2024 NACo Legislative Conference General Session

On April 3, the White House released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget request, outlining the administration's proposals for budgetary spending for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026. The President’s budget requests cutting non-defense discretionary funding by 10 percent, or $73 billion. This budget proposal reflects the administration’s priorities but is unlikely to be passed in its current form and will need to be approved by Congress to be implemented.  

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NACo advocates for the reinstatement of key decennial census testing of rural areas and other planned canceled testing criteria.  

While acknowledging Republican power in the Congress and White House, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer called for the country’s two political parties to work together.