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§108 Assistance to the President for Unanticipated Needs

Title 3 › CHAPTER 2 — OFFICE AND COMPENSATION OF PRESIDENT › § 108

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President may use up to $1,000,000 each fiscal year, at his choice, to pay for unexpected needs tied to the national interest, security, or defense. That money can cover people, certain services (see section 3109(b) of title 5), and related administrative costs, and can be spent without following the usual hiring, pay, or spending rules. For each fiscal year starting on or after the subsection’s effective date, the President must send a report to both Houses of Congress no later than 60 days after the year ends that lists what was paid for and how much. No one paid from this money can get more than the basic pay for Executive Schedule Level II under section 5313 of title 5.

Full Legal Text

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

Effective Date

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

Effective Date

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.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

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

Effective Date

of 1978 Amendment note under section 102 of this title.

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Citation

3 U.S.C. § 108

Title 3, The President

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102