Temporary Warrants are issued under a Continuing Resolution

• A. Under a Supplemental Appropriation
• B. Under a Mandatory Budget
• C. Under a Continuing Resolution
• D. Under a Formal Budget

Answer: (C)

Temporary warrants are used to keep government operations funded when full-year appropriations haven’t been enacted yet. A Continuing Resolution provides authority to incur obligations and make payments at existing or specified funding levels during that interim period, so agencies can continue essential activities without a lapse. The temporary warrants act as the disbursing authority to cover those obligations throughout the CR period.

Supplemental appropriations add new funding beyond the CR, not the mechanism for ongoing operations under a CR. Mandatory budgets involve automatically funded programs, not the discretionary funding level set by a CR. A formal budget isn’t the funding mechanism in this context.