	Introduction

On July 8, 2014, the Administration requested $4,346 million in FY2014 supplemental appropriations to address two issues: 
the federal costs of managing the surge of both unaccompanied alien children (UAC) and escorted alien children illegally crossing the southwest border, and a projected shortfall in federal funding to pay the costs of wildfires. On July 23, 2014, the Senate introduced S. 2648 , which included $3,571 million in supplemental appropriations for those purposes as well as providing funding for defense assistance to Israel. The legislation would designate the appropriations as an emergency requirement, meaning the funding would not count against the discretionary budget caps for FY2014. On July 29, 2014, the House introduced H.R. 5230 , which included $659 million in supplemental appropriations to address the situation at the southwest border. The original legislation included $659 million in offsets. This amended bill passed the House by a vote of 223-189 on August 1, 2014. Overview

 Table 1 below outlines the Administration's request for supplemental funding for FY2014, and the proposed new budget authority provided in response to those requests. Funding with the designation would not count against the discretionary spending caps for FY2014, and an offset would not be needed to avoid violating those caps. All funding in the bill would be designated as emergency funding, as the Administration requested. H.R. The analysis of this report only focuses on the first division of the House bill.
On July 8, 2014, the Administration requested $4,346 million in FY2014 supplemental appropriations to address two issues: the surge in both unaccompanied and escorted children illegally crossing the southwest border, and a shortfall in federal funding to pay the costs of wildfires. The appropriations were requested to be designated as emergency funding, meaning the requested funds would not count against the discretionary budget caps for FY2014.
On July 23, 2014, the Senate introduced S. 2648, which includes $3,571 million in supplemental appropriations for the Administration's requested purposes as well as for defense assistance to Israel. S. 2648 would designate the appropriations as an emergency, meaning they would not count against the discretionary budget caps for FY2014.
On July 29, 2014, the House introduced H.R. 5230, which included $659 million in supplemental appropriations to address the situation at the southwest border. The legislation also included $659 million in rescissions that would offset the budgetary impact of the bill. An amended version of H.R. 5230, which includes an additional $35 million to defray the cost to states of National Guard deployments to the southern border, $35 million more in offsets, and a different set of policy provisions, passed the House 223-189 on August 1, 2014.
The primary focus of this report is the Administration's request for supplemental appropriations, and the appropriations legislation considered in response to that request. Other policy-related provisions of the legislation will be analyzed in other CRS materials.
This report will be updated as events warrant.