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A bill to provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity discretionary spending.
To provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity discretionary spending.
Summary
This bill requires automatic cuts to nonsecurity discretionary spending across the federal government on a pro rata basis. It mandates a 1 percent cut for fiscal year 2026, a 2 percent cut for fiscal year 2027, and a 5 percent cut for fiscal year 2028 and each subsequent year. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget must report to Congress each year specifying which accounts and programs were subject to the cuts.
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- Feb 3, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. · senate
- Feb 3, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 3, 2025
Mrs. Blackburn introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations
A BILL
To provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity discretionary spending.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ACROSS-THE-BOARD RESCISSIONS.
(a) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Budget authority.—The term “budget authority” has the meaning given that term in section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622).
(2) Discretionary appropriations; security category.—The terms “discretionary appropriations” and “security category” have the meanings given such terms in section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)).
(3) Nonsecurity discretionary appropriations.—The term “nonsecurity discretionary appropriations” means discretionary appropriations provided in a regular appropriation Act that are not included in the security category.
(4) Regular appropriation act.—The term “regular appropriation Act”—
(A) means an annual appropriation Act (as described in section 105 of title 1, United States Code) providing new budget authority for the programs, projects, and activities under the jurisdiction of a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(B) includes—
(i) a title, division, or other subdivision of an Act or resolution that, if it were a separate Act, would be an Act described in subparagraph (A); and
(ii) a resolution or Act, or a title, division, or other subdivision of a resolution or Act, making continuing appropriations for a fiscal year.
(b) Rescissions.—
(1) Fiscal year 2026.—For fiscal year 2026, effective on the day after the date on which appropriations are made available through the end of fiscal year 2026 for the entire Federal Government, there is rescinded, on a pro rata basis, 1 percent of the nonsecurity discretionary appropriations made available for fiscal year 2026.
(2) Fiscal year 2027.—For fiscal year 2027, effective on the day after the date on which appropriations are made available through the end of fiscal year 2027 for the entire Federal Government, there is rescinded, on a pro rata basis, 2 percent of the nonsecurity discretionary appropriations made available for such fiscal year.
(3) Subsequent fiscal years.—For fiscal year 2028, and each fiscal year thereafter, effective on the day after the date on which appropriations are made available through the end of the applicable fiscal year for the entire Federal Government, there is rescinded, on a pro rata basis, 5 percent of the nonsecurity discretionary appropriations made available for such fiscal year.
(c) OMB Reports.—For fiscal year 2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, not later than 30 days after the date on which appropriations are made available through the end of such fiscal year for the entire Federal Government, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report specifying the account and amount of each rescission made pursuant to subsection (b). <all>
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