2018-07653. OMB Final Sequestration Report to the President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2018

AGENCY:

Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget.

ACTION:

Notice of availability of the OMB Final Sequestration Report to the President and Congress for FY 2018.

SUMMARY:

OMB is issuing its Final Sequestration Report to the President and Congress for FY 2018 to report on compliance of enacted 2018 discretionary appropriations legislation with the discretionary caps. The report includes adjustments to the 2018 and 2019 caps for changes in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 and it finds that enacted appropriations are within those discretionary caps for 2018. As a result, a sequestration of discretionary budget authority is not required in 2018. The report also finds that enacted supplemental appropriations for 2017 are within the 2017 caps.

DATES:

 

Release Date: April 6, 2018. Section 254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue its Final Sequestration Report 15 calendar days after the end of a congressional session. With regard to this final report and to each of the three required sequestration reports, section 254(b) specifically states the following:

Submission and Availability of Reports.—Each report required by this section shall be submitted, in the case of CBO, to the House of Representatives, the Senate and OMB and, in the case of OMB, to the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President on the day it is issued. On the following day, a notice of the report shall be printed in the Federal Register.

However, a provision in the 2018 Continuing Resolution delayed the release of this report until 15 days after the 2018 Continuing Resolution expired on March 23, 2018.

ADDRESSES:

The OMB Sequestration Reports to the President and Congress is available on-line on the OMB home page at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/​omb/​legislative/​sequestration-reports-orders/​.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Thomas Tobasko, 6202 New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, Email address: [e-mail], telephone number: [phone], fax number: [phone]. Because of delays in the receipt of regular mail related to security screening, respondents are encouraged to use electronic communications.

John Mulvaney,

Director.