Backdoor Authority / Backdoor Spending (CongressionalGlossary.com)

From the Congressional Glossary – Including Legislative and Budget Terms

Backdoor Authority / Backdoor Spending

A colloquial phrase for budget authority provided in laws other than appropriations acts, including contract authority and borrowing authority, as well as entitlement authority and the outlays that result from that budget authority.

Also see

• Appropriation
• Budget Deficit / Budget Surplus
• Chapter Seven – Legislating in Congress: Federal Budget Process, in Congressional Deskbook
• Chapter 7.C. The Congressional Budget Resolution in Congressional Procedure

More

• Budget Process (CongressionalGlossary.com)
• Budget of the United States Government – Govinfo.gov
• Concurrent Resolution on the Budget, FY2012, H. Rpt. 112-58 to accompany H. Con. Res. 34 – FDsys
• H.Con.Res.71 – Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027. – Congress.gov
• “Mandatory Spending Since 1962,” CRS Report RL33074 (24-page PDF)
• “Changes in the Purposes and Frequency of Authorizations of Appropriations,” CRS Report R43862 (27-page PDF)
• Backdoor spending authority – Conservapedia
• “Federal Budget Process Reform in the 111th Congress,” CRS Report R40113 (21-page PDF)
• “Congressional Budget Resolutions: Historical Information,” CRS Report RL30297 (47-page PDF)
• “Congressional Budget Resolutions,” CRS Report RL33122 (27-page PDF)
• “Formulation and Content of the Budget Resolution,” CRS Report 98-512 (3-page PDF)
• “Overview of the Congressional Budget Process,” CRS Report RS20368 (3-page PDF)
• “Budget Process and Enforcement,” Parliamentary Boot Camp (4-page PDF)
• “Discretionary Budget Authority by Subfunction: An Overview,” CRS Report R41726 (60-page PDF)
• “Federal Deficits, Growing Debt, and the Economy in the Wake of COVID-19,” CRS Report R46729 (24-page PDF)
• The Economic Effects of Financing a Large and Permanent Increase in Government Spending, Congressional Budget Office, CBO Working Paper 57201, March 2021 (42-page PDF)
• “A National Disgrace: The federal budget process threatens America’s future.” By John Steele Gordon, City Journal, February 19, 2021

Courses

• Congressional Operations Briefing – Capitol Hill Workshop
• Drafting Federal Legislation and Amendments
• Writing for Government and Business: Critical Thinking and Writing
• Custom Training
• Congressional Operations Poster, with Federal Budget Process Flowchart
• Federal Budgeting, a Five-Course series on CD
• Congress, the Legislative Process, and the Fundamentals of Lawmaking Series, a Nine-Course series on CD

Publications

The Federal Budget Process 2E

Pocket Constitution

Citizen’s Handbook to Influencing Elected Officials: A Guide for Citizen Lobbyists and Grassroots Advocates

Congressional Procedure

CongressionalGlossary.com, from TheCapitol.Net