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Federal Budget Update
President Bush proposed a $2.4 trillion fiscal year 2005 budget on February 2, 2004. Under the plan, defense and homeland security would receive larger increases than most other areas. Increases for discretionary spending, which includes many programs supporting children and their families and whose funding must be renewed every year, would average about 1 percent.
Federal fiscal year 2005 began on October 1, 2004. Non-defense government operations were funded at 2004 levels by continuing resolutions until the fiscal year 2005 budget was finalized in early December 2004 with the passage of the omnibus appropriations bill that included all remaining appropriations that had not been signed. Discretionary programs included in the omnibus appropriations bill received a .8 percent across-the-board funding reduction in the final conference report.
2005 Enacted Federal Budget Highlights
Compared to the enacted 2004 budget, the enacted 2005 budget for some children’s programs includes:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Funding for Child Nutrition Programs, 3.2 percent increase, to $11.78 billion.
- Food Stamp Program total appropriation, 13.6 percent increase, to $35.15 billion.
- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program through Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), 12.8 percent increase, to $5.24 billion.
U.S. Department of Education
- The department's total appropriation increases by 1.1 percent, to $67.72 billion.
- Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, .8 percent increase, to $21.71 billion.
- Title I total funding, 2.8 percent increase, to $14.84 billion.
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers, .8 percent decrease, to $991 million.
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, total Parts B, C, and D, 4.6 percent increase, to $11.63 billion.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Child Care and Development Block Grant, $4.80 billion, mandatory component of $2.72 billion funded under continuing resolution.
- Social Services Block Grant, level funded, at $1.70 billion.
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families State Family Assistance Grant, $16.49 billion, funded under continuing resolution.
- Head Start, 1.0 percent increase, to $6.84 billion.
- Medicaid Assistance benefits, 3.3 percent decrease, to $167.01 billion.
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 4.6 percent increase, to $300.16 billion.
- Community Services Block Grant, .8 percent decrease, to $637 million.
For details on enacted funding for a full range of federal programs affecting children, see below.
This Page Last Modified
December 23, 2004
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