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handle is hein.crs/govzav0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ACongressional SResearch Service Increasing the BCA Spending Limits: Characteristics of Previously Enacted Legislation April 3, 2019 The Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA; P.L. 112-25), enacted on August 2, 2011, generated annual statutory discretionary spending limits for defense and nondefense spending that are in effect through FY2021. If appropriations are enacted that exceed a limit for a fiscal year, across-the-board reductions (i.e., sequestration) are triggered to eliminate the excess spending within that category. The BCA further stipulates that certain discretionary spending-such as appropriations designated as emergency requirements or for overseas contingency operations-are effectively exempt from the limits. For more information on the BCA, see CRS Report R44874, The Budget Control Act: Frequently Asked Questions, by Grant A. Driessen and Megan S. Lynch. Legislation has been enacted increasing the BCA spending limits (or caps) for each year from FY2014 through FY2019. In each case, (1) the legislation increased both defense and nondefense caps (although not always by equal amounts); (2) the legislation increased the caps for two fiscal years; (3) the legislation was enacted after the start of the first fiscal year that it affected; and (4) the legislation included other components, such as provisions affecting mandatory spending. Legislation has not been enacted modifying the discretionary budget authority limits for FY2020 or FY2021. As shown in Figure 1, under current law, the caps for FY2020 would drop by $126 billion (or 10 percent) relative to the budget authority caps for FY2019. That decrease would consist of a $71 billion drop in the defense cap (from $647 billion to $576 billion) and a $55 billion decrease in the nondefense cap (from $597 billion to $542 billion). Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11090 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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