Last week, President Biden submitted the Administration’s annual budget request to Congress containing recommendations for funding the federal government in the upcoming fiscal year 2023 (FY 2023), which runs from October 1, 2022, to September 30, 2023. As we expected, the President’s budget request includes large funding increases in the enforcement budgets for the agencies responsible for regulating the workforce, including a 36% increase for the Labor Department’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and more than a 10% increase for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Please keep in mind that an administration’s annual budget request is essentially aspirational, and constitutes a wish list of how the President would fund the government if Congress did not have its say. But Congress does have a say, and in the end, it is Congress, not the Administration, that decides on final funding numbers. If history is a guide, there will be significant adjustments to what the President has requested by the time FY 2023 numbers are set.
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