Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1.Supplemental appropriations are not scrutinized as carefully as regular appropriations.
2.While traditional incremental budgeting operates from the assumption that the previous year’s budget was justified, and so increments are all that need examination, zero-based budgeting holds that a more comprehensive examination of all expenditures should be conducted.
3.Under Gramm–Rudman–Hollings, if the president and Congress could not reach an agreement on raising taxes or cutting spending to reduce the deficit, sequestrations in spending, taking half from the defense budget and half from the domestic budget, are imposed.
4.Some state governors have the power to veto portions of bills with a line-item veto.


1.true
2.true
3.true
4.true

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