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This bill would automatically reduce certain federal spending each year by cutting a share of nonsecurity discretionary funding if that spending grows too much from one year to the next. In simple terms, it sets up an across-the-board trim for many domestic programs, while leaving security-related spending out of the cut. The reduction would start with fiscal year 2026 and would happen every year after that once the full year’s federal appropriations are in place.
- The cut would apply only to nonsecurity discretionary appropriations, meaning yearly funding in regular spending bills that is not in the security category.
- The amount cut would equal the “excess growth percent,” which is the share by which total annual appropriations grew by more than 1% compared with the previous year.
- The reduction would be made pro rata, so the cut would be spread across the affected funding rather than taken from just one program.
- The bill also defines what counts as a regular appropriations act and includes continuing funding measures in that definition.
Official Summaries
Implementing Decreases in Overall Government Expenditures Act or the Implementing DOGE Act
This bill requires rescissions of certain nonsecurity (i.e., nondefense) discretionary appropriations.
Beginning in FY2026, the bill requires annual rescissions on a pro rata basis that are equal to the excess growth percent of the nonsecurity discretionary appropriations made available for the fiscal year. Under the bill, the excess growth percent is the percentage in excess of 1% that the total annual appropriations exceeded the previous fiscal year’s annual appropriations.
The rescissions required by the bill are effective on the day after the date on which appropriations are made available through September 30 of the applicable fiscal year for the entire federal government.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 199 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 199
To provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity
discretionary spending, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Appropriations
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A BILL
To provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity
discretionary spending, 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 ``Implementing Decreases in Overall
Government Expenditures Act'' or the ``Implementing DOGE Act''.
SEC. 2. ACROSS-THE-BOARD RESCISSIONS.
(a) Definitions.--In this Act:
(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) Excess growth percent.--The term ``excess growth
percent'' means the percentage in excess of one percent that
the total annual appropriations exceeded the previous fiscal
year's annual appropriations.
(4) 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.
(5) 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
House of Representatives; 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) Rescission.--For fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year
thereafter, effective on the day after the date on which appropriations
are made available through September 30 of the applicable fiscal year
for the entire Federal Government, there is rescinded, on a pro rata
basis, the excess growth percent of the nonsecurity discretionary
appropriations made available for such fiscal year.
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