Biden Proposes $410M for FCC, $590M for FTC in FY 2024
President Joe Biden is seeking a small appropriations increase for the FCC and a much larger one for the FTC in its FY 2024 budget request, those agencies said Monday. The Biden administration unveiled broad outlines of its FY24 appropriations…
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request last week. Biden proposes giving the FCC more than $410.7 million for FY24, including almost $12.7 million for its independent Office of Inspector General. That’s a 5% increase from the amount Congress approved for the FCC in December as part of the FY 2023 omnibus appropriations package (see 2212230049) and what the White House sought that year. The administration proposes giving the FTC $590 million, a 37% increase from FY23 and more than 20% more than Biden proposed last year (see 2203280069). The FCC noted its budget proposal calls for Congress to extend the commission’s now-lapsed spectrum auction authority “for ten years through 2033.” The mandate expired Thursday amid a Senate-side impasse over a set of dueling legislative proposals to extend the authority. Those negotiations are to continue this week (see 2303100084).