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Budget stakes highlighted at Supreme Court hearing in tribal reimbursement dispute
Summary
At oral argument in Becerra v. Upachi Tribe, the government warned that a ruling for tribes could increase annual contract‑support payments by hundreds of millions to billions of dollars, while tribal counsel called the government’s estimates speculative and pointed to the modest dollar amounts in the actual cases at issue.
At the Supreme Court oral argument in Becerra v. Upachi Tribe, budget consequences were a central theme. Government counsel told the justices that, by the government’s internal estimates, adopting the tribes’ reading of the Indian Self‑Determination Act could increase annual contract‑support costs (CSCs) by roughly $800 million to $2 billion, which the government said could force funding tradeoffs because CSCs are paid from discretionary appropriations.
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