Deficiency Appropriation in the United States

Deficiency Appropriation in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Deficiency Appropriation in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): An appropriation made to pay obligations for which sufficient funds are not available. The need often results from violations of the Antideficiency Act. Though technically distinct from a supplemental appropriation, Congress has stopped passing separate deficiency appropriations and the distinction therefore has become obscured since the 1960s.

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See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Deficiency Appropriation)
• Public Debt

Further Reading

• Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

  (J Wehner, 2010)

• Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
• Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

  (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)