On Monday, lawmakers stuck a deal on a $1.37 trillion FY2020 appropriations package, a process that began almost three months ago.  The more than 2,300 pages of bill text have currently passed in the House and are expected to be passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Trump.  

These spending bills will fund the government through October 1, 2020.  The package is separated into two “minibuses,” the first of which contains funding for Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce-Justice-Science and Financial Services, and is slated to receive a total of $738 billion in fiscal 2020 funding.  The second minibus contains funding for the departments of Agriculture, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Energy, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs and State, as well as the EPA, congressional operations and water projects and is slated to receive a total of $632 billion in funding.  These appropriations equates to about 5 percent increase from FY 2019 for the nondefense minibus a 4 percent increase for the defense minibus.