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  1. Please stop publishing leftwing opinion pieces, as "News"

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    Sandra K Howell commented  · 

    Trump administration secretly withheld millions from FDNY 9/11 health program"  
    "Only Congress, not the Executive Administration, can do that."    
    There is no instance when the President can withhold or deny allocated funding, or change the allocation of funds, to any U.S. Federal program." 

    Someone should do at least a minimal amount of research before posting said "journalistic headline news", otherwise your "Headline News" makes your staff appear ignorant.
    A BRIEF GUIDE TO THE FEDERAL BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS
    It is important to remember that the president’s budget proposal is simply a request. It has no binding authority on Congress and is best understood as a detailed statement by the administration of its fiscal goals and policy preferences. Additionally, as the OMB often produces different scores than the CBO, the budget request often has different numbers than those Congress uses to make its decisions.

    "Congressional Budgeting"
    The president’s budget request starts the process, and then Congress responds.
    The first step in the funding process is the creation of a concurrent congressional budget resolution. The budget resolution has one key purpose, which is to set the total level of discretionary funding (known as the “302a allocation”) for the next fiscal year. While the resolution looks at total federal spending over a 10-year window, it is not binding beyond the approaching fiscal year. The budget resolution is both similar to and different from traditional legislation. Like a legislative bill, budget resolutions originate in the relevant committee (in this case, the respective budget committees of each chamber) and must be approved by the whole chamber. Unlike a traditional bill, budget resolutions do not require presidential action and can pass with a simple majority, and the Senate is barred from filibustering votes on these bills. Budget resolutions are supposed to be filed by April 15, although this has been rare in recent sessions. More commonly of late—particularly when the chambers are controlled by opposing parties—each chamber will pass its own resolution, or simply pass a “deeming resolution,” a simple resolution which sets the 302a allocation without advancing a budget. Budget resolutions often include multiple policy proposals, usually along the lines of extending or rescinding various tax provisions, though occasionally as detailed as making changes to the Pell Grant eligibility formula. Due to their non-legislative status, these proposals are understood to be an effort by the majority to send a message about their fiscal priorities.

    "Congressional Appropriations"
    With the 302a allocations determined, the funding process moves to the appropriations committees in each chamber. Long considered one of the most powerful and prestigious committees on which to serve, Appropriations is responsible for determining program-by-program funding levels. This is done through 12 separate appropriations bills, each generated by a specific subcommittee, covering individual federal agencies or groupings of agencies. For example, the bill that covers traditional student financial aid and National Institute of Health funding is the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill, and it covers the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and a handful of small agencies such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The chairs of the appropriations subcommittees, under the direction of the appropriations committee chairperson, divide the 302a allocation among the 12 subcommittees. This allocation provides the total funding pool for each of the appropriations bills, known as the "302b allocation." In simple terms, the 302a allocation represents the size of the whole funding pie, while the 302b allocation is equivalent to the size of one of the 12 slices of that pie.Armed with their 302b allocation, the various subcommittees then divide that funding level among the programs under their authority. This process is accompanied by multiple activities. The most visible are public hearings by the subcommittees, where they invite the secretaries of the various agencies to testify on their budget requests. Simultaneously, legislators and their staff from outside the subcommittees submit requests for funding levels they would like to see, expressing their support for programs. Finally, committee staffers often meet with advocates of the programs to discuss the funding outlook. The subcommittee staff then produces an appropriations bill that is brought to the full subcommittee for a vote. While it is possible to amend a bill in subcommittee, it is not common. If it passes, the bill is then taken up by the full committee, often with several amendments to the underlying bill. This process works in an identical fashion in both the House and Senate. It is not uncommon for the two chambers to have different 302a’s and 302

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