Federal Judiciary Requests Funding Increase Amid Threats

Of the $9.4 billion, the judiciary is requesting $892 million for security, a 19 percent increase from the current level.

The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Court House in Washington on Feb. 19, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The federal judiciary needs more funding, especially amid increasing threats to the institution, a federal judge told Congress on May 14.

Judge Amy St. Eve, who is on the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court, testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government that current appropriations have caused “the deferral of dozens of judicial security projects at a time when threats against judges are increasing.”