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President Joe Biden released his Fiscal Year 2024 budget March 9 that requests $7.41 billion for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Civil Works program. That number is up from FY23's request of $6.6 billion and represents the largest president's budget request for the Corps in recent years. However, at the press conference announcing the budget, Chief of Engineers Gen. Scott Spellmon said that he did not submit a request to the assistant secretary of the Army-civil works for any funding from the approximately $125 million available annually in the Inland Waterways Trust Fund because the Corps "does not have any capability" to use it due to its work on ongoing projects funded via the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. He said the Corps will focus on completing current projects and looks forward to accessing the IWTF in the future. |