Congressional Proposals Related to a Lapse in Appropriations
Presentation
Presentation by Justin Riordan, an analyst in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.
Appropriation acts provide authority for federal programs or agencies to incur obligations and make payments. When appropriations lapse, the result is what is commonly called a government shutdown. This presentation briefly describes various legislative proposals related to a shutdown, such as a recently enacted law that pays furloughed federal workers once a shutdown ends and a proposed bill that would keep funding government operations at their current rate during a shutdown.
