Assistance program
Congressional Directives
$4.0 Billion committed in FY2022–FY2026
- Agency
- Health and Human Services, Department of, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 93.493
- What it does
- To implement special Congressionally directed projects or programs identified in HHS' Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, committee reports incorporated by reference into this Act, and other statutes mandating that HHS provide financial assistance awards to a designated recipient(s) for a particular program, project, or activity. In some cases, Congressional Directives designate geographic areas. Funding priorities are to issue these financial assistance awards to the designated recipients within statutory and regulatory requirements as quickly as possible.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are specified in the authorizing statute.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments