If you would like to apply for Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, please use the link below to start an application. The deadline to submit your CDS application to Senator Booker’s office is Friday, March 17, 2023.
Congressionally directed spending (CDS) directs specified amounts of money to state and local governments or to eligible non-profit entities for a specific project at a specific location.
As you may know, there are no guarantees that CDS requests will be funded. Additionally, the process in which appropriations bills are considered, finalized, and signed into law can take many months. Even if a project is requested by Sen. Booker and selected by the Senate Appropriations Committee, all CDS funding is contingent upon enactment of FY24 appropriations bills.
The following Appropriations Subcommittees will be accepting CDS requests. Each Subcommittee will be funding CDS projects through one or more budgetary accounts, which each have their own specific requirements. Please click on the links below for detailed guidance and eligibility criteria for each account:
Before starting an application, we suggest reading the Frequently Asked Questions page for more information about the CDS process.
Congressionally Directed Spending Requests can be submitted here.
Requests related to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) can be submitted here.
If this is a Military Construction request, please email appropriations@booker.senate.gov with the subject line: MilCon Request.
If you would like to support funding for an existing Army Corps project, please email appropriations@booker.senate.gov with the subject line: Army Corps Project Request.
Disclosures
To see a list of FY 2023 CDS Awards click here, to see CDS projects that Senator Booker recommended for FY 2023 click here.
To see a list of FY 2022 CDS Awards click here, to see CDS projects that Senator Booker recommended for FY 2022 click here.
Programmatic Spending
Programmatic spending items are funding requests for national and regional programs and/or bill report language requesting an Agency or Department to carry out an action.
The deadline for Programmatic requests is March 17, 2023.
Programmatic Spending requests can be submitted here.
Defense Programmatic Spending requests can be submitted here.
Good examples of programmatic requests are funding or language requests pertaining to programs that are included in the President’s budget request.