Senate Committee Approves FY 2025 Financial Services and General Government
Appropriations Bill
Washington, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Appropriations today approved the Fiscal Year
(FY) 2025 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations Act, providing
support for the administration of the tax code, judicial branch operations, prevention of fraud
against consumers and investors, and construction, leasing, and maintenance of most federal
office space.
The measure, which was advanced by a unanimous vote of 27-0, provides $21.2 billion in
discretionary funding, including $48 million in defense funding and $21.1 billion in non-defense
funding. The bill also includes $492 million in funding provided through the disaster relief cap
adjustment.
"This bill covers a wide swath of federal government funding issues—from anti-terrorism
efforts at Treasury to the operation and protection of the Judicial Branch,” said Senator
Collins. “Given increased threats to Supreme Court Justices in recent years, this bill provides
increased funding for residential security for justices.”
“I’m pleased to see this legislation advance out of Committee after a productive, bipartisan
negotiation,” said Senator Bill Hagerty, Ranking Member of the FSGG Appropriations
Subcommittee. “As Ranking Member of the FSGG Subcommittee, my goal throughout this
process has been to advance the most conservative product possible in the Senate. Although
work remains to continue to improve this bill, I look forward to the upcoming negotiations as
we work to fund the government later this year.”
Bill Highlights:
Department of the Treasury: $14.3 billion, including $12.3 billion for the Internal Revenue
Services (IRS). IRS funding is held flat for the third consecutive year.
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI): $235 million to combat illicit
financing and administer economic and trade sanctions.
Executive Office of the President (EOP): $898 million for the EOP, including $290 million for the
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) and $109 million for Drug-Free Communities
(DFC) programs within the Office of National Drug Control Policy to combat heroin and
prescription opioid abuse.
Evolving and Emerging Drug Threats: $1.2 million to implement response
plans to evolving and emerging drug threats, such as the use of
xylazine as a common adulterant in fentanyl.
Judiciary: $8.8 billion for federal court activities, including timely and efficient processing of
federal cases, court security, and defender services.
Supreme Court Security: $11 million increase above the FY 2024 enacted level for
security, specifically for the residential security of the justices.
Inspectors General: $764 million for ten Inspector Generals to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse.
Presidential Transition: $19 million to ensure a smooth transition consistent with the
Presidential Transition Act.
District of Columbia: $52.5 million for educational improvement in D.C.
Maintains funding for the D.C. Voucher — the only federal voucher program in the
nation.
The Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act is part of a three-part
comprehensive funding strategy to improve educational outcomes in D.C. It also
provides federal educational funds to D.C. public and public charter schools. All three
programs are each funded at $17.5 million.
Maintains Legacy Riders: The bill retains all long-standing FSGG riders.
The report accompanying the bill also includes provisions that:
Encourage the Federal Acquisition Service to take action to ensure that no products
from Lorex, Dahua, or Huawei Technology are included on the General Services
Administration’s (GSA) online shopping and ordering system.
Direct the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) to provide a
report to the Committee on the IRS’ controls to prevent the unauthorized transfer of
sensitive taxpayer data, including by insider threats.
Direct the IRS not to increase audit rates, relative to historic levels, for small businesses
and households with income below $400,000.
Urge the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to issue supplemental guidance to
agencies to develop detailed policies on determining a teleworker’s official worksite for
locality pay. Locality pay was intended to compensate federal employees for difference
in pay relative to similar private sector responsibilities. However, many workers utilizing
remote work may conduct most of their work outside their actual duty station
necessitating a reevaluation of locality pay.
