§108 — Title 3 The President | U.S. Code

Summary

The President may use up to $1,000,000 each year to cover unexpected needs that help the national interest, security, or defense. That can pay for hiring people, services under 5 U.S.C. 3109(b), and related administrative costs. These funds can be spent without following the usual federal rules on hiring, pay, or spending. Within 60 days after each fiscal year ends, the President must tell both Houses of Congress what was spent and why. No one paid from this money may get more than the basic pay for Level II of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5313).

Title 3, §108

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(a)There is authorized to be appropriated to the President an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 each fiscal year to enable the President, in his discretion, to meet unanticipated needs for the furtherance of the national interest, security, or defense, including personnel needs and needs for services described in section 3109(b) of title 5, and administrative expenses related thereto, without regard to any provision of law regulating the employment or compensation of persons in the Government service or regulating expenditures of Government funds.

(b)The President shall transmit a report to each House of the Congress for each fiscal year beginning on or after the effective date of this subsection which sets forth the purposes for which expenditures were made under this section for such fiscal year and the amount expended for each such purpose. Each such report shall be transmitted no later than 60 days after the close of the fiscal year covered by such report.

(c)An individual may not be paid under the authority of this section at a rate of pay in excess of the rate of basic pay then currently paid for level II of the Executive Schedule of section 5313 of title 5.

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For the

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of this subsection, referred to in subsec. (b), see section 6(a) of Pub. L. 95–570, set out as an

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of 1978 Amendment note under section 102 of this title.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 108, act

June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 679, directing the Quartermaster General of the Army to provide suitable accommodations for the horses, carriages, and other vehicles of the President and of the Executive Office, was repealed by act

June 28, 1950, ch. 383, title IV, § 401(j), 64 Stat. 271. Insofar as prior section 108, by virtue of a former proviso in section 401 of act

June 28, 1950, continued to remain in effect to the extent that it was applicable to the Department of the Air Force, and the United States Air Force, it was additionally repealed by act Sept. 19, 1951, ch. 407, title IV, § 401(a)(1), 65 Stat. 333. Act Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, § 1(2), 65 Stat. 701, repealed that part of act Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 285, § 1, 36 Stat. 1404, from which prior section 108, as enacted by act

June 25, 1948, ch. 644, § 1, 62 Stat. 672, had been derived. That part of the 1911 act had previously been repealed by section 3 of the 1948 act.

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Section applicable to any fiscal year beginning on or after Oct. 1, 1978, see section 6(a) of Pub. L. 95–570, set out as an

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of 1978 Amendment note under section 102 of this title.

§108 Assistance to the President for unanticipated needs

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