Senator Bob Menendez has announced the Fiscal Year 2025 Congressionally Directed Spending application process is open. The deadline to submit an application to his office is March 25, 2024.
Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) directs specified amounts of money to state and local governments or to eligible non-profit entities for a specific project at a specific location.
There are no guarantees that CDS requests will be funded. The process in which appropriations bills are considered, finalized, and signed into law can take many months. Even if a project is requested by Senator Menendez and selected by the Senate Appropriations Committee, all CDS funding is contingent upon the enactment of FY25 appropriations bills.
Senator Booker announced his application process last week. Please see the League’s write-up on that application process. The process for the House of Representatives is expected to be announced shortly and we will share information when it becomes available.
Contact: Paul Penna, Senior Legislative Analyst, ppenna@njlm.org, 609-695-3481, x110.