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S. 16, a Bill to Provide for a Sequester Replacement 1 (February 28, 2013)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo10989 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 February 28, 2013 Honorable Patrick J. Toomey United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator: In response to your request, CBO has reviewed S. 16, a bill to provide for a sequester replacement, as introduced on February 27, 2013. The legislation would provide the President with flexibility in administering the automatic spending reductions (also known as sequestration) that are scheduled to take effect on March 1. The bill would require the President to cut the same total amount in budgetary resources this year as currently required by law ($85.3 billion)-but instead of applying across-the-board cuts to all nonexempt programs, S. 16 would allow him to decide how to allocate those cuts, subject to certain limitations specified in the bill. (For example, no more than half of the reductions could come from defense spending.) In addition, the Secretary of Defense would be given some authority to transfer amounts appropriated for 2013 for the Department of Defense from some accounts to others. The President would have until March 15 to report to the Congress on his plan for the reductions in spending. The Congress would then have the opportunity to vote on a resolution of disapproval of the President's plan. If such a resolution is enacted or if the President does not submit a plan, the sequestration as provided in current law would remain in effect. Providing such flexibility in administering the automatic spending reductions would introduce some additional uncertainty about the ultimate amount of savings that would be generated. Some reductions in budget authority would result in immediate outlay savings, but some would result in savings over a long period of time and others might result in no savings at all (because some funds are never spent).

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