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President Joe Biden’s $1.5 trillion discretionary budget request leans on research and development and emerging technologies to help solve contemporary challenges related to the planet, health care and security.
“Our country is confronting historic crises of pandemic and economic downturns, climate change and a reckoning of racial injustice. At the same time, we re also inheriting a legacy of chronic underinvestment, in our view, in priorities that are vital to our long-term success and our ability to confront the challenges before us. So the President is focused on reversing this trend and reinvesting in the foundations of our strength,” U.S. Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Friday after it was released. “This process provides another opportunity to do that, and so the funding proposals are an indication of our priorities.”
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The 1.5 trillion budget would give the Technology Modernization Fund and CISA big increases as well as launch new advanced research projects agencies.
President Joe Biden sent his first discretionary funding request to Congress Friday, outlining a $1.5 trillion spending roadmap that includes cash infusions to the Technology Modernization Fund and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as well as “$750 million as a reserve for Federal agency information technology enhancements.”
This outline, released Friday, previews a fuller proposal coming this spring and includes $769 billion in non-defense discretionary spending a 16% increase from what was enacted in fiscal year 2021, according to the request t
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All but one major agency would see an increase under the president’s proposal.
President Biden’s fiscal 2022 budget request released Friday would boost discretionary spending for nearly every major federal agency, with the majority seeing double digit percentage increases.
The Biden administration’s goal is to reinvigorate civilian programs it believes have long been underfunded. “This moment of crisis is also a moment of possibility,” wrote Office of Management and Budget acting Director Shalanda Young in a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations and Budget committees. “The upcoming appropriations process is another important opportunity to continue laying a stronger foundation for the future and reversing a legacy of chronic disinvestment in crucial priorities. Together, America has a chance not simply to go back to the
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Department still has a long way to go to meet its vaccination goals.
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The Homeland Security Department said it has significantly ramped up its workforce vaccination efforts, announcing this week it has helped 58,000 employees receive inoculations.
The initiative, which DHS has dubbed Operation Vaccinate Our Workforce (VOW), is moving faster after getting off to a slow start. The department announced on Jan. 13 it had partnered with the Veterans Affairs Department to vaccinate its employees, though by early February that had led to just 900 workers getting a shot.