March 11, 2022
The Congress approved final, FY 2022 funding discretionary funding of the Federal Government, with more than $1.5 trillion allocated among all Federal agencies. This is about an $88 billion, 6% increase over FY 2021.
Defense receives about $42 billion of the discretionary funding increase, with all other agencies (i.e., non-Defense) receiving the remaining $46 billion of increases.
Within the non-Defense discretionary funding increases, there are a lot of 'winning' budget line-items.
The following are some examples of the largest increases either in dollar or percentage terms:
Agency | Line Item | $ Increase | % Increase |
Transportation | Highway Grants | + $11.55 billion | + 23.5% |
Transportation | Transit Grants | + $2.77 billion | + 20.8% |
HUD | Community Development Activities | + $1.37 billion | + 39.3% |
DHS | Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) | + $569 million | + 28.1% |
State | Bilateral Economic Assistance | + $640 million | + 18.3% |
HHS | ARPA - H (new program) | + $1 billion | --- |
Education | School Safety - National Activities | + $95 million | + 89.6% |
Legislative Branch | All | + $619 million | + 11.7% |
Justice | State & Local Law Enforcement Activities | + $356.4 million | + 12.1% |
EPA | Environmental Compliance & Enforcement | + $88.5 million | + 25.2% |
Energy | Office of Electricity | + 65.3 million | + 30.8% |
Commerce | National Institute of Standards & Technology | + $195.6 million | + 18.9% |
FEMA | Disaster Relief Fund | + $1.66 billion | + 9.7% |
Energy | Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy | + $336.0 million | + 11.7% |
State | International Economic Support Fund | + $947.0 million | + 30.0% |
Education | Local Education K-12 Grants | + $1.0 billion | + $5.8% |
HUD & Agriculture | Rental Assistance | + $1.63 billion | + 6.0% |
HHS | CDC | + $582 million | + 7.4% |
Interior | Ocean Energy Management | + $36 million | + 28.2% |
HUD | Housing Grants - Persons with Disabilities | + $125 million | + 55.1% |
