What is a Supplemental [Funding Request]?

What is a Supplemental [Funding Request]?

Congress occasionally considers legislation that adds money for specific reasons outside of regular appropriations acts and usually after the fiscal year has begun. These pieces of special legislation are called supplementals. They supplement the original...
What is a Supplemental [Funding Request]?

Congressional Budget Timeline

As Congress struggles to address government funding for Fiscal Year 2024 (and we are almost half way through that fiscal year), it is about to start considering the Fiscal Year 2025 budget as well. The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (Public Law 13, 67th Congress,...
What is a Supplemental [Funding Request]?

Important Health Care Benefit Update

One of the little known provisions in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act is tucked away in section 702. It’s so small; anyone could pass right over it. And the language looks so innocuous that some might think it to be a technical correction.   It...