President Joe Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request increases discretionary funding for the Department of Interior (DOI) by $2 billion to $18.9 billion—a 12-percent increase from this year’s enacted spending plan.
Much of that proposed hike chips away at long-lingering deferred maintenance backlogs, beefs up federal wildlands fire-fighting capacities, accelerates water development projects, sustains conservation programs, and streamlines and speeds-up permitting and regulatory reviews by hiring more than 4,000 new staff.
House Republicans, who regained chamber majority during November 2022’s midterm elections after four years of Democrat control, have not organized their own formal budget proposal but have vowed, generally, to significantly slash non-defense spending….
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