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Indicator: 1
Measurements in/of Warrants, Apportionments, and Allocations
Other Information:
After Congress and the president create budget authority, that authority gets divvied up to different agencies, bureaus, programs
and projects.
| Type |
Actual |
| StartDate |
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| EndDate |
2011-12-14 |
| Machine-Readable Format |
I |
| Description |
How well documented are these processes? Not well. An appropriation warrant is an assignment of funds by the Treasury to a
treasury account to serve a particular budget authority. It's the indication that there is money in an account for an agency
to obligate and then spend. Where is warrant data? We can't find it. Given Treasury's thoroughness, it probably exists, but
it's just not out there for public consumption. We've again generously given
this area an "incomplete." An apportionment is an instruction from the Office of Management and Budget to an agency
about how much it may spend from a treasury account in service of given budget authority in a given period of time. We haven't
seen any data about this, and we're less sure that there is some. There should be. And we should get to see it. Incomplete.
An allocation is a similar division of budget authority by an agency into programs or projects. We
don't see any data on this either. And we should. Incomplete. Step up, Executive Branch, or we'll convert these incompletes
to very low grades, indeed!
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