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Lawmakers released the second appropriations package just before 3am ET Thursday, including funding levels for the FCC and FTC for the rest of the fiscal year.
The big picture: Congress is staring down a Friday night deadline to avoid a partial shutdown.
What's inside: The final FY24 minibus includes six bills and clocks in at over 1,000 pages. Here's the topline numbers for tech policy you need to know:
- $425.7 million for the FTC, $4 million less than last year
- $390.2 million for the FCC, the same as FY23
- $741.6 million for DHS' Science and Technology Directorate, nearly $160 million below last year's level
- $148.3 billion for the Pentagon's research, development, test and evaluation funding. That's $8.6 billion above last year's level, when the DOD accounted for almost half of all federal R&D funding.
