To the Congress of the United States:
In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, including Section 1014, I herewith report seven new deferrals of budget authority totaling $5,017,441,000 and four revised deferrals of budget authority now totaling $5,131,425,194.
The deferrals affect accounts in Funds Appropriated to the President, and the Departments of Defense-Military, Health and Human Services, and Transportation.
The details of these deferrals are contained in the attached report.
RONALD REAGAN
The White House,
December 15, 1986.
Note: The attachment detailing the deferrals was printed in the "Federal Register" of December 31.
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/257454