Senate appropriators have rejected the Trump administration’s proposed drastic cut in the Army Corps of Engineers civil works program for fiscal year 2020, and instead recommended a sizable increase over this year’s funding level. [View bill summary here.]
Along with the unanimous approval of the bill containing Corps spending, the Senate Appropriations Committee in a Sept. 12 voting session also approved overall allocations for each of the 12 individual fiscal 2020 spending bills and cleared the 2020 Dept. of Defense bill, by slender margins, generally along party lines.