The budget also indicates that the White House wants to take advantage of authority granted in a 2004 law that allows more targeting of pay according to occupations and/or locations where the government is having difficulty recruiting and retaining employees. The authority allows the paying of “special rate” pay in such situations, with the twist that instead of a requirement that agencies individually fund the higher pay, as is normally done with special rate pay, the money would come from the general pool of money available for across-the-board and locality raises. The effect would be to reduce the amount of money available for everyone else, although size of that effect would depend on how widely such authority would be used. The authority would not be used “unless the President determines good and sufficient evidence exists to support such an adjustment,” according to the budget.