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Follow-up on Carter cases and budget allocation
2:42:50
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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about the budget for Carter cases, which has increased to $1.3 billion for fiscal year 2025. The DOE's Chief Financial Officer, Seritta Scott, explains that they closely monitor the situation and make adjustments as needed in consultation with OMB.
- The budget for Carter cases in FY 2025 has already exceeded the actual spending in FY 2024
- DOE is continuously monitoring the situation and will make further adjustments if necessary
- The department maintains ongoing conversations with OMB regarding budget adjustments
Rita Joseph
2:42:50
Just want to do a quick follow-up on your Carter cases.
2:42:54
We will continue to call on that.
2:42:56
In the executive plan, February was added to the Carter case budget bringing it to fiscal twenty twenty five to 1,300,000,000.0.
2:43:04
So fiscal twenty twenty five, you already exceeded the $1.02 1,200,000,000.0 of actual spending in FY '24.
2:43:11
Does DOE anticipate on adding additional funding for Carter cases in this fiscal year?
Seritta Scott
2:43:18
I can answer that one.
2:43:19
So it's something that we definitely closely monitor.
2:43:22
As you can see, there are a number of adjustments made between prelim and exec and if there's any further adjustments that we need to the budget, we'll definitely continue to have our conversations with OMB around it.