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B-330045 1 (2018-05-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduqf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 B-330045 May 22, 2018 The Honorable Michael R. Pence President of the Senate The Honorable Paul Ryan Speaker of the House of Representatives Subject: Impoundment Control Act of 1974: Review of the President's Special Message of May 8, 2018 Under section 1012 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA), the President may transmit to Congress a special message proposing that Congress rescind budget authority. Pub. L. No. 93-344, title X, § 1012, 88 Stat. 297, 333-34 (July 12, 1974), classified at 2 U.S.C. § 683. Pursuant to this authority, on May 8, 2018, the President transmitted to Congress a special message proposing rescissions from 38 appropriation accounts. 164 Cong. Rec. S2548 (daily ed. May 8, 2018); 83 Fed. Reg. 22525 (May 15, 2018). Where the President properly transmits a special message, an agency may withhold corresponding amounts from obligation for a limited time period. ICA, § 1012(b), 2 U.S.C. § 683(b). We are submitting this letter pursuant to our statutory duty to assist Congress by reviewing the special message. ICA, § 1014(b), 2 U.S.C. § 685(b). We performed a review of each of the President's 38 proposed rescissions: 1. Consistent with section 1015(b) of the ICA, we concluded that each proposed rescission was properly classified as a rescission proposal and not as a deferral. 2 U.S.C. § 686(b). 2. After the President transmits the special message, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) transmits updated apportionments to the directly affected agencies. These apportionments may instruct agencies to withhold budget authority from obligation pending congressional action on the proposed rescission. We reviewed the updated apportionments for this special message to ensure their instructions were consistent with the special message. We found that for 32 proposals, OMB instructed agencies to withhold from obligation an amount equal to the amount proposed for rescission. For 6 proposals, OMB instructed agencies to withhold from obligation an amount less than the amount proposed for rescission. In no case did OMB instruct an agency to withhold from obligation an amount greater than that proposed for

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