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[quote=Anonymous]It’s incredible misleading to call out programs with expired authorizations that are still receiving money like it’s some bad thing. This happens all the time when Congress wants a program to continue, but doesn’t want to change it or can’t reach agreement on legislative amendments to change it. In that case, they fund the program via annual appropriations acts at whatever funding level they agree is appropriate, exactly the same way they did before the “authorization of appropriations” provision in the authoring act expired.

Many newer programs no longer have “authorization of appropriation” provisions at all.  They are a relic of the past in many ways. Their purpose was for the authorizing committees of Congress to signal to the appropriations committees how much they thought the appropriators should provide in implementation funding. The appropriators have always been free to disregard that and decide on a higher or lower amount.  At the end of the day, if a program receives funding, it’s because Congress voted to provide it. [/quote]

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