Money & budgets
supplemental appropriation
Funding enacted outside the regular annual cycle, usually for disasters, war, or a crisis that could not be anticipated.
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Supplementals move fast and often outside normal budget caps, sometimes designated as emergency spending that is exempt from offset requirements. That exemption makes them a favored vehicle for adding unrelated priorities, and it is why the contents of a supplemental frequently receive more attention than the emergency prompting it.
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