31 USC § 1107 - Deficiency and supplemental appropriations

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identifier: "/us/usc/t31/s1107"
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title: "31 USC § 1107 - Deficiency and supplemental appropriations"
title_number: 31
title_name: "MONEY AND FINANCE"
section_number: "1107"
section_name: "Deficiency and supplemental appropriations"
chapter_number: 11
chapter_name: "THE BUDGET AND FISCAL, BUDGET, AND PROGRAM INFORMATION"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 911; Pub. L. 112–74, div. C, title VI, § 619, Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 926.)"
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# § 1107. Deficiency and supplemental appropriations

section 1105(c) of this title

The President may submit to Congress proposed deficiency and supplemental appropriations the President decides are necessary because of laws enacted after the submission of the budget or that are in the public interest. The President shall include the reasons for the submission of the proposed appropriations and the reasons the proposed appropriations were not included in the budget. When the total proposed appropriations would have required the President to make a recommendation under  if they had been included in the budget, the President shall make a recommendation under that section. The President shall transmit promptly to Congress without change, proposed deficiency and supplemental appropriations submitted to the President by the legislative branch and the judicial branch.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 911; Pub. L. 112–74, div. C, title VI, § 619, Dec. 23, 2011, 125 Stat. 926.)

| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1107 | 31:14. | June 10, 1921, ch. 18, § 203, 42 Stat. 21; restated Sept. 12, 1950, ch. 946, § 102(b), 64 Stat. 833. |

In the section, the words “reach an aggregate which” are omitted as surplus.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2011— inserted at end “The President shall transmit promptly to Congress without change, proposed deficiency and supplemental appropriations submitted to the President by the legislative branch and the judicial branch.”