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-'''Discretionary spending''' is a spending category through which governments can [[government spending|spend]] through an [[appropriations bill]].<ref name="FY 2013 Budget Concepts">{{cite book|title=FY 2013 Budget of the United States Government|volume=Analytical Perspectives|chapter=Budget Concepts|page=137|url=
-http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/concepts.pdf}}</ref> This spending is optional as part of [[fiscal policy]], in contrast to [[entitlement program]]s for which funding is mandatory.<ref name="Mandal2007">{{cite book|last=Mandal|first=U.C.|title=Dictionary Of Public Administration|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Hs0xJORVIHwC&pg=PA140|accessdate=5 April 2011|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-784-8|page=140}}</ref>
-In the United States, discretionary spending refers to spending set on a yearly basis by decision of Congress. Such spending is usually authorized by Congress in another act. Provisions of an appropriations act that authorize spending are [[earmark (politics)|earmarks]]. When an authorization act also appropriates funds, it is called [[mandatory spending]].
 ==See also==
 {{Portal|Business and economics}}