Legislative authorities can expire and continue to receive appropriations—a law of Congress that provides an agency with budget authority—subject to congressional reauthorization. Among those expired appropriations is the Veteran's Health Care Eligibility Act, which amounted to $119 billion in government spending for 2024.

Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are looking to conduct a “massive downsizing” of the federal government.