Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (28330)	5/7/2008 6:31:48 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Supplemental spending bills are not new, and are fully accounted for. They where not in the initial budget, but they are themselves an addition to the budget. They can be considered off budget, because they where not in the original budget bill, but that isn't a very meaningful way to consider them off budget. If that means "off budget", than there is nothing even slightly wrong with being off budget. Something really off budget would be spending that is never passed by the budget authority of congress, and/or is not accounted for in any way. The first would be outside the governments budget, the later would be off budget in an accounting sense.