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Budgetary Revisions

Floor Speech

Date: April 7, 2022
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, S. Con. Res. 14, the fiscal year 2022 congressional budget resolution, included authority in section 4004 to allow the chairman of the Committee on the Budget to adjust budget aggregates and committee allocations related to program integrity, disaster relief, wildfire suppression, and veterans medical care funding.

H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, was enacted on March 15, 2022, and designates funding eligible for several of these adjustments. Specifically, the bill provides $18.9 billion in budget authority for disaster relief, $2.1 billion in budget authority for program integrity activities to combat waste, fraud, and abuse, and $2.5 billion in budget authority to fight wildfires. Accordingly, I am adjusting the allocation to the Committee on Appropriations and the spending aggregates upward by these amounts and by the amount of outlays flowing therefrom.

Con. Res. 14, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2022) ($ in billions) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Current Spending Aggregates: Budget Authority....................................... 4,146.077 Outlays................................................ 4,500.492 Adjustment: Budget Authority....................................... 23.516 Outlays................................................ 3.046 Revised Aggregates: Budget Authority....................................... 4,169.593 Outlays................................................ 4,503.538 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note: Adjustments reflect H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations

Act, 2022. They exclude $89 million of disaster outlays from H.R.

5305, the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency

Assistance Act. The adjustment for H.R. 5305 was filed on February 8,

2022. REVISIONS TO THE ALLOCATIONS TO THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 (Pursuant to Section 4004 of S. Con. Res. 14, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2022) ($ in billions) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Current Revised allocation Adjustments allocation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Purpose Discretionary: Budget Authority............. 1,498.483 23.516 1,521.999 Outlays...................... 1,679.766 3.046 1,682.812 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note: Adjustments reflect H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations

Act, 2022. They exclude $89 million of disaster outlays from H.R.

5305, the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency

Assistance Act. The adjustment for H.R. 5305 was filed on February 8,

2022.

DETAIL ON ADJUSTMENTS TO THE ALLOCATIONS TO THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 (Pursuant to Section 4004 of S. Con. Res. 14, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2022) ($ in billions) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Detail of adjustments made Disaster Program Wildfire above relief integrity suppression Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Financial Services: Budget Authority........ 0.143 0.000 0.000 0.143 Outlays................. 0.110 0.000 0.000 0.110 Homeland Security: Budget Authority........ 18.799 0.000 0.000 18.799 Outlays................. 0.477 0.000 0.000 0.477 Interior and Environment: Budget Authority........ 0.000 0.000 2.450 2.450 Outlays................. 0.000 0.000 0.841 0.841 Labor-HHS-Ed: Budget Authority........ 0.000 2.124 0.000 2.124 Outlays................. 0.000 1.707 0.000 1.707 Total:.................. Revised 18.942 2.124 2.45 23.516 Discretionary Budget Authority... Revised 0.587 1.707 0.841 3.135 Discretionary Outlays............ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note: Totals reflect H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act,

2022 and also include $89 million of disaster outlays from H.R. 5305,

the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance

Act. The adjustment for H.R. 5305 was filed on February 8, 2022.

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