The agreement is the necessary next step after Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed earlier in the year on a $1.59 trillion discretionary spending level for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1. Congress will e...
Government spending cuts are fully implemented in the 2026 fiscal year and further subtract from growth. Overall, our modeling shows real GDP growth of 2.4% in 2025 before slowing to 1.7% in 2026. GDP growth then ranges from 1.9% to 2.1% between 2027 and 2029. Tax cuts, trade deals and...
The directive states that unless the agencies can follow these rules, they should cease to use AI in their day-to-day operations. Several other initiatives have been included in the statement for public safety. For instance, the President’s budget for fiscal year 2025 will have $5 million d...
Its new fiscal year begins on October 1, but the House of Representatives has only passed one of the twelve appropriations bills needed to fund the federal government through that period. Four further fiscal appropriations have been prepared for debate and an eventual vote, but there is no ...
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, “Nonimmigrant Visas Issued Fiscal Year 2022,”https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/AnnualReports/FY2022AnnualReport/FY22_TableXVI.pdf The reintroduction of the domestic visa renewal program after nearly 20 years is a welc...
Best States US Homelessness up 18% as Affordable Housing Remains Out of Reach for Many People Federal officials say the United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of ...
The cybersecurity spending of the Department of Defense (DoD) was not reported since the fiscal year 2022. Overall cybersecurity spending in the United States is projected to increase in 2023 with the total estimated agency cybersecurity funding for that year amounting to 10.46 billion U.S. ...
For more details, seeThe Accuracy of CBO’s Budget Projections for Fiscal Year 2023. CBO published three different discretionary baselines in July 2000. For purposes of evaluation reports, the agency's uses the July 2000 discretionary baseline that assumed “Discretionary Spending Equals CBO’s Estima...
February 23, 2023 Staff Reporter 0 In the year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western democracies have condemned Moscow, slapped wide-ranging sanctions on it, cut back on Russian oil and gas and sent unprecedented amounts of arms and ammunition to help Ukraine defend itself....
Given that agencies are on the clock to adopt zero trust architectures by fiscal year 2025, Fortinet Federal’s Bill Lemons offers tactics federal IT teams can take when addressing the challenges of achieving zero trust in hybrid, multicloud environments. Meet the 2023 Cyber Defenders Award Winners...