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Stop the Baseline Bloat Act of 2025
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exclude resources designated as an emergency requirement or any resources provided in supplemental appropriations laws from CBO baseline projections for discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act to change how the Congressional Budget Office calculates spending baselines used in budget negotiations. It excludes emergency spending and supplemental appropriations from CBO baseline projections for discretionary spending. The baseline is used to measure whether Congress is exceeding spending caps and deficit targets, so excluding emergency and supplemental funds would lower the baseline used in those calculations. The bill applies these changes to how Congress measures discretionary spending going forward. The stated purpose is to prevent emergency and supplemental spending from automatically increasing future spending caps and budget baselines.
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Sponsor (1)
9 cosponsors
- Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1] (D-HI)
- Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6] (R-VA)
- Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4] (R-KS)
- Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2] (D-ME)
- Rep. Gray, Adam [D-CA-13] (D-CA)
- Rep. Norman, Ralph [R-SC-5] (R-SC)
- Rep. Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA-3] (D-WA)
- Rep. Stutzman, Marlin A. [R-IN-3] (R-IN)
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA)
Actions (2)
- Jun 11, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Budget. · house
- Jun 11, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 11, 2025
Mr. Grothman (for himself, Mr. Case, Ms. Perez, Mr. Golden of Maine, Mr. Gray, Mr. Stutzman, Mr. Cline, and Mr. Norman) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget
A BILL
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exclude resources designated as an emergency requirement or any resources provided in supplemental appropriations laws from CBO baseline projections for discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Stop the Baseline Bloat Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. CHANGES IN THE BASELINE.
Section 257(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 907(c)) is amended in the second sentence of paragraph (1) by inserting “excluding resources designated as an emergency requirement and any resources provided in supplemental appropriation laws,” after “current year,”. <all>
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