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This 5 page paper discusses government backdoor spending and ways to control it and other spending. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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paper discusses so-called "backdoor spending" as well as the ways in which Congress can control spending. Discussion Its difficult to research a topic like this without getting caught up in
political wrangling, accusations and relentless attacks by politicians on members of the other party. But deficit spending has been a problem for decades no matter which party controls Congress. That
said, lets tackle backdoor spending. Backdoor spending can be defined as money allocated to programs that are not funded through the ordinary appropriations process (Congressional budgeting, 1921-1974). Backdoor spending "is
created pursuant to legislation reported from authorizing committees and enacted into law" and has become so common that less than 50% of all federal government spending is now under the
control of the Appropriations Committees (Congressional budgeting, 1921-1974). Backdoor spending is "created in several forms," including "borrowing authority," "contract authority" and entitlements (Congressional budgeting, 1921-1974). "Borrowing authority" is that which
allows a Federal agency to "incur obligations and make payments for specified purposes with money borrowed in the form of either public debt or agency debt" (Congressional budgeting, 1921-1974). Its
easy to see that this would be one way in which the national debt could be run up fairly quickly. "Contract authority" allows Federal agencies to form obligations before there
is an appropriation made to cover the obligation; this authority then "compels the Appropriations Committees to provide funds" needed to meet the obligation (Congressional budgeting, 1921-1974). In other words, the
government can make a contract before it has the money to pay for it, and then, having formed the debt, money has to be found to pay it. Finally, there
are "entitlements and mandatory appropriations" such as Social Security and "interest on the public debt" (Congressional budgeting, 1921-1974). The Federal government in these cases is obligated to meet these payments
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