While that will help in the short term, the East Coast states hit by the giant storm will almost certainly request billions in additional federal dollars, which would require appropriations by Congress and could set off partisan — or geographic — wrangling and stir longstanding concerns about fraud and waste.
Yet all subsequent adjustments appear to have been based on the most desperate creed of Broadway's shopworn bible: when in doubt, razzle-dazzle 'em, even if it requires appropriations from established hits that have little to do with the essence of your own show.
The program, which required an appropriation of only $75 million to guarantee the number of loans projected to default, ended in 2003.
More specifically, it is most implausible to hold that the consent of others is required for appropriation when communication with others is impossible, extremely difficult, or expensive (as it almost always is).
Any American financing, either through the State Department or Defense Department, would require new appropriations by Congress.
He said such midcycle shortfalls requiring supplemental appropriations were common in Texas.
Meanwhile, the C.B.O. expects the discretionary part of the budget — which includes every program requiring annual appropriations, from the budgets of the Pentagon and the National Science Foundation to worker training programs and early childhood education — will shrink to its smallest share of the economy since the Eisenhower administration.
Contrary to popular belief, corporate taxes have actually risen a bit while all other revenues are about the same as a share of G.D.P. On the spending side, most of the increase — 1.6percentt of gross domestic product — has been for so-called discretionary programs, those requiring annual appropriations.
It requires no appropriations from Congress to operate.
By charging fees to borrowers and lenders, neither program requires additional appropriations, says the SBA.
