appropriations

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Congress is given the power to “raise and support Armies,” but that power is hedged with limits, including the requirement that appropriations for the army be renewed every two years.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

They craft the state budget and have a line-item veto to eliminate legislative appropriations.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Since I entered Congress in 2011, we should have passed 180 appropriations bills before the start of the fiscal year they were funding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

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 • Feb. 13, 2026

He was chair of the appropriations committee in the Utah House of Representatives, where he’d been first elected in 2000.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel