Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2018 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as Amended
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identifier: "/us/fr/2017-11076"
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title: "Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2018 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as Amended"
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title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "2017-11076"
section_name: "Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2018 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as Amended"
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currency: "2017-05-26"
last_updated: "2017-05-26"
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generator: "[email protected]"
document_number: "2017-11076"
document_type: "presidential_document"
fr_citation: "82 FR 24209"
fr_volume: 82
publication_date: "2017-05-26"
agency: "Executive Office of the President"
agencies:
- "Executive Office of the President"
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**Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2018 Pursuant to Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as Amended**
By the authority vested in me as President by the laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (the “Act”), as amended, 2 U.S.C. 901a, I hereby order that, on October 1, 2017, direct spending budgetary resources for fiscal year 2018 in each non-exempt budget account be reduced by the amount calculated by the Office of Management and Budget in its report to the Congress of May 23, 2017.
All sequestrations shall be made in strict accordance with the requirements of section 251A of the Act and the specifications of the Office of Management and Budget's report of May 23, 2017, prepared pursuant to section 251A(9) of the Act.
THE WHITE HOUSE,