Education spending bill.
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Letter to Appropriations Committee Chair Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) and Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY) regarding the FY 2018 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations bill currently under consideration.
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Letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, expressing strong opposition to the Trump administration’s proposed $7.2 billion spending cut for the National Institutes of Health for FY 2018.
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Letter from ACE and 33 other higher education associations to the leaders of the House and Senate budget and appropriations committees, asking them to maintain Congress’s “historic commitment” to student financial aid and scientific research as they begin work on funding the federal government for FY 2018.
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The president's $4.1 trillion budget proposal for FY 2018 makes deep cuts to higher education, which ACE President Molly Corbett Broad said in a statement would have a crushing impact on low-income and working-class Americans.
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Congressional negotiators have reached an agreement on a $1 trillion-plus spending bill that would fund the federal government for the remainder of FY 2017.