Bill Details
HR.1654 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Introduced Date
2025-02-27
Policy Area
Economics and Public Finance
Committees
Sponsors
5
0
0
AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would take back money that was approved in past laws but has not yet been spent, and use those savings to help pay for foreign aid passed in 2024. It focuses on leftover COVID-19 relief money and some unused infrastructure money. In simple terms, the bill would cancel certain unspent federal funds from pandemic-era programs and transportation or education programs, but only to the extent needed to offset the cost of the newer foreign assistance funding.
- It targets unused COVID-19 relief funds from several major laws, including the CARES Act, later pandemic relief acts, and the American Rescue Plan.
- It also cancels unspent money in some infrastructure-related programs, including the Education Stabilization Fund and certain highway and transportation grant programs.
- The bill says these cuts would help cover the cost of supplemental foreign aid for Israel, Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific region approved in 2024.
- Only “unobligated” money would be taken back, meaning funds that have not yet been committed to specific uses.
Official Summaries
No summaries available
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1654 Introduced in House (IH)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1654
To rescind unobligated COVID-19 relief funds and certain infrastructure
funds to offset the cost of the supplemental foreign assistance made
available for fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 27, 2025
Mr. Bean of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to
the Committees on Appropriations, and Transportation and
Infrastructure, 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
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To rescind unobligated COVID-19 relief funds and certain infrastructure
funds to offset the cost of the supplemental foreign assistance made
available for fiscal year 2024, 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 TITLES.
This Act may be cited as any of the following:
(1) The ``Cutting Unobligated Tumultuous Spending Act''.
(2) The ``CUTS Act''.
(3) The ``De-Supplemental Act''.
SEC. 2. RESCISSIONS.
(a) COVID-19 Rescissions.--
(1) In general.--The unobligated balances of any COVID-19
relief funds are hereby rescinded to the extent that the sum of
such rescinded funds does not exceed the total amount
appropriated under the following Acts:
(A) The Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations
Act, 2024 (Division A of Public Law 118-50).
(B) The Ukraine Security Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 2024 (Division B of Public Law 118-
50).
(C) The Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 2024 (division C of Public Law 118-
50).
(2) COVID-19 relief funds defined.--In this section, the
term ``COVID-19 relief funds'' means any funds appropriated or
otherwise made available by--
(A) the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-
123);
(B) the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136);
(C) the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care
Enhancement Act (Public Law 116-139);
(D) the Coronavirus Response and Relief
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (Division M of
Public Law 116-260);
(E) division N of the Consolidated Appropriations
Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260); or
(F) the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public
Law 117-2).
(b) Infrastructure Rescissions.--Any unobligated funds appropriated
to any of the following are hereby rescinded:
(1) The Education Stabilization Fund under the heading
``Department of Education'' in title VIII of division B of the
CARES Act (Public Law 116-136; 134 Stat. 564).
(2) The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement
Program established in section 149 of title 23, United States
Code.
(3) The Carbon Reduction Program established in section 175
of title 23, United States Code.
(4) The PROTECT Program established in section 176 of title
23, United States Code.
<all>