Annual Appropriation Limited No more than $500 million will be appropriated annually, Mr. Fitzwater added.

A reduction in spending on all other annually appropriated domestic programs of $2.2 billion, or one-half of 1 percent, to $398.3 billion.

The caps for the coming budget year limit discretionary spending - the one-third of the Federal budget that includes all annually appropriated programs, from the Pentagon to Head Start - to $536 billion.

From any discretionary funding appropriated annually for the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, the law authorizes a 3.3 percent set-aside for the CIP.

It was reported that $5,000 was appropriated annually for basic medical care, supplies and farming implements.

The limits apply to the one-third of the $1.8 trillion federal budget known as discretionary spending, the part that has to be appropriated annually and encompasses everything from the military to Head Start.

One way to start saving money is to end requesting annually appropriated dollars for projects through the practice of earmarks.

- There are authorized to be appropriated annually such sums as may be necessary for the payment by the United States of its share of the expenses of the WTO.

As a result, the federal share must be appropriated annually through Congress.

In the United States, mandatory spending refers to budget authority and ensuing outlays provided in laws other than appropriations acts, including annually appropriated entitlements.