H.R. 4820 — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
118th Congress · Reported in House (RH) · Rep. Tom Cole (chair, Appropriations subcommittee) · reported July 24, 2023 · read the full bill text →
Where the money goes
$81.2B across 23 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.
Trust-fund obligation limits — $75.0B
Ceilings on Highway Trust Fund contract authority. Real spending, but the figure is a limit and the underlying authority is set in the surface-transportation law, not this bill — so it is disclosed here, not summed into the spending pie.
- Ceiling on obligations for Federal-aid highway/highway-safety construction (Highway Trust Fund contract authority)$60.1B
- Transit formula grants ceiling (Highway Trust Fund Mass Transit Account contract authority)$14.0B
- FMCSA motor carrier safety grants (Highway Trust Fund contract authority)$516.3M
- FMCSA motor carrier safety operations (Highway Trust Fund contract authority)$375.0M
Loan-guarantee ceilings — $950.3B
Caps on NEW loan or mortgage-backed-security guarantee commitments. No cash is spent — the government only backstops private lending — so these are excluded from the pie entirely.
- Ginnie Mae — ceiling on NEW mortgage-backed-securities guarantee commitments (NOT cash outlay)$550.0B
- FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance — ceiling on NEW loan-guarantee commitments (NOT cash outlay)$400.0B
- CDBG Section 108 loan guarantees — commitment ceiling (NOT cash outlay)$300.0M
Every dollar, cited
23 spending line-itemsincome security$54.6B · 67%
- HUD Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (Section 8 housing vouchers)$27,131,600,000
“…et seq.) (in this title the Act), not otherwise provided for, $27,131,600,000 to remain…”
Title II — Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Public and Indian Housing; account: TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE - HUD Project-Based Rental Assistance$15,420,000,000
“…(42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (the Act), not otherwise provided for, $15,420,000,000, to remain…”
Title II — Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Housing programs; account: PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE - HUD Public Housing Fund$8,363,000,000
“…as authorized under section 9(d) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d)), $8,363,000,000, to remain…”
Title II — Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Public and Indian Housing; account: PUBLIC HOUSING FUND - HUD Homeless Assistance Grants$3,729,000,000
“…(42 U.S.C. 11360 et seq.), and for related activities and assistance, $3,729,000,000, to remain…”
Title II — Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Community planning and development; account: HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS
transportation$19.8B · 24%
- FAA operations (air traffic control, safety, navigation facilities)$12,729,627,000
“…the lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, $12,729,627,000, to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration; account: (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) - FAA facilities and equipment$2,972,949,000
“…certification; to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, $2,972,949,000, of which…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration; account: (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) - General-fund appropriation supplementing Federal-aid Highways / Tribal Transportation$1,361,627,349
“…There is hereby appropriated to the Secretary $1,361,627,349: Provided, That…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal Highway Administration; account: (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) - Amtrak National Network grants$776,376,000→ National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) — National Network
“…B of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58), $776,376,000, to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal Railroad Administration; account: NATIONAL NETWORK GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION - FTA fixed-guideway capital investment grants (New Starts)$392,204,000
“…3005(b) of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (Public Law 114–94), $392,204,000, to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal transit administration; account: CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS - FAA Grants-in-Aid for Airports — additional amount for Community Project Funding (earmarks)$303,921,257
“…subchapter 1 of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, $303,921,257 to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration; account: GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS - Federal Railroad Administration safety and operations$273,458,000
“…necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad Administration, not otherwise provided for, $273,458,000, of which…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal Railroad Administration; account: SAFETY AND OPERATIONS - NHTSA operations and research$260,000,000
“…part C of subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code, $260,000,000, to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; account: OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH - Salaries and expenses of the DOT Office of the Secretary$176,859,000
“…For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, $176,859,000 to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Office of the Secretary; account: SALARIES AND EXPENSES - Grants to WMATA for capital and preventive maintenance$150,000,000→ Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) — DC/MD/VA
“…Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–432), $150,000,000, to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal transit administration; account: GRANTS TO THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY - National Transportation Safety Board salaries and expenses$145,000,000
“…by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code, $145,000,000, of which…”
Title III — Related Agencies; National transportation safety board; account: SALARIES AND EXPENSES - Transit infrastructure grants — additional amount for Community Project Funding (earmarks)$130,828,124
“…for projects and activities eligible under chapter 53 of such title, $130,828,124, to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal transit administration; account: TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS - Amtrak Northeast Corridor grants$99,231,000→ National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) — Northeast Corridor
“…22101(a) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58), $99,231,000, to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Federal Railroad Administration; account: NORTHEAST CORRIDOR GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION - Maritime Administration Tanker Security Program$60,000,000
“…as authorized under section 53406 of title 46, United States Code, $60,000,000, to remain…”
Title I — Dept. of Transportation; Maritime Administration; account: TANKER SECURITY PROGRAM
community & regional development$6.2B · 8%
- Community Development Fund (CDBG)$5,554,267,912
“…other entities, for economic and community development activities, and other purposes, $5,554,267,912 to remain…”
Title II — Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Community planning and development; account: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND - HOME Investment Partnerships Program$500,000,000
“…National Affordable Housing Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq.), $500,000,000, to remain…”
Title II — Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Community planning and development; account: HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM - Payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$172,000,000→ Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks America)
“…as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $172,000,000.…”
Title III — Related Agencies; Neighborhood reinvestment corporation; account: PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION - Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant$22,300,000→ State of Hawaii — Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
“…Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4221 et seq.), $22,300,000, to remain…”
Title II — Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Public and Indian Housing; account: NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANT
health$505.0M · 1%
- Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)$505,000,000
“…by the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.), $505,000,000, to remain…”
Title II — Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Community planning and development; account: HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS
How this was built
XML structural parse (title -> appropriations-intermediate -> appropriations-small lead text); each amount hand-verified against source. 8 of 8 sampled figures were re-located as exact strings in the source text. Source: GovInfo bulk BILLS collection (keyless). Full bill text · committee report H. Rept. 118-154.
Bill is a PURE appropriations bill (bill-type='appropriations'): it contains ZERO 'such sums as may be necessary' open-ended authorizations. Every dollar string extracted below is an EXACT substring of the fetched source text (all verification checks pass). THREE distinct funding mechanisms appear and MUST NOT be summed together: (1) 'appropriation' = real budget authority / cash; (2) 'obligation_limitation' = a CEILING on spending of Highway Trust Fund contract authority (the underlying authority lives in the IIJA/surface-transportation authorization, not this bill) — real spending but the figure is a limit; (3) 'loan_guarantee_ceiling' = a ceiling on NEW loan/MBS guarantee commitments with NO cash outlay (FHA $400B, Ginnie Mae $550B, CDBG Section 108 $300M). A naive 'sum every dollar in the bill' would be dominated by the ~$950B of guarantee ceilings that are not spending at all — the single biggest failure mode. Community Project Funding (earmark) accounts (FAA Grants-in-Aid $303,921,257; FTA Transit Infrastructure $130,828,124) give only the ACCOUNT TOTAL in bill text; the per-project earmark line-items live in a table in the accompanying committee report (H. Rept. 118-154), which is a SEPARATE document not parsed here.