Official Summaries

Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
 
This bill revives expedited congressional consideration of certain Presidential plans to reorganize the executive branch, expands permissible plan purposes, and changes the prohibitions on plan content.
 
The bill reauthorizes through 2026 a currently expired authority that requires expedited congressional consideration of certain executive branch reorganization plans submitted by the President. 
 
The bill also expands the purposes for which such reorganization plans may be undertaken, to include

• reducing the number of federal employees;
• eliminating unnecessary and burdensome rules, regulations, and other requirements; and
• eliminating government operations that do not serve the public interest.

The bill removes the following prohibitions on the contents of such plans: 

• creating new executive departments or renaming existing executive departments; 
• abolishing or transferring executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions; and
• consolidating executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions.

The bill also adds a new prohibition on content, specifying that any such plan may not create a net increase in federal workers or expenditures.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1295 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 397
119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1295

                      [Report No. 119-464, Part I]

 To amend chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, to reauthorize the 
   executive reorganization authority of the President and to ensure 
      efficient executive reorganization, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2025

 Mr. Comer (for himself, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Biggs of Arizona, Ms. Greene 
of Georgia, Mr. Jack, Mr. Gill of Texas, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Fallon, Mr. 
   Crane, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Langworthy, Mr. Sessions, Mr. 
  Higgins of Louisiana, Ms. Boebert, and Mr. Timmons) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
  Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

                            January 27, 2026

 Additional sponsors: Mr. Pfluger, Ms. Mace, Mr. McGuire, and Mr. Gosar

                            January 27, 2026

Reported from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform with an 
                               amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

                            January 27, 2026

Committee on Rules discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
    [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on 
                           February 13, 2025]


_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To amend chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, to reauthorize the 
   executive reorganization authority of the President and to ensure 
      efficient executive reorganization, 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 ``Reorganizing Government Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION AMENDMENTS.

    Chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 901--
                    (A) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``, 
                        including the elimination of operations 
                        determined to be unnecessary for the execution 
                        of constitutional duties'' before the 
                        semicolon;
                            (ii) in paragraph (5)--
                                    (I) by striking ``agencies'' in 
                                each place the term appears and 
                                inserting ``executive departments'';
                                    (II) by striking ``by 
                                consolidating'' and inserting ``or 
                                functions thereof by consolidating''; 
                                and
                                    (III) by striking ``and'' at the 
                                end;
                            (iii) in paragraph (6), by striking the 
                        period and inserting a semicolon; and
                            (iv) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) to reduce the number of Federal employees;
            ``(8) to amend rules, regulations, and other requirements 
        for the purpose of decreasing the cost and difficulty of 
        compliance thereof, and to eliminate unnecessary and burdensome 
        rules, regulations, and other requirements; and
            ``(9) to eliminate government operations that do not serve 
        the public interest.''; and
                    (B) in subsection (d), by striking ``agencies'' and 
                inserting ``executive departments'';
            (2) in section 902, by striking paragraph (1) and inserting 
        the following:
            ``(1) `executive department'--
                    ``(A) means--
                            ``(i) any executive department, agency, or 
                        independent establishment of the United States 
                        or any corporation wholly owned by the United 
                        States; and
                            ``(ii) an office or officer of the 
                        executive branch; and
                    ``(B) does not include the Government 
                Accountability Office or the Comptroller General of the 
                United States.'';
            (3) in section 903(a)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
                striking ``agencies'' and inserting ``executive 
                departments'';
                    (B) by striking ``agency'' in each place the term 
                appears and inserting ``executive department''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ``, except that 
                no enforcement function or statutory program shall be 
                abolished by the plan'';
            (4) in section 904, by striking ``agency'' in each place 
        the term appears and inserting ``executive department'';
            (5) in section 905--
                    (A) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) by striking paragraph (1);
                            (ii) by redesignating paragraphs (2) 
                        through (7) as paragraphs (1) through (6), 
                        respectively;
                            (iii) in paragraphs (1) and (3), as so 
                        redesignated, by striking ``agency'' in each 
                        place the term appears and inserting 
                        ``executive department'';
                            (iv) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated, 
                        by striking ``new agency'' and inserting ``new 
                        executive department'';
                            (v) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated, 
                        by striking ``or'';
                            (vi) in paragraph (6), as so redesignated, 
                        by striking the period and inserting ``; or''; 
                        and
                            (vii) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) creating a net increase in the number of Federal 
        workers or a net increase in expenditures.''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``December 31, 
                1984'' and inserting ``December 31, 2026'';
            (6) in section 907, by striking ``agency'' in each place 
        the term appears and inserting ``executive department'';
            (7) in section 908, by striking ``December 31, 1984'' and 
        inserting ``December 31, 2026''; and
            (8) in section 909, by striking ``19 .'' and inserting ``20 
        .''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 397

119th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 1295

                      [Report No. 119-464, Part I]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To amend chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, to reauthorize the 
   executive reorganization authority of the President and to ensure 
      efficient executive reorganization, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            January 27, 2026

Reported from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform with an 
                               amendment

                            January 27, 2026

Committee on Rules discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed