The

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for

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2021 ran from October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021. The government was initially funded through a series of five temporary continuing resolutions. The final funding package was passed as a consolidated spending bill on December 27, 2020, the

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. The

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was passed as the budget reconciliation bill for FY2021.

Budget proposal

The FY2021 budget is subject to the spending caps of the

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, as modified by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019. The Trump administration budget proposal was released in February 2020.

Appropriations legislation

The drafting of appropriations bills was delayed due to the

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. The House began consideration of appropriations bills on July 6. As of July 22, the

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had completed markup of all 12 bills, while the

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had yet to begin. The House passed the first consolidated appropriations bill () containing four of the 12 bills on July 24. The House passed the second consolidated appropriations bill () containing an additional six bills on July 31. The remaining two bills for

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and the

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were not expected to be voted upon soon after. A

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lasting until December 11, 2020 was passed by the House on September 29, and by the Senate on September 30. However, the bill was not signed by President Trump until shortly after the midnight deadline, as he was returning from a campaign rally in

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late at night, causing a short funding gap of less than an hour. The Senate released drafts of its appropriations legislation on November 10, 2020, starting the legislative process in that house and allowing negotiations to begin. A series of four short-term continuing resolutions were passed during the final stages of negotiation on an omnibus appropriations bill which included supplementary relief funding for the

. The first extended funding for one week through December 18, 2020, the second extended it by another two days through December 20, a third by one day through December 21, and a final one by seven days until December 28. The final bill is the

Reconciliation legislation

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for the 2021 fiscal year began to be considered by the

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in February 2021. As appropriations for the fiscal year had already been approved, the budget resolution's main purpose was to begin the budget reconciliation process to allow a

relief bill to be passed without the possibility of being blocked by a

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. The

was signed on March 11, 2021.

References

External links

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