Lawmakers would provide funding increases to the Departments of Commerce and Justice as well as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under a House spending bill released Tuesday.
The House’s fiscal 2023 Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill includes a total of $85.5 billion, a $7.6 billion increase over the previous year’s level, according to a House Appropriations Committee summary. The measure is set for a subcommittee markup Wednesday, and includes grants for police departments and several initiatives aimed at reducing gun violence, including to incentivize state-level “red-flag” laws.
The Department of Justice would receive $38.1 billion, a $3.3 billion increase. That includes ...
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