Whatever they do NOT spend?
Goes back to the Treasury. as of October 1st , 2018…
The amount of money?
Could be as high as $200 Billion for the Defense Dept. and others?
(The below piece is date Sept. 19, 2018)
The federal government is primed to spend as much as $300 billion in the final quarter of fiscal 2018 as agencies rush to obligate money appropriated by Congress before Sept. 30 or return it to the Treasury Department.
The spending spree is the product of the omnibus budget agreement signed six months late in March coupled with funding increases of $80 billion for defense and $63 billion for civilian agencies. The shortened time frame left procurement officials scrambling to find ways to spend the money.
Through August, defense and civilian agencies obligated some $300 billion in contracts. But to spend all the money appropriated to them by Congress, they may have to obligate well over $200 billion more in the final quarter of fiscal 2018, which ends in two weeks.
“It is not impossible for this to happen, but it is unprecedented for that high of a percentage to be obligated to contracts for a fiscal quarter,” David Berteau, president of the Professional Services Council, told Nextgov. “You’d have to spend almost 50 percent of the yearly total in three months.”….
Can you imagine in a Democratic Administration , if say the Dept. Of Health and Human Services announced something like this? ”Conservatives” would be hollering to high heaven.
Of course the Trump Party now regards spending as no big deal, apparently adopting the Dick Cheney creed,
“Deficits don’t matter.”
Tell me again what “conservatives” stand for, other than hating “libruls “ and the media.