Before recessing last week, Congress sent President Biden legislation that extends government funding at Fiscal Year 2021 levels for another three weeks, through March 11th. By that date, appropriators need to settle on programmatic funding levels that can pass in Congress—with 60 votes needed in the Senate—in order to fund the government for the remaining 6 ½ months of Fiscal Year 2022. While the leaders of the Appropriations Committees have not said publicly what the Fiscal Year 2022 spending total is, or how it is split between defense and non-defense funding, Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that the agreement “will provide the biggest increase in non-defense programs in four years.”