The April 18, 2018 memo signed by Defense Department Comptroller David Norquist "provides guidance on how to apply reductions to congressionally directed spending items in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018 (Division C of Public Law 115-141), which includes a general provision (GP) that gives statutory effect to certain tabular entries in the explanatory statement accompanying the Act, as well as GPs that earmark a portion of an appropriation for a specific purpose."