Congressionally Directed Spending

To submit a Congressionally Directed Spending request to the Office of Senator Tammy Duckworth for the Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations process, please create an account and complete the application.This link opens in new window or tab. 

The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations has not yet announced a deadline for spending requests as Congress still works to pass a FY2024 budget.

Please note, currently, there is no deadline to submit your application. For more information on the Congressionally Directed Spending process, click here.


The CDS process enables Congress to allocate funding for specific local projects is limited to use by units of government, nonprofit organizations and other organizations that meet strict eligibility requirements. For-profit entities are not eligible to participate. For Fiscal Year 2023, Senator Duckworth and Senator Durbin were successful in securing $182 million for infrastructure, economic development and essential services projects for communities throughout our state. As she has done consistently, in an effort to ensure transparent and equitable consideration, Senator Duckworth will work with an Independent Review Board to examine and evaluate projects. A list of spending requested by Senator Duckworth for FY2024 is available here. 

While the availability of earmarks and rules surrounding them are subject to change each year, click here. to review the Senate Appropriations Committee's transparency and accountability requirements from FY24.

Congressionally-directed spending is capped at 1% of all discretionary spending, and FY25 project funding will be available to a limited number of projects that meet strict eligibility requirements only.

Submission of requests does not constitute a binding commitment on any party nor a guarantee that any organization will be awarded funding from any federal agency through this process. Furthermore, the submission, review, and approval of Congressionally-directed spending requests will be carried out consistent with Federal agency rules and regulations.

Eligible Programs: The Senate Appropriations Committee limits CDS requests to specific programs only. The specific list of accounts and eligible uses under which CDS requests were supported in the process is available here. 

Should you wish to supplement your application with additional material or letters of support, please email CDSAppropriations@duckworth.senate.gov.