Mo' Money, Mo' Problems
This USAID account is 100% encumbered by earmarks.
What is GHP-USAID?
Congress passes funding legislation that the President signs into law.
What is an Appropriation?
The President’s comprehensive financial plan that indicates the President's priorities for the Federal Government.
What is the Budget?
This Act requires OMB to apportion the accounts and to monitor spending and prohibits agencies from spending more than the amount appropriated or apportioned; and requires that agencies control their spending, and provide penalties for overspending.
What is the Antideficiency Act?
A country’s ability to plan, finance, and implement solutions to its own development challenges.
What is Journey to Self Reliance (J2SR)?
This sector became a hard earmark level of over $2 billion starting in FY 2016.
What is DRG?
The estimated cost of goods and services received but not yet paid for.
What are Accruals?
The fiscal year for which the Budget is being considered.
What is the Budget Year?
Before enactment of this law in 1921, there was no centralized budgeting in the Executive Branch.
What is the Budget and Accounting Act?
Leveraging resources and technical expertise of non-traditional partners.
What is Private Sector Engagement (PSE)?
This operating unit received the largest bilateral earmark in program funds for FY 2019.
What is Jordan?
Bureaus make funds available to the individual Mission and OUs.
What is Allowance?
This is provided by law to incur financial obligations that will result in outlays.
What is Budget Authority?
Established the current congressional budget process.
What is the Congressional Budget Act?
Initiative to increase trade and investment between the U.S. and its partners to advance mutual prosperity.
What is Prosper Africa?
To receive funding for this high-level initiative, a mission must commit to an additional four-month long approval process and additional pipeline scrutiny.
What is PEPFAR?
A plan, approved by OMB, to spend resources provided by one of the annual appropriation acts, a supplemental appropriations act, a continuing resolution, or a permanent law (mandatory appropriations).
What is Apportionment?
Amounts available to incur obligations in a given year.
What are Budgetary resources?
Updates the Federal Government's performance management framework.
What is the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993?
This entity was established by the BUILD Act to mobilize innovative financing tools.
What is Development Finance Corporation (DFC)?
POTUS proposal to reduce budgetary resources pursuant to the requirement of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974.
What is a Rescission?
State/F makes funds available to the bureaus in State and USAID.
What is Allotment?
Legislation that amended Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, to reinstate discretionary spending limits on budget authority through 2021.
What is the Budget Control Act of 2011?
This law governs Federal programs that make direct loans and loan guarantees.
What is the Federal Credit Report Act of 1990?
An initiative launched by the White House on Feb 7, 2019 that will provide greater opportunities for a key demographic to reach their full economic potential.
What is Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (WGDP)?