Federal Workforce Development Updates with Lee Foley Capitol Hill - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 Federal Workforce Development Updates with Lee Foley – Capitol Hill Partners OCTOBER 16, 2019

2 STATUS OF FY20 FUNDING

3 FY20 budget request  Administration’s FY 20 budget request  Proposes 9.5% cut to domestic programs  12% cut to the Department of Education  19% cut to ETA

4 FY 20 House Budget House Democrats created Provided 5.7% increase or their own budget bill this domestic programs above FY 19. spring – no agreement with Senate on overall funding.

5 FY 20 House Labor-HHS funding New House Labor-HHS Chair – Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) • $11.8 billion increase for Labor-HHS • Passed on party line vote through House

6 House Labor-HHS Bill Department of Labor WIOA +380 million FY 20 House Labor-HHS Adult +$55 million Appropriations bill Youth +$61 million

7 House Labor-HHS Bill Department of Labor Apprenticeships +90 million FY 20 House Labor-HHS New community $150 million Appropriations college grants bill initiative

8 House Labor-HHS Bill Department of Education WIOA Title IV Voc Rehab +88 million FY 20 House Labor-HHS Appropriations WIOA Title II Adult +$30 million bill Education CTE +37 million Increases Pell Grant by $150

House Labor-HHS Appropriations bill 9 House bill will be high point for FY 20 funding this year

10 Unlike the House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to move forward on any appropriations bills until budget agreement put in Senate refused to place. move forward without a budget No Senate appropriations bill has passed on the Senate floor to date.

11 GOOD NEWS – FY20 and FY 21 BUDGET AGREEMENT

12 Budget deal for FY 20 and FY 21 Previous two year budget agreement expired FY 20 – 9.3% below FY Without a new 19 overall domestic budget agreement: funding

Bipartisan compromise - two year deal raises spending caps for domestic and defense programs. Budget deal for FY 20 and Domestic funding increased FY 21 by 4.5% in FY 20 and an additional 1% in FY 21.

However, $15 billion less for domestic programs than in FY 20 House budget Budget deal for FY 20 and Roughly half of this cut will likely FY 21 come from the House Labor-HHS bill.

15 Budget deal for FY 20 and FY 21 ENDS TEN YEAR ELIMINATES BUDGET EXTENDS DEBT “POISON PILL CONTROL ACT LIMIT FOR TWO RIDERS” ON CAPPING ANNUAL YEARS APPROPRIATIONS DISCRETIONARY BILLS SPENDING

16 FY20 FUNDING NEXT STEPS

FY 20 Senate Labor-HHS bill – on 17 hold Republicans tried $5 billion Democrats to mark up bill, but transferred unhappy with got pulled due to a from Labor-HHS overall funding “poison pill” to provide more level – less than amendment from funding for 1% above FY 19 Democrats border wall

Senate Labor-HHS Bill 18 Department of Labor WIOA Level funded FY 20 Senate Labor-HHS Apprenticeships $170 million Appropriations (+10 million) bill New $0 community college grants initiative

19 Senate Labor-HHS Bill Department of Education WIOA Title IV Voc Rehab +88 million FY 20 Senate Labor-HHS Appropriations WIOA Title II Adult Level funded bill Education CTE Level funded Increases Pell Grant by $135

20 Senate has not made progress on FY20 “poison pills” and overall funding for Labor-HHS to mark up its bill in funding – Committee state of play Continuing Resolution passed through November 21 st - Keeping government open a top priority of both parties

21 FY20 Labor-H funding – next steps Little chance for moving controversial FY 20 Senate Appropriations bills to the floor for passage House and Senate leadership are now negotiating top line funding for Labor- HHS and other appropriations bills to prepare for Conference negotiations

22 FY20 Labor-H funding – next steps Senate Labor-HHS Chair Blunt told us - he hopes for $3-4 billion more for Labor-HHS when goes to conference – wants to work with DeLauro to complete bill. DeLauro told us -- Labor-HHS needs at least $5 billion more than in Senate bill needed in conference to craft a bill.

23 FY20 Labor-H funding – next steps As a result, the overall Labor-HHS Conference funding allocation will be the key determinant to completing a bill this year

Options left to resolve FY20 funding 24 Year long Completion of FY Continuing 20 bills with Resolution modest increase for Labor-HHS