Congresswoman Lee Statement on FY 2020 Spending Bills

Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) - $5 million, $3 million more than FY19 

Child and Adult Care Food Program - $ 1.05 billion, $32 million more than FY 19 

Industrial Hemp Program, - $5 million, $3 million more than FY19 

Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP) - Provides over $17.4M in discretionary funding in addition to $17.5M in mandatory money.  In total, funding exceeds FY19 

National Organic Program - $16 million, $2 million more than FY19 

School Breakfast Expansion Grants - $5 million, first time funded since 2012 

School Breakfast Program - $4.8 billion, $15 million more than FY19* 

School Lunch Program - $12.5 billion, $415 million more than FY19* 

Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program - $20.6 million, same as FY19 

SNAP - $67.9 billion in mandatory spending. $3 billion for SNAP reserve, equal to FY19, but extends availability to 3-years to ensure there is $9 billion in the reserve at any given time. 

Summer EBT - $35 million, $7 million more than FY19 

Summer Food Service Program - $526 million, $7 million above FY19 

WIC Breastfeeding Program - $90 million, $30 million more than FY19 

USDA’s Office of Urban Agriculture - $5 million, first time funded 

1890 Land-Grant Institutions - $67 million for Evans Allen; $40 million mandatory and $5 million discretionary for 1890 Scholarships; $23 million for Education Grants; $20.5 million for Facility Improvements; and $57 million for Extension Services. 

International Trade Administration (ITA) – $521.25 million, $26.25 million above the FY 2019 enacted level and $50.2 million above the President’s budget request. The total includes no less than $333 million for ITA Global Markets, $55 million above the request and $13 million above FY 2019, to help create jobs here at home by increasing U.S. exports. 

Economic Development Administration (EDA) – $333 million, an increase of $29 million above FY 2019. This includes $118.5 million for EDA’s Public Works program, which supports brick-and-mortar projects in distressed communities across the nation, and $33 million for the Regional Innovation Program, an increase of $9.5 million, to help create jobs by establishing and expanding region-focused innovative technology business endeavors. Additionally, $2 million is provided for a new pilot project for STEM Apprenticeships to help align the skills of workers and the needs of employers. The President had proposed completely eliminating EDA. 

Minority Business Development Administration (MBDA) – $42 million, an increase of $2 million above FY 2019, is provided for MBDA to support minority businesses around the country. The President proposed reducing support for minority businesses through MBDA by $30 million. 

Census Bureau – The bill provides $7.56 billion in new discretionary funding, an increase of more than $3.7 billion above FY 2019 and $1.4 billion above the President’s budget request, to enable the Bureau to effectively prepare for and conduct a thorough and accurate 2020 Decennial Census.  

NOAA Climate Research — $169.5 million, an increase of $10.5 million above FY 2019 and $82 million above the President’s budget request. Additionally, an increase of $14 million is provided to expand supercomputing and cloud computing capacity for climate and weather research. 

NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS) – $599 million for NOS operations, an increase of $17 million above FY 2019, including $33 million for the National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund (an increase of $3 million, or 10%); a $1 million increase for the Marine Debris program; a $1.9 million increase for the Coral Reef Program; and a new dedicated carve out of $10 million for research to combat harmful algal blooms. 

National Weather Service — $1.07 billion for operating expenses, an increase of $45 million above FY 2019. In addition, this Act fully funds efforts to procure future weather satellites, which are essential for accurate weather forecasting. 

Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016 —$13.5 million is provided, as authorized under the Act, including: $5 million within the Civil Rights Division; $5 million within the Federal Bureau of Investigation; $1.5 million within the Community Relations Service; and $2 million within State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance. 

Legal Orientation Program – $18 million is provided, an increase of $6.6 million above FY 2019, for this program that helps individuals navigate their way through immigration court processes. Within the total, $3 million is provided for the Immigration Help Desk. 

Federal Bureau of Investigation – $9.95 billion, an increase of $376 million above the FY 2019 enacted level and $644 million above the President’s budget request. 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) – $1.4 billion, an increase of $83.3 million above the FY 2019 enacted level and $31.6 million above the President’s budget request. 

Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) – $7.78 billion, an increase of $264 million above the FY 2019 enacted level and $617 million above the President’s budget request, including $75 million, as authorized under the First Step Act of 2018, to expand and develop opportunities for incarcerated individuals to participate in evidence-based, recidivism-reducing programming and productive activities. 

Grants to State and Local Law Enforcement – $3.28 billion is provided, an increase of $245.5 million above FY 2019. This includes: $547.2 million for Byrne JAG; $340 million for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program; $180 million to address sexual assault kit and other DNA evidence backlogs; $90 million for Second Chance Act programs; $378 million for grant programs to address the opioid crisis; $125 million for the STOP School Violence Act; $502.5 million for Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) programs; and $78.3 million for grants to improve the NICS firearms background check system. 

$1.97 billion for Earth Science, an increase of $40 million above the FY2019 enacted level and $192 million above the President’s budget request, to enable better scientific information about the Earth and its changing climate, and rejecting cuts proposed by the Administration aimed at eliminating climate science missions.  

$120 million for NASA’s STEM Engagement educational efforts, an increase of $10 million above FY 2019, to enable NASA to inspire young people to pursue future careers in science and engineering. This amount includes funding increases for the Space Grant program, Minority University Research and Education Project, and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCOR). The President had proposed eliminating all funding for STEM Engagement. 

NSF Research and Related Activities — $6.74 billion is provided, an increase of $217.2 million above FY 2019 and $1.07 billion above the President’s budget request. 

$10 million to establish a new Office of Immigration Detention Ombudsman with responsibility for receiving, investigating, and resolving complaints regarding misconduct by DHS personnel and violations of the rights of individuals in DHS custody, including through unannounced inspections of detention facilities; and 
  

$20.3 million for the Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention, including $10 million to be transferred to FEMA for a related grant program. 

$104 million for 800 new positions in the Office of Field Operations, including 610 additional Officers and Agriculture Specialists; 

When combined with fee funding, this will allow CBP to hire up to 1,200 new CBP Officers and 240 new Agriculture Specialists during FY 2020; 

$16 million for opioid equipment and staffing at international mail and express consignment facilities; 

$222 million for new border security and trade and travel technology; 

$198 million for additional air and marine assets, to include three multi-enforcement aircraft, one above the request; 

$3.96 billion for Border Security Operations, $73.7 million above the FY2019 enacted level and $110.3 million below the President’s budget request, including $203 million in emergency funding as follows: 

$173 million for humanitarian care of individuals in CBP custody; and 

$30 million for critical life and safety repairs and maintenance at existing Border Patrol Facilities and for improvements to closed caption video systems; 

$30 million for a DHS-wide electronic health records capability; and 

$1.375 billion for fencing along the southwest border, $3.625 billion below the request. 

$2.04 billion for investigations with cross-border nexus, including those related to human trafficking, financial crimes and cyber investigations, including: 

$4 million increase for the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative Child-Rescue Corps. 

$4.4 billion for Enforcement and Removal Operations, $155.2 million above the FY2019 enacted level and $765 million below the President’s budget request, including: 

$3.14 billion for Custody Operations, $28.3 million below the FY2019 enacted level and $549.1 million below the President’s budget request; and 

$319 million for Alternatives to Detention, $44.6 million above the FY2019 enacted level, including $15 million for family case management and $4 million for an independent review of the program. 

Limited transfer authority for immigration detention so that ICE cannot continue to terrorize our communities 

$319 million dollars allocated to alternatives to detention. This is an increase of 44 million from FY 2019 

Bars ICE enforcement against sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children 

No increase in detention beds for ICE- kept at 2019 levels 

Members of Congress have access to detention facilities without notice 

Funding for Construction is $2.68 billion, an increase of $498 million above the fiscal year 2019 level and $1.37 billion above the request. 

Funding for Operation and Maintenance is $3.79 billion, an increase of $1.86 billion above the request. 

Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund projects receive $1.63 billion, an increase of $665 million above the request. This exceeds the target set by the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014, and represents 91.5 percent of estimated revenues compared to the fiscal year 2020 target of 80 percent.  

The bill makes full use of the estimated receipts and some additional prior year revenues for the Inland Waterways Trust Fund. 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy – Provides $2.79 billion, an increase of $411 million above the fiscal year 2019 level and $2.5 billion above the request.  This funding provides for clean, affordable, and secure energy and ensures American leadership in the transition to a global clean energy economy. 

Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response – Provides $156 million, an increase of $36 million above the fiscal year 2019 level.  This funding provides for efforts to secure the nation’s energy infrastructure against all hazards, reduce the risks of and impacts from cybersecurity events, and assist with restoration activities. 

Electricity – Provides $190 million, an increase of $34 million above the fiscal year 2019 level and $7.5 million above the request.  This funding will advance technologies to increase the resiliency and efficiency of the nation’s electricity delivery system with capabilities to incorporate growing amounts of clean energy technologies. 

Nuclear Energy – Provides $1.49 billion, an increase of $167 million above the fiscal year 2019 level and $669 million above the request.  This funding invests in activities to further improve the safety and economic viability of our current reactor fleet, develop the next generation of clean and safe reactors, and establishes an advanced reactors demonstration program.  

Fossil Energy Research and Development – Provides $750 million, $188 million above the request.  This funding provides for research, development, and demonstration activities to ensure the safe, efficient, and environmentally sound use of fossil energy resources. 

Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) – Includes $262 million, an increase of $12 million above FY 2019 and $248 million more than the President’s budget request. Within the total, funding is included for two new programs: $5 million for a new Small Dollar Loan Program and $2 million for the Economic Mobility Corps. 

$22 million for Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI)  

Election Assistance Commission – Includes $425 million for a new round of election security grants to improve the security and integrity of elections for Federal office. Also includes $15.2 million for EAC operating expenses, an increase of $6 million above FY 2019, to restore staffing and other resources to enable the EAC to improve their support to states in advance of the 2020 elections and beyond. 

Taxpayer Services: $2.51 billion, an increase of $20 million above the FY 2019 level. Grant programs funded within the total include: 

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, $25 million, an increase of $7 million; 

Tax Counseling of the Elderly, $11 million, an increase of $1.1 million; 

Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Grants, $12 million, equal to FY 2019; and 

National Taxpayer Advocate, $209 million, an increase of $2 million. 

District of Columbia – $714.3 million, $11 million below the FY2019 level and $2.3 below the President’s budget request.  

D.C. Resident Tuition Support – Rejects the President’s proposal to terminate the program and includes $40 million, equal to the FY 2019 level. 

HIV/AIDS Testing and Treatment – Includes $4 million, an increase of $1 million above the FY 2019 level. 

Includes $2 million for implementation of the Civil Rights Cold Case Record Collections Act of 2018. 

Includes $261 million for Entrepreneurial Development Programs, an increase of $13.3 million above the FY 2019 level, including: 

$135 million (a $4 million increase) for Small Business Development Centers; 

$22.5 million (a $4 million increase) for Women’s Business Centers; 

$34.5 million (a $3.5 million increase) for Microloan Technical Assistance; and 

$19 million (a $1 million increase) for the State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) program. 

$1.4 billion for the Bureau of Land Management, $24 million above the 2019 enacted level and $182 million above the President’s budget request. Within this amount, the bill includes: 

$72 million for sage-grouse conservation, $4 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $28 million above the President’s budget request. 

$1.6 billion for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, $66 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $316 million above the President’s budget request. Within this amount, the bill includes: 

$266 million for Ecological Services, $14 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $26 million above the President’s budget request. 

$502 million for National Wildlife Refuge System, $14 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $7 million below the President’s budget request. 

$68 million for State and Tribal Wildlife Grants, $3 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $36 million above the President’s budget request. 

$3.38 billion for National Park Service, $155 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $636 million above the President’s budget request. Within this amount, the bill includes: 

$2.58 billion for Operation of the National Park System, $74 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $151 million above the President’s budget request. Within this amount, $3.3 million is provided for the 400 Years of African-American History Commission and $3.3 million is provided for the Semiquincentennial Commission. 

$71 million for National Recreation and Preservation, $7 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $39 million above the President’s budget request. 

$119 million for the Historic Preservation Fund, $16 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $86 million above the President’s budget request. Within this amount, the bill includes $66 million for State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices, $16 million for Save America’s Treasures grants, $18 million for competitive grants to preserve the sites and stories of underrepresented community civil rights, and $10 million for grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 
 

$26 million for Alameda, CA—Outpatient Clinic and National Cemetery 

American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) – The bill includes $84.1 million for ABMC, an increase of $9 million over the fiscal year 2020 budget request. These funds will support unfunded requirements for high-priority projects. 

VA Medical Care – The bill funds VA medical care at $80.2 billion – providing for approximately seven million patients to be treated in fiscal year 2020. Within this total, funding includes: $9.4 billion in mental healthcare services; $222 million in suicide prevention outreach activities; $585 million for gender-specific care for women; $1.8 billion for homeless assistance programs; $402 million for opioid abuse prevention; and $300 million in rural health initiatives. 

VA Electronic Health Record – The bill contains $1.5 billion to continue implementation of the VA electronic health record system. This will ensure the implementation of the contract creating an electronic record system for VA that will be interoperable with the same system being developed for DOD. These two identical systems will ensure our Veterans get proper care, with timely and accurate medical data transferred between VA, DOD, and the private sector. The agreement also continues GAO oversight of this program to ensure that the EHR system is implemented in a timely manner. 

Homeless Assistance - the agreement provides $1,847,466,000 for homeless assistance programs, which is $28,932,000 above the budget request. This includes $380,000,000 for the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program; $408,300,000 for the Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-V ASH) program case management; $250,000,000 for the Grant and Per Diem Program; and $69,107,000 for the Veterans Justice Outreach Program. 

Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) - The agreement provides for at least $380,000,000 in grant awards in fiscal year 2020 and encourages the Department to plan for $400,000,000 in fiscal year 2021 to expand to other locations to address gaps in services, as appropriate. 

 Additional Items – The bill does not include backfill or pre-backfill of the border wall. 

$9.3 billion for the Employment Training Administration, $178 million above the 2019 enacted level and $1.4 billion above the President’s budget request. Within this amount, the bill includes: 

$2.8 billion for Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Grants, $30 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and President’s budget request. 

$98 million for the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders, an increase of $5 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $20 million above the President’s budget request. 

$175 million for Registered Apprenticeships, an increase of $15 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and the President’s budget request. 

$95 million for YouthBuild, an increase of $5 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $10 million above the President’s budget request. 

$1.7 billion for Job Corps, $25 million above the 2019 enacted level and $728 million above the President’s budget request. 

$242 million for the Wage and Hour Division, an increase of $13 million above the 2019 enacted level and $9 million above the President’s budget request. 

National Institutes of Health (NIH)- The bill provides a total of $41.7 billion for NIH, an increase of $4.4 billion above the enacted level and $16.8 billion above the president’s budget request 

$2.8 billion for Alzheimer’s disease research 

$3.1 billion for HIV/AIDS research 

$195 million for the Cancer Moonshot research initiative 

$75 million for Research Centers in Minority Institutions 

For the first time in more than 20 years, the bill includes funding – $12.5 million – to specifically support firearm injury and mortality prevention research. 

The bill provides increases for numerous public health efforts, including: 

$140 million to support CDC’s efforts to reduce new HIV infections by 90 percent in 10 years. 

$10 million for the establishment of a suicide prevention program. 

$230 million, an increase of $20 million, to address tobacco and e-cigarettes. 

$27 million, an increase of $2 million, for the Diabetes Prevention Program. 
  

K-12 Education – Overall, the bill provides $40.1 billion for K-12 education programs, including the Individuals with Disabilities Act, an increase of $1.2 billion above the 2019 enacted level and $5.9 billion above the President’s budget request. Of this amount, the bill includes: 

$16.3 billion for Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies, an increase of $450 million above the 2019 enacted level and the President’s budget request. 

$20.1 million for Special Olympics education programs, an increase of $2.5 million above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget initially proposed to eliminate this program. 

$1.2 billion for Student Support and Academic Enrichment State Grants, an increase of $40 million above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget proposed to eliminate this program. 

$65 million within the Education Innovation and Research program for grants to expand opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), including computer science, an increase of $5 million above the 2019 enacted level. 

Student Financial Assistance – The bill provides $24.5 billion for Federal student aid programs, $75 million above the 2019 enacted level and $1.5 billion above the President’s budget request. Within this amount, the bill provides:  

$6,345 for the maximum Pell Grant, an increase of $150 over the 2019 enacted level and the President’s budget request. The increase will help the maximum award keep pace with inflation. 

Higher Education – The bill provides $2.5 billion for higher education programs, an increase of $163 million above the 2019 enacted level and $941 million above the President’s budget request. 

Within this amount, the bill provides $760 million, an increase of $93 million over the 2019 enacted level and $220 million over the President’s budget request, to assist primarily Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in the Aid for Institutional Development account, including: 

$325 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, an increase of $42 million above the 2019 enacted level and the President’s budget request. 

$143 million for Hispanic Serving Institutions, an increase of $19 million above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget proposes to consolidate this and other MSI programs into a single MSI grant program, which the bill rejects. 

$1.1 billion for Federal TRIO programs, an increase of $30 million above the 2019 enacted level and $140 million above the President’s budget request. 

$365 million for GEAR UP, an increase of $5 million above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget proposed to consolidate the program into the TRIO programs. 

$615 million for the Members Representational Allowance (MRA), the basic office budgets of House Members – $41 million more than FY 2019. In addition to bringing appropriations into line with currently authorized spending, this funding is estimated to support an increase of roughly $55,000 per Member office for 2020. 

$11 million in funding for paid interns, increasing the allowance for paying interns from $20,000 to $25,000 per Member office and extending the program to leadership offices. This allowance helps extend internship opportunities to people who may not be financially able to take an unpaid position. 

$160 million for the operations of House committees, a $9 million increase.  This appropriation will cover the funding allocated to committees for 2020 by the biennial funding resolution adopted by the House in March, which is 3.5 percent above the level allocated in 2018. The bill includes funding to support the extension of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. 

$232 million for the salaries and expenses of House officers and employees, including the Clerk of the House, the Sergeant at Arms, the Chief Administrative Officer, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Office of Whistleblower Ombudsman among others. This total is $12 million above the FY 2019 level.  Most of the increase is targeted to information technology (IT) and security needs. 

$6 million for the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, maintaining last year’s increased level, to enforce legal rights and protections in the Legislative Branch, including laws against discrimination and sexual harassment. 

$55 million for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a $4 million increase over FY 2019. This funding level will allow CBO to continue and modestly increase its efforts to improve modeling and analytical capability in key areas and to make its work as transparent and accessible as possible. 

$630 million for the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a $40 million increase. This level should allow the GAO to sustain fiscal year 2019 increases in staffing to handle its large workload and strengthen its Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics (STAA) team. 

$696 million for the Architect of the Capitol, $38 million less than the fiscal year 2019 total. Funding needs and schedules for several projects have changed since submission of the fiscal year 2020 budget, leading to a decrease in project funding. Priority is given to funding for project management to ensure that adequate oversight is exercised. 

$464 million for the Capitol Police, $8 million more than the FY 2019 total. This increase will help cover the cost of operations to support the national party conventions next year and dignitary protection, as well as meeting current operational needs. 

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Operations – The bill provides $1.66 billion in total funding for USAID and the USAID Office of Inspector General, which is $146.6 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $118 million above the President’s budget request.  

Bilateral Economic Assistance – The legislation contains a total of $26 billion for bilateral assistance to foreign countries and prioritizes development assistance, democracy, global health, and humanitarian assistance.  

This includes $9.1 billion for Global Health, $3 billion in Economic Support Fund, and $3.4 billion in Development Assistance, which is a $400 million increase over last year. 

$5.9 billion for PEPFAR, $210 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $1.6 billion above the President’s budget request. This includes $1.56 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, $602 million above the President’s budget request, maintaining U.S. leadership during the sixth replenishment. 

The bill reinforces the United States’ commitment to its 33% share to the Global Fund, unlike the President’s budget request, which proposes reducing U.S. contributions to 25%. 

$3.2 billion for programs to improve maternal and child health and fight infectious diseases, which is $45 million above the 2019 enacted level and $1.1 billion above the President’s budget request. This also includes $575 million for family planning programs, and increases funds for the following programs: 

$851 million for Maternal and Child Health, which is $16 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level, and includes $290 million for the GAVI Alliance; 

$310 million to fight tuberculosis, which is $8 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level; 

$770 million to combat malaria, which is $15 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level; and 

$150 million for nutrition programs, which is $5 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level. 

$7.8 billion, which is $9.2 million above fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $1.5 billion above the President’s budget request.  This includes: 

International Disaster Assistance (IDA)—$4.4 billion, which is $10 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level. 

Refugee Assistance (MRA) —$3.43 billion, which is level to the fiscal year 2019 enacted level. 

$410.5 million for the Peace Corps, which is equal to the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $14.3 million above the President’s budget request. 

$300 million for the NED, which is $120 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $232.7 million above the President’s budget request. 

$905 million for the MCC, which is equal to the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $105 million above the President’s budget request. 

The U.S. African Development Foundation - $33 million, which is $3 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level; 

The Inter-American Foundation - $37.5 million, which is $15 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level, including $10 million for programs in the Northern Triangle countries; 

U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) - $45 million, which is $6.4 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level; and 

Department of Transportation (DOT) – The bill provides $86.2 billion in total budgetary resources for DOT, $324.9 million below the 2019 enacted level and $3.3 billion above the President’s budget request. Of this amount, the bill includes: 

$1 billion for National Infrastructure Investments (TIGER/BUILD), $100 million above the 2019 enacted level and equal to the President’s budget request. The bill ensures parity between urban and rural awards. 

$2 billion for Capital Investment Grants, $575 million below the 2019 enacted level and $473 million above the President’s budget request. 

$510 million for Transit Infrastructure Grants, $190 million below the 2019 enacted level and $10 million above the President’s budget request. This amount includes $75 million for low- and no-emission buses, and $8.5 million for areas of persistent poverty. 

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) – The bill provides a total of $49.1 billion for HUD, $4.9 billion above the 2019 enacted level and $12.4 billion above the President’s budget request. FHA and GNMA receipts are $7.4 billion, $2.1 billion less in receipts than the 2019 enacted bill. Of the $49.1 billion, the bill includes: 

$23.9 billion for Tenant-based Rental Assistance, $1.3 billion above the 2019 enacted level and $1.6 billion above the President’s budget request. 

$2.9 billion for the Public Housing Capital Fund, $94.9 million above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget request proposed eliminating this program. 

$4.5 billion for the Public Housing Operating Fund, $104 million below the 2019 enacted level and $1.7 billion above the President’s budget request. 

$175 million for the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, $25 million above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget request proposed eliminating this program. This is the highest funding level in the program’s history. 

$410 million for Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS, $17 million above the 2019 enacted level and $80 million above the President’s budget request. This is the highest funding level in the program’s history. 

$3.4 billion for Community Development Block Grants, $100 million above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget request proposed eliminating this program. 

$1.35 billion for the HOME Investment Partnership Program, $100 million above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget request proposed eliminating this program. 

$36 million for Section 4 Capacity Building, $1 million above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget request proposed eliminating this program.  

$2.8 billion for Homeless Assistance Grants, $141 million above the 2019 enacted level and $178.4 million above the President’s budget request. 

$12.6 billion for Project-Based Rental Assistance, $823 million above the 2019 enacted level and $550 million above the President’s budget request. 

$3.8 million for the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, $200,000 above the 2019 enacted level. The President’s budget request proposed eliminating this program. 

Technical Assistance for Persistent Poverty Communities: $8.5 million in Transit Infrastructure Grants.