Defense: FY2014 Authorization and Appropriations
Abstract
Congressional action on DOD s FY2014 budget was hobbled by the prevailing uncertainty over the entire federal budget that dissipated only in mid-December, when Congress passed and the President signed H.J.Res. 59, which set binding caps on discretionary spending for defense and non-defense programs in FY2014. The bill s defense cap, while about $31 billion below the amount requested for defense programs by President Obama, was more than $20 billion higher than the FY2014 defense cap that had been set by the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011 (P.L. 112-25). President Obama s FY2014 base budget request of $552.0 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Department of Defense (DOD) and defense-related programs of other agencies (excluding war costs), exceeded by $53.9 billion the legally binding cap on defense funding for FY2014 that was enacted in 2011 as part of the BCA. Similarly, in their initial actions on the annual defense funding bills for FY2014, the House and the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees of the Senate approved defense funding totals (excluding war costs) that were very close to President Obama s so-called base budget (i.e., non-war) request, regardless of the BCA cap.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 08, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA592862
Entities
People
- Amy Belasco
- Pat Towell
Organizations
- Library of Congress