Washington’s state and local governments will have more than $11 billion in federal relief funding to distribute from the ARP Act

By: Emily Makings
1:58 pm
March 16, 2021

There are several funding buckets in the ARP Act. The largest that will be distributed by states and local governments are the fiscal relief funds and the emergency and secondary school emergency relief funds. But there’s also funding for childcare, transit, and rental assistance, for example.

The table below shows known and estimated federal allocations for Washington, across the five major federal relief bills. There are still holes—note especially that the ARP Act includes billions of dollars of funding for public health, but it’s not clear yet how much of that will flow through to Washington.

Based on current estimates, Washington’s state and local governments will have $11.752 billion to distribute just from the ARP Act. That would bring Washington’s total from the federal relief bills to $24.345 billion.

These numbers are just estimates and are not exhaustive. (Note, too, that this does not include direct income support and loans to individuals and businesses in Washington.) If you click on the table below, it will open a spreadsheet with a more complete table and more details. I’ll continue to update the spreadsheet as new information is available. (It can also be found on our COVID-19 page.)

(Previous posts about the ARP Act are here.)

Categories: Budget , Categories.
Tags: ARP Act , CARES Act , COVID-19 , other federal action on COVID-19