H.R. 1319 — American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA)
Official title: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
117th Congress · Enrolled (enacted, Public Law) · Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), Chair, House Committee on the Budget · reported March 11, 2021 · read the full bill text →
Where the money goes
$912.2B across 34 tracked itemsThe largest verified line-items. This pie breaks down the biggest spending items in the bill — appropriations and mandatory (direct) spending — by category. Every dollar is quoted from the text; click any slice to read them. It is not necessarily every dollar in the bill (the smallest items may not be listed), and figures that aren’t spending — authorizations, guarantee ceilings, pay-fors, and carve-outs already counted — are deliberately left out and disclosed below.
Set-asides (already counted above) — $279.4B
A carve-out or reservation WITHIN a larger line-item already in the pie (e.g. a share of a fund reserved for a specific use). Shown for detail but NOT summed in — its dollars are part of the parent, and counting both would double-count.
- Carve-out of the $219.8B State Fiscal Recovery Fund reserved for the 50 States and DC (NOT additive)$195.3B
- Carve-out of the $130.2B Local Fiscal Recovery Fund reserved for metropolitan cities (NOT additive)$45.6B
- Carve-out of the $219.8B State Fiscal Recovery Fund reserved for Tribal governments (NOT additive)$20.0B
- Carve-out of the $15B Sec. 7301 Payroll Support Program for air carriers (NOT additive)$14.0B
- Carve-out of the $219.8B State Fiscal Recovery Fund reserved for the territories (NOT additive)$4.5B
Every dollar, cited
34 spending line-itemscommunity & regional development$405.0B · 44%
- Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund — aid to States, DC, territories, Tribes$219,800,000,000
“…$219,800,000,000, to remain available through December 31, 2024, for making payments under this section to…”
Title IX — Committee on Finance; Sec. 9901 (adds Sec. 602 to the Social Security Act); subsec. (a) Appropriation - Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund — aid to metropolitan cities, counties, and smaller local governments$130,200,000,000
“…$130,200,000,000, to remain available through December 31, 2024, for making payments under this section to…”
Title IX — Committee on Finance; Sec. 9901 (adds Sec. 603 to the Social Security Act); subsec. (a) Appropriation - FEMA Disaster Relief Fund (incl. COVID-19 funeral assistance)$50,000,000,000→ Federal Emergency Management Agency
“…$50,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, to carry out the purposes of the…”
Title IV — Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Sec. 4005 — Federal Emergency Management Agency appropriation - Economic Adjustment Assistance (EDA) — regional economic recovery grants$3,000,000,000→ Economic Development Administration (Dept. of Commerce)
“…$3,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022, to the Department of Commerce for economic…”
Title VI — Committee on Environment and Public Works; Sec. 6001 — Economic adjustment assistance (Economic Development Administration) - Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund$2,000,000,000→ Eligible revenue-sharing counties and Tribal governments
“…$2,000,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2023, with amounts to be obligated for each…”
Title IX — Committee on Finance; Sec. 9901 (adds Sec. 605 to the Social Security Act) — Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund
education$162.4B · 18%
- Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (K-12 ESSER III)$122,774,800,000→ Department of Education
“…$122,774,800,000, to remain available through September 30, 2023, to carry out this section. (b)GrantsFrom funds…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2001 — Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund - Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF III)$39,584,570,000→ Department of Education
“…$39,584,570,000, to remain available through September 30, 2023, for making allocations to institutions of higher…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2003 — Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund
health$101.2B · 11%
- COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, and mitigation$47,800,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$47,800,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out activities to detect, diagnose, trace, and…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2401 — Funding for COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, and mitigation activities - Defense Production Act — COVID-19 medical supplies and equipment$10,000,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$10,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, to carry out titles I, III, and…”
Title III — Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Sec. 3101 — COVID-19 emergency medical supplies enhancement - Payments to rural health care providers (Provider Relief)$8,500,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$8,500,000,000 for purposes of making payments to eligible health care providers for health care related…”
Title IX — Committee on Finance; Sec. 9911 — Funding for providers relating to COVID-19 (adds Sec. 1150C to the Social Security Act) - Establishing, expanding, and sustaining the public health workforce$7,660,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$7,660,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out activities related to establishing, expanding, and…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2501 — Funding for public health workforce - Grants to community health centers and FQHCs$7,600,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$7,600,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses for awarding grants and cooperative agreements…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2601 — Funding for community health centers and community care - COVID-19 vaccine activities — distribution, administration, tracking$7,500,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$7,500,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out activities to plan, prepare for, promote,…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2301 — Funding for COVID-19 vaccine activities at the CDC - Indian Health Service COVID-19 response$6,094,000,000→ Indian Health Service
“…$6,094,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which—…”
Title XI — Committee on Indian Affairs; Sec. 11001 — Indian Health Service - Supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and medical supplies$6,050,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$6,050,000,000, to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses with respect to research, development,…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2303 — Funding for supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and medical supplies
income security$85.0B · 9%
- Child care stabilization grants to providers$23,975,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$23,975,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2021, for grants under this section in accordance…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2202 — Child Care Stabilization - Emergency rental assistance (ERA2)$21,550,000,000→ Department of the Treasury
“…$21,550,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027, for making payments to eligible grantees under…”
Title III — Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Sec. 3201 — Emergency rental assistance - Child Care and Development Block Grant supplemental funding$14,990,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$14,990,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2021, to carry out the program authorized under…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2201 — Child Care and Development Block Grant Program - Homeowner Assistance Fund (mortgage and housing cost relief)$9,961,000,000→ Department of the Treasury
“…$9,961,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, for qualified expenses that meet the purposes…”
Title III — Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Sec. 3206 — Homeowner Assistance Fund - Emergency Housing Vouchers (Housing Choice Voucher expansion)$5,000,000,000→ Department of Housing and Urban Development
“…$5,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2030, for—…”
Title III — Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Sec. 3202 — Emergency housing vouchers - Homelessness Assistance and Supportive Services Program (HOME-ARP)$5,000,000,000→ Department of Housing and Urban Development
“…$5,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, except that amounts authorized under subsection…”
Title III — Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Sec. 3205 — Homelessness assistance and supportive services program - Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) supplemental$4,500,000,000→ Dept. of Health and Human Services
“…$4,500,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2022, for additional funding to provide payments under…”
Title II — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Sec. 2911 — Funding for LIHEAP
commerce & housing credit$60.9B · 7%
- Restaurant Revitalization Fund grants$28,600,000,000→ Small Business Administration
“…$28,600,000,000, to remain available until expended. (B)Distribution (i)In generalOf the amounts made available under subparagraph…”
Title V — Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Sec. 5003 — Support for restaurants (Restaurant Revitalization Fund) - Targeted EIDL Advance payments to hard-hit small businesses$15,000,000,000→ Small Business Administration
“…$15,000,000,000— (1)to remain available until expended; and…”
Title V — Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Sec. 5002 — Targeted EIDL advance - State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) reauthorization$10,000,000,000→ Department of the Treasury
“…$10,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to provide support to small businesses responding to and…”
Title III — Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Sec. 3301 — State Small Business Credit Initiative - Paycheck Protection Program — additional direct appropriation$7,250,000,000→ Small Business Administration
“…$7,250,000,000, to remain available until expended, for carrying out this section.…”
Title V — Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Sec. 5001 — Modifications to paycheck protection program
transportation$53.5B · 6%
- Federal Transit Administration grants (transit operating and capital)$30,461,355,534→ Federal Transit Administration
“…$30,461,355,534, to remain available until September 30, 2024, that shall— (A)be for grants to eligible…”
Title III — Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Sec. 3401 — Federal Transit Administration grants - Air Transportation Payroll Support Program extension (PSP3) — carriers and contractors$15,000,000,000
“…$15,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out this section.…”
Title VII — Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Sec. 7301 — Air Transportation Payroll Support Program Extension - Relief for airports — assistance to airport sponsors$8,000,000,000→ Federal Aviation Administration
“…$8,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2024, for assistance to sponsors of airports…”
Title VII — Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Sec. 7102 — Relief for airports
broadband$17.2B · 2%
- Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (broadband and connectivity)$10,000,000,000→ States, territories, and Tribal governments
“…$10,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, for making payments to States, territories, and Tribal governments…”
Title IX — Committee on Finance; Sec. 9901 (adds Sec. 604 to the Social Security Act) — Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund - Emergency Connectivity Fund — E-Rate remote learning support$7,171,000,000→ Federal Communications Commission
“…$7,171,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2030, for—…”
Title VII — Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Sec. 7402 — Funding for E-Rate support for emergency educational connections and devices
veterans$14.5B · 2%
- VA medical care and health needs (backlog and COVID-19 costs)$14,482,000,000→ Department of Veterans Affairs
“…$14,482,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2023, for allocation under chapters 17, 20, 73,…”
Title VIII — Committee on Veterans' Affairs; Sec. 8002 — Funding availability for medical care and health needs
other$8.7B · 1%
- Global response to COVID-19 (international assistance)$8,675,000,000→ Department of State / USAID
“…$8,675,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022, for necessary expenses to carry out the…”
Title X — Committee on Foreign Relations; Sec. 10003 — Global response
agriculture$4.0B · 0%
- Food supply chain and agriculture pandemic response$4,000,000,000→ Department of Agriculture
“…$4,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out this section.…”
Title I — Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Sec. 1001 — Food supply chain and agriculture pandemic response
How this was built
Fetched the enrolled XML with python3 requests; extracted faithful text via ElementTree itertext join; located each 'there is appropriated ... $X' top-level line by section, then re-verified every dollar string and <=15-word quote as an exact substring of that text. 39 of 39 sampled figures were re-located as exact strings in the source text. Source: GovInfo enrolled bill text. Full bill text.
ARPA is a budget-RECONCILIATION law: its spending lines read 'In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated ... out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $X' -- one-time appropriations made directly in the statute (CBO scores them as mandatory/direct spending). Per the operative-verb test they are tagged 'appropriation' here; appropriated_total sums only the 34 NON-OVERLAPPING top-level lines (=$912,178,725,534 after the verifier added 5 missed appropriations: airports $8B, vaccine/therapeutics supply chain $6.05B, Emergency Housing Vouchers $5B, HOME-ARP homelessness $5B, EDA economic adjustment $3B). The last 5 line_items are named 'shall reserve $X' CARVE-OUTS that sit INSIDE a parent appropriation (States/DC $195.3B, Tribes $20B, territories $4.5B inside the $219.8B Sec.602 fund; metropolitan cities $45.57B inside the $130.2B Sec.603 fund; air carriers $14B inside the $15B Sec.7301 fund); they are tagged 'set_aside' (corrected by final audit; were mis-tagged 'direct_spending') and are EXCLUDED from the pie to avoid double-counting -- they are the per-recipient money-quotes, disclosed but not additive. ARPA's largest dollar impacts are NOT in the operative text as '$X for Y' lines and are therefore NOT extracted here: the $1,400 recovery rebates (~$410B), extended/expanded unemployment (+$300/wk, ~$200B+), the expanded Child Tax Credit (~$88B) and EITC, and expanded ACA premium subsidies -- these are tax-credit/formula provisions whose figures live in the CBO/JCT cost estimate for P.L. 117-2, not the bill text. Sec. 10003 ($8.675B) uses the hybrid phrase 'there is authorized and appropriated'; classified as appropriation on the 'appropriated' verb. The State/Local Fiscal Recovery, Capital Projects, Tribal Consistency, and provider-relief funds are added as new sections (602-605, 1150C) to the Social Security Act by Sec. 9901/9911 in Title IX (Finance).