2024 Appropriations Law Forum Materials

GAO held its annual Appropriations Law Forum on June 4, 2024. The session included an overview of decisions issued from September 2023 to May 2024, and discussions on working with GAO under GAO's new protocols for legal decisions and opinions; revolving funds and government corporations; the recording statute and bona fide needs rule; impoundments; the role of executive agencies and appropriations attorneys during a new presidential term; the purpose statute; and GAO's tracking of community project funding and congressionally directed spending. The forum materials include a document, created for the forum, that provides appropriations law resources for political appointees.