IFPTE Requests Congressional Passage of Six FY24 Appropriations Bills
Ahead of a vote in the House of Representatives to pass a package of six appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2024, IFPTE urged Members of the House of Representatives to pass a package of six fiscal year 2024 (FY24) government funding bills Consolidated Approrpations Act, 2024, H. Res. 1061. The House passed the appropriations package with bipartisan support by a vote of 339 to 85.
If passed by the Senate, the package will fund federal agencies and programs covered by the following appropriations bills: Military Construction, Veterans Affairs; Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration; Commerce, Justice, Science (includes NASA, Immigration Court, NOAA); Energy and Water (Army Corps of Engineers); Interior, Environment (EPA); and, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. This appropriations package must be passed before the end of the Friday, March 8, to avert a partial government shutdown. The remaining six appropriation bills must be passed by March 22 to keep all other agencies from shutting down due to a lack of Congressionally appropriated funds.
IFPTE’s letter notes concerns with the overall funding levels in the appropriations package, which follow the agreement set in the Fiscal Responsibility Act debt-budget deal and will constrain federal agencies ability to provide services the American public counts on. the letter also includes IFPTE’s concerns with underfunding of some key agencies and report language in the joint explanatory statement that accompanies the bill that instructs the Executive Office of Immigration Review to implement a performance appraisal system linked to metrics for immigration judges represented by NAIJ-IFPTE Judicial Council 2.