Congress Passes Omnibus Spending Package for Fiscal Year 2022

On Thursday, March 10^th, the U.S. Senate passed the 2022 Fiscal Year (FY) “omnibus” spending package, sending it to President Biden’s desk one day before the deadline for a shutdown. The bill would provide approximately $1.5 trillion across the 12 regular spending bills, as well as $13.6 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine. Federal agencies have been operating under short-term continuing resolutions that extended FY 2021 funding for more than five months.

• The text of the spending package, H.R. 2471, is available here.
• A full summary of the 12 regular appropriations bills is here.
• A summary of the Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act is here, and a one-page fact sheet is here.

The measure is the first funding package to include earmarks since they were banned in 2011. House members have included 2,727 earmarks totaling $4.2 billion, with Senate aggregate earmark totals yet to be released. The funding package also allows for the full implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), which has been delayed since its passage in November due to repeated continuing resolutions for FY 2022 funding.