This is a special update on the federal action to raise the nation’s debt ceiling through January 2025.
Announcements
Federal Relations update April 2023
Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request Appropriations Update President Joe Biden recently sent his Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget request to Congress. The $6.9 trillion request includes $841 billion for non-defense discretionary programs (8 percent above …
Post-Election Update: November 2022
Federal Relations Update Mike Lenn, Director of Federal Relations: mlenn@wisc.edu With the results of Tuesday’s election still being determined, Congressional majorities in both the House and Senate are in the balance. The final outcome may …
Federal Relations update August 2022
Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Update The House Appropriations Committee passed all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 spending bills, and 6 of the 12 have passed the full House. House leaders had hoped to pass all …
Federal Relations update April 2022
Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request President Joe Biden recently unveiled his Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget. The $5.8 trillion request includes $769 billion for nondefense discretionary programs (5.3 percent above FY 2022) and $813 billion …
Fusion Day on Capitol Hill with UW–Madison
UW–Madison and SHINE Technologies participated in the annual Fusion Day on Capitol Hill last week. The advocacy day focuses on investment in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Fusion Energy Science program. Wisconsin was …
UW–Madison Releases 2020-21 Research Fact Sheets
The Office of Federal Relations released new research agency fact sheets highlighting just a few of the hundreds of federally-funded research projects taking place at UW–Madison. The university’s annual expenditures exceed $1.3 billion, nearly half …
Government spending bill funds major research initiatives at UW–Madison
The House passed a 2022 spending plan on Wednesday evening, which will fund the federal government through September. The $1.5 trillion-dollar bipartisan appropriations package provides significant funding for University of Wisconsin–Madison initiatives and includes other …
Double the Pell
UW–Madison supports increasing the maximum Pell Grant each year, beginning in federal fiscal year (FY) 2021 and reaching a maximum award of $13,000 by FY 2024.