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On March 15, 2025 President Trump signed into law a continuing resolution (CR) for fiscal year (FY) 2025. This means that Congress will fund the federal government at current, FY24 discretionary spending levels through the remainder of the fiscal year. ...

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On March 22, 2024, Congress passed the remaining six appropriations bills for fiscal year (FY) 2024. The $1.2 trillion package included funding for defense, health, and education programs, among others. The President has signed the bill into law. ...

On March 8, 2024, Congress passed a package of six appropriations bills for fiscal year (FY) 2024. The President has signed the bill into law. Federal funding for FY2024 has been significantly delayed due to disagreement between Republicans and ...

On June 3, 2023, President Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act (H.R. 3476) into law, suspending the debt ceiling until 2025 and setting total defense and non-defense funding levels for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 and FY 2025. While the agreement was ...

On December 23, 2022, Congress passed an omnibus appropriations package for FY 2023 that provides significant funding increases for various research and education programs of priority to the university. With the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act ...

UMD Advances in U.S. News' Ranking of Top Global Universities The University of Maryland ranked No. 12 among U.S. public institutions and No. 57 among top universities from nearly 100 countries in U.S. News & World Report's list of 2022-23 Best ...

The U.S. House and Senate have passed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which authorizes significant funding increases and creates new research programs and research center opportunities through federal science agencies such as the National Science ...

On March 11, 2022, Congress passed an omnibus appropriations package for FY 2022 with strong bipartisan support that provides some significant funding increases for various research and education programs of priority to the university.  The ...

The U.S. House and Senate are working to pass major science and innovation legislation that would authorize significant funding increases and create new research programs and research center opportunities through federal science agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), among others.  The Senate passed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) in June of 2021 and the House passed corresponding legislation, entitled the America COMPETES Act, on February 4th, 2022.