appropriation
Example Sentences
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Under federal law, employees may work during a shutdown only if their jobs are deemed essential or are funded outside the annual appropriations process.
An estimated 61,197 TSA employees, out of its 64,130 total, will either work without pay or get paid with resources other than annual appropriations, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.
From MarketWatch
No ICE officials testified at Wednesday’s congressional appropriations hearings.
From Barron's
Though the study is underway now, it’s been in the works since Congress included the plan in appropriations legislation in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times
“The appropriations bills, reconciliation, rescissions, all the different tools we are using. . . . It’s the end of futility,” Mr. Vought says in an interview.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
