An Examination of Federal Disaster Relief Under the Budget Control Act

Lindsay, Bruce R. ; Painter, William L. ; McCarthy, Francis X.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Fiscal policy;    Budgets;    Government spending;    Emergency management;    Disasters;   

RP-ID  :  R42352
RP-ID  :  R42352_2012Feb10

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report addresses traditional funding for major disaster declarations, workings of the President's Disaster Relief Fund, a basic overview of how disaster assistance is appropriated, what factors affect how much the federal government spends on disasters, how disaster relief is impacted by the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011, and what the policy implications are for disaster assistance under the constraints of the BCA, and the increasing number of disaster declarations and both the possible causes and likely cost implications of a greater number of declarations.