DE Under 3: Biden "Hits the Brakes" on Non-Defense Discretionary Budgets for Federal Agencies in FY 2025 Budget Proposal
DE Under 3: Big Budget Opponents Again Stop a Final Federal FY 2024 Budget, Congress Keeps Agency Spending to FY 2023 Levels
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Biden Administration: The First 100 Days and Key Developments to Watch
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Jeffrey DeBoer on the intersection of Washington and commercial real estate
Kevin Kelly on Sequestration
Alan Chvotkin on Sequestration
The major calendar year proposed regs are now out, with thousands of pages of text to digest. Since a plethora of issues are embedded in these regs, including the Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and the...more
At midnight on Friday, funding runs out for the remaining six FY 2024 annual spending bills: State – Foreign Operations, Defense, Homeland Security, Labor – Health and Human Services, Legislative Branch, and Financial...more
The 2023 Canadian Federal Budget, released March 28, 2023 (Budget 2023), proposes significant amendments to expand the application of Canada's general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR). These proposals come after the federal...more
On August 7, 2022, the US Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act), a budget reconciliation bill recently introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). The bill...more
On Thursday, March 10, the Senate voted 68-31 to pass the $1.5 trillion FY 2022 omnibus spending bill after months of negotiations. The package, which was passed by the House with strong bipartisan support on Wednesday night,...more
Tax Tidbit - Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Becomes Law. On Monday, President Joe Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which contains $1.2 trillion in funding for traditional infrastructure...more
Following the enactment of the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684) and its signing into law by President Joseph R. Biden this month, significantly expanded federal funding and emphasis is expected in...more
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)which reauthorizes surface transportation funds and allocates $550 billion for new federal spending over the...more
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R.3684) into law. On Nov. 5, the House passed the bill by a vote of 228-206. Thirteen Republicans joined most...more
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, better known as the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill,” into law during a ceremony at the White House. ...more
On August 10, 2021, the Senate passed H.R. 3684, a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill (the “Infrastructure Bill”) that authorizes funds for federal-aid highways, transit, broadband access and other infrastructure...more
Ryan Walker, Senior Vice President of Federal Affairs for Shumaker Advisors, LLC, gives an update on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill and summarizes the spending and “pay-fors,” as well as some of the “issues” Senators are...more
WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK - - Republican Counterproposal. Senate Republicans are crafting a counter-proposal as an alternative to President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan (AJP). The package is expected to cost around $600 to...more
WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK - - White House Selling AJP. As the administration seeks to gain bipartisan support for its American Jobs Plan (AJP), President Joe Biden will be holding a series of meetings with lawmakers to discuss...more
On January 23, Delaware Governor John Carney signed the “Delaware Federal Employees Civil Relief Act” into law. The Act states that its purpose “is to provide for the temporary suspension of judicial and administrative...more
On September 21st the President signed an FY2019 “Minibus” into law (HR 5895) covering three of the twelve appropriations areas – energy and water, MilCon/VA, and legislative branch. The Energy and Water portion funds the...more
The $1.3 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, which was signed into law on March 23, 2018, (the Act) includes bipartisan measures to fundamentally change how the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies pay...more
Congress passed a funding bill early this morning just after the February 8th deadline. The new legislation will make several changes to the Medicare program, delay cuts to disproportionate share hospitals, provide two years...more
On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the most far-reaching tax reform legislation in a generation after Congress approved a short-term spending bill on Thursday, which will keep the government funded...more
Busy January: Congress has left town with a long list of items that it will need to handle in January and throughout the first quarter of 2018. The continuing resolution that Congress just passed only funds the government...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While it always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, the last few months have seen an unprecedented number of changes. May 2017 was no different, with...more
On November 2, 2015, President Obama signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (the “Bill”), which repeals the TEFRA Unified Audit Procedures and replaces them with a radically modified “corporate” model for partnership tax...more
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, signed into law on November 2, 2015, has significantly changed the partnership tax audit rules, effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. Under the current partnership...more
Energy and Climate Debate - In his final major effort prior to retiring last week, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) reached a bipartisan agreement, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, with other House and Senate...more
Employers woke up to a surprise on November 3. That’s when we learned that the Federal Budget Agreement, which was quickly worked out behind closed doors and signed the day before, includes surprise provisions authorizing the...more