Federal Government Policy and Business

Full-Year Continuing Resolution Would Trigger Sequester, Budget Office Says

Government Executive: If lawmakers opt to do the bare minimum with appropriations bills and keep agencies running on autopilot for all of fiscal 2018, it would trigger automatic across-the-board spending cuts throughout government, a new analysis has found.

President Trump has already signed a stopgap spending measure to maintain the status quo from the beginning of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1 through Dec. 8. A Congressional Budget Office review of that bill found that continuing the same spending levels for the full fiscal year would likely force the Office of Management and Budget to revoke some of the funds that Congress had appropriated. About $2.4 billion would be sequestered from defense accounts, while about $2.3 billion would be sequestered from non-defense accounts, CBO estimated. The Office of Management and Budget would make the final determination on the amounts of any sequestration.

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