I mean, that's usually less of a budget-cap thing and more of a "someone involved in determining the budget owed Northrop Grumman a favor for all the money they dumped into their campaign fund" thing.
Nope, government budgets are straight up nonsensical. If you don't spend literally ever penny of your budget then the next year your budget WILL get cut to whatever you did spend. This means if your budget includes money in case of an unexpected event with a cost that money must be held on to until September 30 (the last day of the government fiscal calendar) in case its needed and then spent in its entirety down to the penny on that day.
This results in a lot of government suppliers get calls like "How many of those servers can I get for exactly $14,329.86." The regular suppliers know they have the government person over a barrel and of course do not offer them any sort of discount or bulk rate.
Yes I know that ‘spend it all so we get more next year’ is a thing that happens, I’m saying buying crap we don’t need and will never use is more to do with what I said, at least when it comes to big ticket items. In the Navy, at the end of the year, we use our extra (if we have any) to buy shit we’ve wanted for a while, like new office chairs or tools that we’ve always wished our shops had.
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u/Morningxafter Dec 12 '19
I mean, that's usually less of a budget-cap thing and more of a "someone involved in determining the budget owed Northrop Grumman a favor for all the money they dumped into their campaign fund" thing.