To the Congress of the United States:
In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I herewith report five new deferrals of budget authority totaling $354,427,600 and five supplementary deferrals of budget authority totaling $511,079,613.
The deferrals affect programs in Funds Appropriated to the President; the Departments of Defense (Military), Energy, Health and Human Services, Justice and Treasury; and the Railroad Retirement Board.
The details of the deferrals are contained in the attached reports.
RONALD REAGAN
The White House,
December 14, 1983.
Note: The attachments detailing the deferrals are printed in the Federal Register of December 22, 1983.
Ronald Reagan, Message to the Congress Reporting Budget Deferrals Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262206