The federal judiciary got none of the $37 million in new emergency relief it requested from Congress to help manage coronavirus-related priorities and received less than what it requested in appropriations to fund operations for the remainder of the current fiscal year.
The judiciary and most other federal programs were caught between a political tug-of-war over what to include in the $900 billion coronavirus relief plan and a separate, $1.4 trillion measure to fund agencies through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. President Donald Trump signed the dual spending package on Sunday.
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