The House has passed a 2020 supplemental operating budget that would increase 2019–21 appropriations from funds subject to the outlook plus the workforce education investment account (NGFO+WEIA) by $1.178 billion. If adopted, revised 2019–21 appropriations would increase by 21.0 percent over 2017–19.

The House- and Senate-passed operating budgets are very similar. Neither would increase taxes or use the rainy day fund. (That said, since passage of the House and Senate budgets, the House and Senate have each passed legislation that would appropriate $100 million from the rainy day fund for coronavirus response.) Both budgets focus on homelessness and human services. Both barely balance over four years. Revised 2019–21 appropriations in either budget would represent the largest percentage increase in at least 40 years (accounting for inflation).

But the House budget would spend more and set aside less for use in future biennia, making it the less sustainable of the two budgets.

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