Amid an uncertain and unpredictable federal environment, renewed attention has been given to the funds that states and municipalities receive from the federal government. They provide an important source of support for a wide range of Boston’s city services and constituted 11.2 percent of the City’s all-funds expenditures in Fiscal Year 2024, per the most recent available data.

Over the past five years, the infusion of one-time federal Covid-19 relief funding, which constituted the majority of federal funds expended from FY22 through FY24, has been the major development in the federal funding landscape. These funds have driven overall federal expenditures upwards by $379.9M (207.6 percent) from FY20 to FY24 and will have brought over $1.1B to Boston upon their completion.

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