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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Using this data, we summed the enacted budget authority for supplemental appropriations by year.

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Executive Action Alone Won’t Save Us from Climate Change

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Section 201 of the NEA authorizes the president broad discretion to declare a national emergency, which gives access to presidential authorities embedded in existing statute. Alternatively, Biden could use the Stafford Act in much the same way Trump did for the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden also hinted at such unilateral action.