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Audit of Ford-Carter Presidential Transition Expenditures

GGD-78-36 Published: Dec 23, 1977. Publicly Released: Dec 23, 1977.
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The Presidential Transition Act of 1963 authorized the appropriation of $900,000 for each Presidential transition and authorized the use of Government employees on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis. October 1976 amendments to the act authorized the appropriation of up to $2 million for the incoming administration and up to $1 million for the outgoing administration. The amendments also deleted the authority to provide Government employees on a nonreimbursable basis. The Gerald Ford-Jimmy Carter transition was the first to test the workability of financing a transition entirely with Presidential Transition Act funds.

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