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Federal Funding Update: We Live
in Interesting Times
Maryland Senate Budget
and Taxation Committee
January 28, 2015
Federal Funds
Information for States
www.ffis.org
Big Questions
How does FY 2015 budget play out?
 Is there any hope for common ground?
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FY 2016 appropriations
Budget Control Act (BCA)
Expiring programs
Tax reform
Debt limit
But first, the basics
Composition of Federal Outlays in FY 2013
($ in Billions, % of Total)
Per capita federal spending flowing
to Maryland, FY 2013
Source: Pew Charitable Trusts
What program areas are supported by
federal grants to state/local gov’t?
Recent trends in grant funding
$5,000
$0
District of Columbia
Alaska
Wyoming
New York
New Mexico
Vermont
Mississippi
West Virginia
Rhode Island
Louisiana
Maine
Montana
Tennessee
Arkansas
Delaware
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Oregon
Puerto Rico
California
Hawaii
North Dakota
Arizona
Ohio
Michigan
Missouri
Connecticut
Alabama
South Dakota
Pennsylvania
U.S. Average
Idaho
Oklahoma
Indiana
Iowa
North Carolina
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
South Carolina
Georgia
Texas
Maryland
New Jersey
Florida
Nebraska
Washington
Utah
Kansas
Colorado
Virginia
New Hampshire
Nevada
Per capita federal spending on selected
grants, FY 2013
$6,000
$4,815
$4,000
$3,000
$2,000
$1,877
$1,187
$1,000
© 2014 Federal Funds Information for States
Federal grants going to Maryland:
per capita, FY 2013
Major Category
U.S.
Average
Per Capita
Medicaid
Other State
Local
Individual/Other
$852
587
88
344
$695
486
80
279
36
48
24
38
$1,871
$1,540
42
Total
Maryland Maryland
Per Capita
Rank
Conflicts on the horizon
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FY 2015 Homeland Security/immigration
FY 2016 budget; amending BCA
Deficit reduction
Tax reform
Federal workforce
Debt limit
Highway Trust Fund solvency
Expiring programs
The BCA is the law of the land
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Discretionary sequestration persists in form of lower
caps
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Mandatory sequestration still occurs
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Bipartisan Budget Act (BBA) extended it to FY 2023
Repeal unlikely
ATB percentages applied to current-law levels
Defense
Nondefense
FY 2014
-9.8%
-7.2%
FY 2015
-9.5%
-7.3%
The BCA going forward
BCA projections
The Budget Control Act: Sequestration and Discretionary Caps FYs 2013-2021
(dollars in billions)
2013
2014 1/
2015 1/
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Nondefense caps
Sequestration: nondefense discretionary
Subtotal
Change from previous year ($)
Change from previous year (%)
$490.9
-26.4
464.5
NA
NA
$506.0
-14.2
491.8
27.3
5.9%
$520.0
-27.6
492.4
0.6
0.1%
$530.0
-37.0
493.0
0.6
0.1%
$541.0
-37.3
503.7
10.7
2.2%
$553.0
-37.3
515.7
11.9
2.4%
$566.0
-36.3
529.7
14.0
2.7%
$578.0
-35.1
542.9
13.2
2.5%
$590.0
-34.8
555.2
12.3
2.3%
Nondefense, mandatory sequestration
-16.9
-18.1
-17.2
-17.7
-17.4
-17.3
-18.4
-19.6
-19.9
Defense caps
Sequestration
Subtotal
Change from previous year ($)
Change from previous year (%)
552.1
-34.3
517.8
NA
NA
552.0
-31.5
520.5
2.7
0.5%
566.0
-44.7
521.3
0.8
0.2%
577.0
-53.9
523.1
1.8
0.3%
590.0
-53.9
536.1
13.0
2.5%
603.0
-53.9
549.1
13.0
2.4%
616.0
-53.9
562.1
13.0
2.4%
630.0
-53.9
576.1
14.0
2.5%
644.0
-53.9
590.1
14.0
2.4%
$1,039.8 $1,064.7
23.7
24.9
2.3%
2.4%
$1,091.8
27.0
2.5%
$1,119.0
27.2
2.5%
$1,145.3
26.3
2.3%
Total discretionary spending
Change from previous year ($)
Change from previous year (%)
$982.3 $1,012.2 $1,013.6 $1,016.1
NA
29.9
1.4
2.4
NA
3.0%
0.1%
0.2%
1/ FY 2013 discretionary caps reflect FY 2013 appropriations. FY 2013 sequestration includes other adjustments.
2/ FYs 2014 and 2015 subtotals are the revised caps in the Bipartisan Budget Act, which partially reduces the effect of sequestration on discretionary spending.
Source: Congressional Budget Office
Implications of the BCA
Source: CBO Budget and Economic Outlook, 2/14
Expiring programs in an uncertain
environment
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Programs covering all major areas expire in 2015
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Most are mandatory-funded programs
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Require congressional action
Some have been operating under short-term
extensions for years
ACA programs at greatest risk
National funding at stake
Recent and upcoming deadlines
October 1,
2014
• Mandatory
sequestration
• Health insurance
rate review, ADRCs,
College Access
Challenge grants
expired
January 1,
2015
• Medicaid primary
care increase
expired
• No new exchange
grants
• Tax extenders
expired
February
27, 2015
• FY 2015 CR for
Homeland Security
expires
Recent and upcoming deadlines
March 15,
2015
April 1,
2015
June 1,
2015
• Debt limit reinstated
• Qualifying
Individual,
Transitional Medical
Assistance, Early
Childhood Home
Visiting and others
expire
• Highway Trust Fund
(HTF) projected to
become insolvent
• Surface
transportation
programs expire
Recent and upcoming deadlines
July 1, 2015
• Import-Export Bank expires
October 1, 2015
• TANF and related programs
expire
• No new allotments for CHIP
• Many ACA programs expire
• Airport improvement program
expires
• Some child nutrition programs
expire
• Internet tax moratorium expires
More questions than answers
• Will it be total gridlock and if so, how will it
affect states?
Budget
resolution
Debt limit
increase
BCA
Deficit
reduction
ACA
Program
extensions
Tax reform
Questions?
For more information: www.ffis.org,
Trinity Tomsic ([email protected] )