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115TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 115–339 

PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION (H. 

CON. RES. 71) ESTABLISHING THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET FOR THE 

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 AND SETTING 

FORTH THE APPROPRIATE BUDGETARY LEVELS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2019 

THROUGH 2027 

OCTOBER 3, 2017.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

Mr. WOODALL, from the Committee on Rules, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany H. Res. 553] 

The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House 

Resolution 553, by a record vote of 9 to 4, report the same to the 

House with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted. 

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

The resolution provides for consideration of H. Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027, under a structured 

rule. The resolution provides four hours of general debate with 

three hours confined to the congressional budget equally divided 

and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the 

Committee on the Budget and one hour on the subject of economic 

goals and policies equally divided and controlled by Rep. Tiberi of 

Ohio and Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York or their respective 

designees. The resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the concurrent resolution and provides that the concurrent resolution shall be considered as read. The resolution makes 

in order only those amendments printed in this report. Each such 

amendment may be offered only in the order printed in this report, 

may be offered only by a Member designated in this report, shall 

be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in 

this report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an 

opponent, and shall not be subject to amendment. The resolution 

waives all points of order against the amendments printed in this 

report except that the adoption of an amendment in the nature of 

a substitute shall constitute the conclusion of consideration of the 

concurrent resolution for amendment. The resolution provides, 

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upon the conclusion of consideration of the concurrent resolution 

for amendment, a final period of general debate, which shall not 

exceed 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and 

ranking minority member of the Committee on the Budget. The 

resolution permits the Chair of the Budget Committee to offer 

amendments in the House pursuant to section 305(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to achieve mathematical consistency. 

The resolution provides that the concurrent resolution shall not be 

subject to a demand for division of the question of its adoption. 

EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

Although the resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the concurrent resolution, the Committee is not aware of 

any points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature. 

The waiver of all points order against the amendments printed 

in this report includes a waiver of clause 10(c) of rule XVIII, which 

prohibits amendments from proposing to change the appropriate 

level of public debt set forth in the concurrent resolution. 

COMMITTEE VOTES

The results of each record vote on an amendment or motion to 

report, together with the names of those voting for and against, are 

printed below: 

Rules Committee record vote No. 116 

Motion by Mr. McGovern to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for all submitted amendments to H. Con. Res. 71. 

Defeated: 4–9 

Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Mr. Cole ............................................................ Nay Ms. Slaughter .................................................. Yea 

Mr. Woodall ...................................................... Nay Mr. McGovern ................................................... Yea 

Mr. Burgess ...................................................... Nay Mr. Hastings of Florida ................................... Yea 

Mr. Collins ........................................................ Nay Mr. Polis ........................................................... Yea 

Mr. Byrne .......................................................... Nay 

Mr. Newhouse ................................................... Nay 

Mr. Buck ........................................................... Nay 

Ms. Cheney ....................................................... Nay 

Mr. Sessions, Chairman ................................... Nay 

Rules Committee record vote No. 117 

Motion by Mr. McGovern to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment # 1, offered by Rep. McGovern 

(MA) and Rep. Lujan Grisham (NM), which prevents cuts to the 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by exempting 

SNAP from reconciliation instruction. Prevents stricter time limits 

and more onerous work requirements in SNAP, and prevents the 

program from being converted into a block grant. Defeated: 4–9 

Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Mr. Cole ............................................................ Nay Ms. Slaughter .................................................. Yea 

Mr. Woodall ...................................................... Nay Mr. McGovern ................................................... Yea 

Mr. Burgess ...................................................... Nay Mr. Hastings of Florida ................................... Yea 

Mr. Collins ........................................................ Nay Mr. Polis ........................................................... Yea 

Mr. Byrne .......................................................... Nay 

Mr. Newhouse ................................................... Nay 

Mr. Buck ........................................................... Nay 

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Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Ms. Cheney ....................................................... Nay 

Mr. Sessions, Chairman ................................... Nay 

Rules Committee record vote No. 118 

Motion by Mr. Cole to report the rule. Adopted: 9–4 

Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Mr. Cole ............................................................ Yea Ms. Slaughter .................................................. Nay 

Mr. Woodall ...................................................... Yea Mr. McGovern ................................................... Nay 

Mr. Burgess ...................................................... Yea Mr. Hastings of Florida ................................... Nay 

Mr. Collins ........................................................ Yea Mr. Polis ........................................................... Nay 

Mr. Byrne .......................................................... Yea 

Mr. Newhouse ................................................... Yea 

Mr. Buck ........................................................... Yea 

Ms. Cheney ....................................................... Yea 

Mr. Sessions, Chairman ................................... Yea 

SUMMARY OF THE AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER

1. Pocan (WI), Grijalva (AZ): PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS SUBSTITUTE. Provides a practical, progressive vision for our country 

by investing $2 trillion in 21st century infrastructure and jobs, 

tackling inequality, making corporations pay for their fair share 

and strengthening essential public programs. Includes comprehensive immigration reform, which protects DACA, and provides $200 

billion for immediate hurricane disaster recovery efforts and climate change research. (30 minutes) 

2. Scott, Bobby (VA), Richmond (LA): CONGRESSIONAL 

BLACK CAUCUS (CBC) SUBSTITUTE. Makes significant investments in education, job training, transportation and infrastructure, 

and advanced research and development programs that will accelerate our economic recovery. It includes funding for a comprehensive jobs bill and targeted investments to reduce and eradicate poverty in America. Additionally, the CBC budget protects the social 

safety net without cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or 

SNAP. The CBC budget makes tough but responsible decisions to 

raise new revenue by making our tax system fairer, saving more 

than $2.5 trillion on the deficit over the next decade. The CBC 

Budget will put our nation on a sustainable fiscal path by reducing 

our annual budget deficit to 2.7% of GDP by FY 2027. (30 minutes) 

3. McClintock (CA), Walker (NC): REPUBLICAN STUDY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE. Secures America’s Future Economy by 

balancing the budget while bringing solvency to Social Security, 

Medicare, and the Federal Government, reforming the tax code, 

and providing for a strong national security. (30 minutes) 

4. Yarmuth (KY): DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS SUBSTITUTE. Focuses on fostering growth, creating good-paying jobs, and building 

an economy that works for everyone. It protects affordable health 

care for the middle class and struggling families, invests in America, and ensures national security. The resolution supports comprehensive immigration reform and disaster response funding to 

help Americans rebuild after the recent hurricanes. (30 minutes) 

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TEXT OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER

1. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE POCAN OF

WISCONSIN OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 30 MINUTES

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2018. 

(a) DECLARATION.—Congress declares that this concurrent resolution is the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018 

and sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 

2017 and 2019 through 2027. 

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this concurrent resolution is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT SPENDING 

Sec. 1. Direct spending. 

TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

Sec. 301. Point of order against advance Appropriations. 

Sec. 302. Point of order against funding for certain immigration enforcement efforts. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND 

AMOUNTS 

SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. 

The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal 

years 2017 through 2027: 

(1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution: 

(A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as 

follows: 

Fiscal year 2017: $2,566,010,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,231,053,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,754,112,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,852,015,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $4,011,871,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,197,338,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,295,865,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,405,818,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,617,110,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $4,840,032,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $5,069,484,000,000. 

(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2017: $0. 

Fiscal year 2018: $497,484,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $920,604,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $901,439,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $951,960,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2022: $1,014,422,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $977,949,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $943,390,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $994,932,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $1,050,654,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $1,111,097,000,000. 

(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the appropriate levels of 

total new budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2017: $3,558,164,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,809,501,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,889,380,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $4,085,946,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $4,242,299,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,524,849,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,667,232,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,840,870,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $5,123,649,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $5,359,292,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $5,604,559,000,000. 

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are as follows: Fiscal year 2017: $3,411,968,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,801,027,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,859,325,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $4,031,449,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $4,190,238,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,474,256,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,610,999,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,770,214,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $5,057,717,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $5,301,376,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $5,545,750,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of the enforcement 

of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits (onbudget) are as follows: Fiscal year 2017: -$845,569,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: -$569,974,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: -$569,974,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: -$179,434,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: -$178,367,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: -$276,918,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: -$315,134,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: -$364,396,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: -$440,607,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: -$461,344,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: -$476,266,000,000. 

(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The appropriate levels of debt 

subject to limit are as follows: Fiscal year 2017: $20,611,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $21,412,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $21,584,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $21,734,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $22,490,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2022: $22,950,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $23,489,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $24,111,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $24,809,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $25,597,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $26,305,000,000. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appropriate levels of 

debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2017: $15,093,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: $15,752,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $15,985,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $16,322,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $16,693,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $17,202,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $17,794,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $18,483,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $19,300,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $20,195,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $21,166,000,000. 

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of 

new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2017 through 

2027 for each major functional category are: 

(1) National Defense (050): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $620,810,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $597,390,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $570,786,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $573,048,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $581,900,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $575,522,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $594,087,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $582,924,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $609,309,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $594,652,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $623,521,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $611,949,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $637,690,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $620,850,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $655,897,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $632,247,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $670,145,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $651,864,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $680,394,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $663,759,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

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(A) New budget authority, $690,786,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $674,679,000,000. 

(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $65,918,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,533,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $55,508,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,831,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $60,425,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $55,384,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $64,369,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $59,870,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, 69,575,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,106,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $73,547,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $69,255,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $76,986,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $73,094,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $80,697,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $76,618,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $84,476,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $80,127,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $88,702,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $83,952,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $92,835,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $87,887,000,000. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,562,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,853,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $35,239,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,151,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $37,743,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $35,678,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,747,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,880,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $42,204,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,117,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $44,567,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,522,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,123,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,442,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $47,766,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $46,120,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $49,490,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $47,818,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $51,349,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,597,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $53,198,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,390,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,003,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,017,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $57,581,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $54,382,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $59,900,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $56,610,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $61,645,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $58,813,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $63,511,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $$60,658,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $65,073,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,314,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $64,918,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,631,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $65,290,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $63,142,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $66,119,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,100,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $69,437,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $67,375,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $70,575,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,547,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $40,851,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,010,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $122,495,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $122,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $125,237,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $124,382,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $128,313,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $127,136,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $69,915,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,294,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $72,613,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $70,715,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $74,531,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $72,930,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $76,400,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $74,852,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $78,455,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $76,818,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $80,604,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $78,839,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $82,820,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $81,015,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,930,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,001,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,023,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,713,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,735,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,240,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,298,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,479,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,431,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,832,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,437,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,941,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,610,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,178,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,068,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,514,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,832,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $19,180,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,105,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,475,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,938,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,328,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$2,759,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$19,274,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,131,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,689,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,724,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $11,883,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,714,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $13,516,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,953,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $12,786,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,781,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $15,622,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $28,145,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $16,679,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $29,608,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,099,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,576,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,836,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,416,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,772,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,478,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,628,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $92,730,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $94,107,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $199,383,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $199,409,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $201,464,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $200,565,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $196,098,000,000. 

(B) Outlays,$202,143,000,000 . 

Fiscal year 2021: 

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(A) New budget authority, $197,000,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $203,522,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $197,935,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $205,038,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $171,562,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $179,442,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $172,521,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $181,132,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $173,548,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $183,231,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $174,584,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $185,116,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $175,633,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $187,060,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $169,950,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $100,381,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,864,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $79,569,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,802,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $53,477,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $34,464,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,662,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,469,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,830,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $38,390,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,016,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,481,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,242,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $40,662,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,177,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $41,888,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $40,250,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $43,244,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,353,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $44,235,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,428,000,000. 

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(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $266,792,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $264,242,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $298,769,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $295,251,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $166,530,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $168,879,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $176,656,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $172,182,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $188,094,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $182,789,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $197,237,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $192,067,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $204,174,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $200,177,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $210,915,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $207,028,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $216,669,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $212,774,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $222,127,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $218,112,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $228,312,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $224,320,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $548,466,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $548,998,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $578,564,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $585,289,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $613,743,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $612,402,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $659,060,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $646,374,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $687,535,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $683,765,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $726,450,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $721,843,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

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(A) New budget authority, $765,397,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $761,755,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $807,017,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $802,573,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $852,005,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $846,941,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $897,043,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $891,673,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $943,870,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $938,235,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $598,691,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $598,289,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $599,471,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $599,092,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $650,772,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $650,464,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $676,942,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $676,705,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $723,379,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $723,163,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $817,925,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, .$817,695,000,000 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $840,589,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $840,371,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $861,276,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $861,049,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $963,021,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $962,774,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,016,987,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,016,734,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,091,254,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,091,006,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $522,238,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, 512,949,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $574,926,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $554,174,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $641,400,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $624,323,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $691,701,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $675,708,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $737,828,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $721,824,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $785,273,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $775,704,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $819,551,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $807,162,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $855,396,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $837,727,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $904,334,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $887,787,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $947,417,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $937,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $995,029,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $984,004,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,132,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $36,155,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,621,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,621,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $43,402,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,402,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,861,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $46,861,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,700,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,700,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $54,722,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $54,722,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $59,082,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $59,082,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $64,228,000,000. 

(B) Outlays,$64,228,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $69,774,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $69,774,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $75,499,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $75,499,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $81,931,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $81,931,000,000. 

(15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $175,596,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $178,660,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $185,736,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $183,609,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $204,230,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $199,677,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $213,730,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $209,577,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $223,712,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $219,141,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $243,263,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $238,540,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $242,677,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $238,676,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $241,394,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $237,627,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $261,285,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $257,403,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $271,033,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $266,912,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $281,497,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $277,377,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $64,048,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $57,167,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $72,673,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,686,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $66,260,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,774,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $69,134,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $70,886,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $72,276,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $75,047,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $74,994,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $76,549,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $77,448,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $77,463,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $80,013,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $78,824,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $82,656,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $81,269,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $91,519,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $90,803,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $95,033,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $93,445,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,587,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,500,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $27,332,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,239,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $28,023,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,092,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $28,670,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,024,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $29,373,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,752,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,095,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,512,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,804,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,231,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,369,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,813,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,195,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,559,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,041,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,384,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,873,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,207,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

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(A) New budget authority, $358,153,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $358,153,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $379,086,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $379,086,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $408,318,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $408,318,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $444,136,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $444,136,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $482,207,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $482,207,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $518,277,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $518,277,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $554,698,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $554,698,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $588,258,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $588,258,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $621,248,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $621,248,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $654,736,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $654,736,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $682,812, 000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $682,937,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$886,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $515,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,852,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $16,580,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $9,233,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $9,714,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,552,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,804,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$156,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $69,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$223,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$1,215,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$1,084,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

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(A) New budget authority, $200,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $291,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$200,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$168,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,018,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $971,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,690,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,565,000,000. 

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2017: 

(A) New budget authority, -$83,167,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$83,167,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$82,782,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$82,782,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$85,754,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$85,754,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$85,454,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$85,454,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$87,183,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$87,183,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$88,846,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$88,846,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$89,285,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$89,285,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$92,809,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$92,809,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$101,023,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$101,023,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, -$98,551,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$98,551,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, -$101,256,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$101,256,000,000. 

TITLE II—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT 

SPENDING 

SEC. 1. DIRECT SPENDING. 

(a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— (1) For means-tested direct spending, the average rate of 

growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period 

preceding fiscal year 2018 is 6.8 percent. 

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(2) For means-tested direct spending, the estimated average 

rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 11-year 

period beginning with fiscal year 2017 is 4.3 percent under current law. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution for means-tested direct spending: 

(A) The People’s Budget adopts former President 

Obama’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to expand eligibility, including for childless workers. Continues enhanced credits originally implemented under the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act to target those most in 

need. This includes extending the Child and Dependent 

Care Credit and the American Opportunity Tax Credit 

through 2027. 

(B) The People’s Budget includes former President 

Obama’s proposal to boost the Child Tax Credit maximum 

deduction to $3,000. It makes key expansions permanent 

to protect 50 million Americans who would otherwise be at 

jeopardy for losing part or all of their EITC and CTC. 

(C) The People’s Budget creates a debt free college that 

provides Federal matching program to support state efforts 

to expand investment in higher education, bring down 

costs for students, and increase aid to students to help 

them cover the total cost of college attendance without taking on debt. The program would encourage innovation by 

states and colleges to improve efficiency and enable speedy 

and less-costly degree completion. By treating higher education as a public good worth investing in, we can once 

again make higher education accessible to all. 

(D) The People’s Budget allows students to refinance 

their student loans at low rates and allows private borrowers to shift to more affordable government loans. Allowing student borrowers to reduce the value of their debt 

will free up income for purchases and will create a job-creating ripple effect throughout the entire economy. 

(E) The People’s Budget restores cuts made to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and permanently adopts the enhanced levels established in the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The vast majority of SNAP recipients are households with children, seniors and individuals with disabilities, but recent cuts lowered average benefits by $216 in 2014. Providing families 

with basic food security through SNAP is one of the most 

effective ways the Federal Government can stimulate the 

economy. 

(F) The People’s Budget provides an additional $10.8 billion for child nutrition programs including program expansion and improvements for summer meals; essential improvements and expansion funding for preschool nutrition 

including increases in meal reimbursements to fulfill the 

new meal pattern, an additional meal or snack for children 

in long-term care, and expanded program eligibility; and 

investments in school meals and school kitchens. 

(G) The People’s Budget replaces the 40 percent excise 

tax with a public option to allow the Secretary of Health 

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and Human Services to offer a public insurance option 

within the health insurance marketplaces. This ensures 

choice, competition, and stability in coverage. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the premium costs 

for Americans under the public option will be 7 to 8 percent lower than costs in private exchange plans. The repeal of the excise tax costs $132 billion while savings from 

the public option are $176 billion. 

(H) The People’s Budget continues funding for the entire 

CHIP program until 2020. 

(I) The People’s Budget protects States programs by fully 

retaining maintenance of effort requirements and eliminating any States ability to arbitrarily implement enrollment caps. Without action, Federal funding for CHIP will 

expire jeopardizing the health care coverage of more than 

10 million children and pregnant women. 

(J) The People’s Budget permits the Secretary of Health 

and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate prescription drug 

prices with pharmaceutical manufacturers. Giving HHS 

the ability to negotiate prices, as the Department of Veterans Affairs currently does, will save Medicare $429 billion and will reduce costs for seniors. 

(b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— (1) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the average rate of 

growth in the total level of outlays during the 10-year period 

preceding fiscal year 2018 is 4.8 percent. 

(2) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, the estimated average rate of growth in the total level of outlays during the 11- 

year period beginning with fiscal year 2017 is 5.6 percent 

under current law. 

(3) The following reforms are proposed in this concurrent 

resolution for nonmeans-tested direct spending: 

(A) The People’s Budget allows those who have lost a job 

through no fault of their own to claim up to 99 weeks of 

unemployment benefits in high-unemployment states for 

up to two years. 

(B) The People’s Budget also adopts former President 

Obama’s reforms to improve solvencies and incentivize job 

training. 

(C) The People’s Budget improves the Affordable Care 

Act by repealing the excise tax on high-priced health 

plans. Proponents of the provision hoped that this tax 

would slow the rate of growth of health costs, while raising 

revenue. However, in an effort to avoid the tax, employers 

who traditionally offer excellent benefits have started offering less generous plans. This is an ineffective tool to 

bend the cost curve. Since the tax is attached to premiums 

instead of coverage it has the potential to hit plans it 

wasn’t intended to impact. 

(D) The People’s Budget establishes a representative democracy that truly reflects the diversity and values of our 

nation by providing funding for the public financing of 

campaigns. This gives a voice to small donors that have 

been drowned out by dark money. Public financing keeps 

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stead of to special interest money. In the era of the devastating Citizens United decision, big money has taken the 

reins of our election process. It is now more important 

than ever to provide candidates with effective alternatives 

to finance their campaigns. 

(E) The People’s Budget uses the Experimental Price 

Index for the Elderly (CPI-E) to calculate Cost of Living 

Adjustments (COLA) for Federal retirement programs 

other than Social Security. Affected programs include civil 

service retirement, military retirement, Supplemental Security Income, veteran’s pensions and compensations. CPIE is the most sensible and accurate measure of the real 

costs that seniors face in retirement, current underpricing 

of costs amount to cutting benefits for those on fixed incomes. 

(G) The People’s Budget makes a down payment of $1.9 

trillion to help close the nation’s infrastructure deficit 

while protecting against climate change and creating millions of living wage jobs. The budget also helps boost private financing for critical state and local projects by creating a public-private infrastructure bank. The American 

Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates that the 

United States will need to invest upwards of $2 trillion 

above current levels over the next decade just to make required repairs to roads, bridges, water, and energy systems. 

TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS BUDGET 

ENFORCEMENT 

SEC. 301. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, except as provided in subsection 

(b), any bill, joint resolution, amendment or conference report making a general appropriations or continuing appropriation may not 

provide for advance appropriations. 

(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Advance appropriations may be provided for all 

programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘advance appropriation’’ means any new discretionary budget authority provided in a 

bill or joint resolution making general appropriations or any new 

discretionary budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution 

making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018 that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2018. 

SEC. 302. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST FUNDING FOR CERTAIN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS. 

It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives or the 

Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that appropriates funds to implement Executive Order 13767, entitled ‘‘Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements’’. 

Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘Concurrent resolution setting forth 

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cal year 2018 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for 

fiscal year 2017 and fiscal years 2018-2027’’. 

2. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT OF

VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 30 MINUTES

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2018. 

The Congress determines and declares that this concurrent resolution establishes the budget for fiscal year 2018 and sets forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

SEC. 2. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. 

The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal 

years 2018 through 2027: 

(1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution: 

(A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as 

follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,944,569,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,089,508,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,274,576,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,420,911,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,596,916,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,749,916,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,965,428,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,166,178,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $4,361,378,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $4,619,387,000,000. 

(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $211,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $256,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $324,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $361,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $414,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $432,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $503,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $544,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $572,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $661,000,000,000. 

(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the appropriate levels of 

total new budget authority are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,875,166,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,829,543,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,845,871,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,920,549,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,149,670,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,282,139,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,411,746,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,653,359,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $4,865,876,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $5,058,527,000,000. 

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(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this concurrent resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $3,538,175,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,808,907,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,890,015,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,963, 843,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,167,060,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,267,110,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,373,622,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,615,778,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $4,833,878,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $5,032,183,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of the enforcement 

of this concurrent resolution, the amounts of the deficits (onbudget) are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: -$593,606,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: -$719,399,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: -$615,439,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: -$542,932,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: -$570,144,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: -$517,194,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: -$408,194,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: -$449,600,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: -$472,500,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: -$412,796,000,000. 

(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The appropriate levels of the 

public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $21,175,683,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $22,085,529,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $22,866,575,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $23,578,811,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $24,291,408,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $24,985,937,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $25,599,925,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $26,248,973,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $26,981,444,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $27,552,527,000,000. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appropriate levels of 

debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $15,515,893,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $16,336,714,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $17,080,338,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $17,782,001,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $18,543,046,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $19,291,339,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $19,972,026,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $20,739,642,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $21,579,464,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $22,413,681,000,000. 

SEC. 3. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

The Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2018 

through 2027 for each major functional category are: 

(1) National Defense (050): 

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Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $611,786,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $583,502,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $624,900,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $605,816,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $638,087,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $620,966,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $651,309,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $634,689,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $664,521,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $652,811,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $678,690,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $661,612,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $692,897,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $670,504,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $707,145,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $689,091,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $722,394,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $703,660,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $737,634,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $718,554,000,000. 

(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $48,264,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,815,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,630,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,945,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,563,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $42,812,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,563,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,970,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $45,705,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,635,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,744,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $45,271,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $47,817,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $46,175,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $48,897,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $47,039,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $49,539,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $47,725,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $50,634,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $48,596,000,000. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $35,234,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,128,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $33,889,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,653,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $34,557,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,013,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $35,281,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,539,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $36,036,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $35,337,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $36,793,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $36,033,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $37,059,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $36,498,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $37,885,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,138,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $38,717,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,900,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,555,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,703,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $8,500,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,864,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $7,468,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,614,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,876,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,684,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,507,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,334,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,459,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,169,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,504,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $4,195,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $4,997,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,712,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $4,926,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,746,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $7,216,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,054,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $7,341,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,248,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $45,791,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,939,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $45,710,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $45,911,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $46,980,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $46,966,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $46,986,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $47,068,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $48,107,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $47,647,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $49,257,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $48,620,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $50,280,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,582,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $51,469,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,643,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $52,625,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,731,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $53,866,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,965,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,223,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,691,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,035,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,664,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,998,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,211,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

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(A) New budget authority, $23,231,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,614,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $21,737,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,490,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $21,910,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,549,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $22,468,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,933,000,000.. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $23,232,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,586,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $23,505,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,867,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $23,373,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,755,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $15,050,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $2,075,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $16,792,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,377,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $16,445,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,435,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $14,949,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,120,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $17,167,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,317,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $17,731,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,204,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,315,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,672,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,383,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,499,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,195,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,468,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,244,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,346,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $412,246,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $260,375,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $309,646,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $302,342,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $191,199,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $246,432,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $97,422,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $162,071,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $98,379,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $129,557,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $99,348,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $115,488,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $100,330,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $111,477,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $101,381,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $110,947,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $102,441,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $112,855,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $103,514,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $114,823,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $41,581,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,517,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $36,840,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,726,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $27,338,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,834,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,297,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,883,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,806,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,354,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,296,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,249,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,298,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,080,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,839,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,489,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,384,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,071,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $26,080,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,400,000,000. 

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $176,935,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $142,001,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $165,585,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $165,987,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $158,570,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $159,597,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $162,088,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $160,233,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $164,843,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $163,705,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $156,826,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $160,066,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $156,277,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $157,407,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $156,679,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $156,729,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $158,996,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $157,914,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $146,273,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $151,875,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $573,434,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $580,091,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $602,568,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $604,320,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $646,496,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $637,447,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $669,270,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $666,179,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $702,953,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $696,993,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $735,459,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $728,890,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

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(A) New budget authority, $772,591,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $763,909,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $810,799,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $801,662,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $849,471,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $839,223,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $890,688,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $879,028,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $601,682,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $601,303,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $672,626,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $672,318,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $720,653,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $720,416,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $775,853,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $775,637,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $871,247,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $871,017,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $896,829,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $896,611,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $920,920,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $920,693,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,028,532,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,028,285,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,093,424,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,093,171,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,176,028,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,175,780,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $528,718,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $508,933,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $541,318,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $538,787,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $554,195,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $554,966,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $567,182,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $569,833,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $583,720,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $594,084,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $592,625,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $598,840,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $601,577,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $602,988,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $621,241,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $625,226,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $636,800,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $648,216,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $653,208,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $664,923,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $39,475,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,475,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $43,016,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,016,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $46,287,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $46,287,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $49,748,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,748,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $53,392,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $53,392,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $57,378,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $57,378,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $61,764,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $61,764,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $66,388,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,388,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $70,871,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $70,871,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $75,473,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $75,473,000,000. 

(15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $183,573,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $181,049,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $198,367,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $195,432,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $203,192,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $201,863,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $209,704,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $207,846,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $225,035,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $223,431,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $222,849,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $220,873,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $217,808,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $216,712,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $235,899,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $234,040,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $243,591,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $241,380,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $252,030,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $249,835,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $70,592,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $63,596,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $62,328,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,092,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $63,865,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,733,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $65,272,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $69,336,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $65,880,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,965,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $67,534,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,559,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $69,220,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,916,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $70,963,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $70,438,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $78,798,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $78,991,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $81,299,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $80,655,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $27,065,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,734,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $27,477,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,458,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $28,100,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,418,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $28,777,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,134,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $29,473,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,882,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $30,156,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,575,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $30,693,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,129,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $31,492,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,848,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $32,309,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,644,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $33,111,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,437,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $377,635,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $377,635,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $413,674,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $413,674,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $461,176,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $461,176,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $512,434,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $512,434,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $560,400,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $560,400,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $605,893,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $605,893,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $644,696,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $644,696,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

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(A) New budget authority, $679,742,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $679,742,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $714,720,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $714,720,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $743,060,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $743,185,000,000. 

(19) Non-Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $134,164,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $70,964,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $43,428,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,529,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $18,748,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,212,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $20,859,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $29,359,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $18,656,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,721,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $24,602,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,491,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $29,548,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,587,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $32,490,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,268,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $43,431,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,971,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $47,372,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $47,860,000,000. 

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$82,782,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$82,782,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$85,754,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$85,754,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$85,454,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$85,454,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$87,183,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$87,183,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$88,846,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$88,846,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$89,285,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$89,285,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$92,809,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$92,809,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$101,023,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$101,023,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, -$98,551,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$98,551,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, -$101,256,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$101,256,000,000. 

(21) Overseas Contingency Operations (970): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

3. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCCLINTOCK OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 30 MINUTES

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: 

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SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2018. 

(a) DECLARATION.—The Congress determines and declares that 

this concurrent resolution establishes the budget for fiscal year 

2018 and sets forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 

2019 through 2027. 

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this concurrent resolution is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the house of representatives. 

TITLE III—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement in the House of Representatives 

Sec. 301. Point of order against increasing long-term direct spending. 

Sec. 302. Allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism. 

Sec. 303. Limitation on changes in certain mandatory programs. 

Sec. 304. GAO report. 

Sec. 305. Estimates of debt service costs. 

Sec. 306. Fair-value credit estimates. 

Sec. 307. Estimates of major direct spending legislation. 

Sec. 308. Estimates of macroeconomic effects of major legislation. 

Sec. 309. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources. 

Sec. 310. Limitation on advance appropriations. 

Sec. 311. Scoring rule for Energy Savings Performance Contracts. 

Sec. 312. Estimates of land conveyances. 

Sec. 313. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the 

Highway Trust Fund. 

Sec. 314. Prohibition on the use of guarantee fees as an offset. 

Sec. 315. Prohibition on use of Federal Reserve surpluses as an offset. 

Subtitle B—Other Provisions 

Sec. 321. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses. 

Sec. 322. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. 

Sec. 323. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. 

Sec. 324. Adjustments to reflect updated budgetary estimates. 

Sec. 325. Adjustment for certain emergency designations. 

Sec. 326. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 

TITLE IV—RESERVE FUNDS 

Sec. 401. Reserve fund for the repeal of the 2010 health care laws. 

Sec. 402. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for additional measures relating to the replacement of Obamacare. 

Sec. 403. Deficit-neutral reserve fund related to the Medicare provisions of the 

2010 health care laws. 

Sec. 404. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for reforming the tax code. 

Sec. 405. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for trade agreements. 

Sec. 406. Reserve fund for revenue measures. 

Sec. 407. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for infrastructure reform. 

Sec. 408. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to reduce poverty and increase opportunity 

and upward mobility. 

Sec. 409. Implementation of a deficit and long-term debt reduction agreement. 

Sec. 410. Deficit-neutral reserve account for reforming SNAP. 

Sec. 411. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Social Security Disability Insurance Reform. 

Sec. 412. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for Federal retirement reform. 

Sec. 413. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for defense sequester replacement. 

Sec. 414. Reserve fund for commercialization of air traffic control. 

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TITLE V—POLICY STATEMENTS 

Sec. 501. Policy statement on Obamacare repeal. 

Sec. 502. Policy statement on replacing Obamacare. 

Sec. 503. Policy statement on Medicare. 

Sec. 504. Policy statement on Medicaid State flexibility block grants. 

Sec. 505. Policy statement on Social Security. 

Sec. 506. Policy statement on means-tested welfare programs. 

Sec. 507. Policy statement on reform of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. 

Sec. 508. Policy statement on work requirements. 

Sec. 509. Policy statement on a carbon tax. 

Sec. 510. Policy statement on economic growth and job creation. 

Sec. 511. Policy statement on tax reform. 

Sec. 512. Policy statement on trade. 

Sec. 513. Policy statement on energy production. 

Sec. 514. Policy statement on Federal regulatory budgeting and reform. 

Sec. 515. Policy statement on Federal funding of abortion. 

Sec. 516. Policy statement on transportation reform. 

Sec. 517. Policy statement on the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Sec. 518. Policy statement on reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and unauthorized 

spending. 

Sec. 519. Policy statement on a balanced budget amendment. 

Sec. 520. Policy statement on deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances. 

Sec. 521. Policy statement on reforming the congressional budget process. 

Sec. 522. Policy statement on Federal accounting. 

Sec. 523. Policy statement on agency fees and spending. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND 

AMOUNTS 

SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. 

The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal 

years 2018 through 2027: 

(1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this resolution: 

(A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as 

follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,668,877,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $2,756,890,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $2,850,457,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $2,947,616,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,079,775,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,210,906,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,349,213,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,502,499,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $3,672,058,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $3,842,299,000,000. 

(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: -$64,692,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: -$76,618,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: -$100,119,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: -$112,295,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: -$103,141,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: -$107,010,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: -$113,215,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: -$119,679,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: -$117,320,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2027: -$116,088,000,000. 

(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total new 

budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $2,869,547,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $2,894,948,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $2,895,989,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $2,925,467,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,056,667,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,054,334,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,152,483,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,296,588,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $3,397,043,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $3,451,336,000,000. 

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays 

are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,809,440,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $2,876,701,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $2,881,466,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $2,955,056,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,056,336,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,039,746,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,124,286,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,264,841,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $3,380,506,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $3,435,219,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS.—For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the amounts of the deficits are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $140,563,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $119,811,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $31,009,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $7,440,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: -$23,439,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: -$171,160,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: -$224,927,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: -$237,658,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: -$291,552,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: -$407,080,000,000. 

(5) PUBLIC DEBT.—Pursuant to section 301(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632(a)(5)), the appropriate levels of the public debt are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $20,705,790,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $21,342,481,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $21,881,784,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $22,365,586,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $22,732,612,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $22,971,856,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $ 23,180,660,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $23,283,603,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $23,324,552,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $23,082,487,000,000. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appropriate levels of 

debt held by the public are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $15,046,000,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2019: $15,593,666,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $16,095,547,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $16,568,776,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $16,984,250,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $17,277,258,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $17,552,761,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $17,774,272,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $17,922,572,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $17,943,641,000,000. 

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

The Congress determines and declares that the budgetary levels 

of new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2018 through 

2027 for each major functional category are: 

(1) National Defense (050): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $676,050,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $652,657,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $676,241,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $651,644,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $676,460,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $650,005,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $674,719,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $647,508,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $673,902,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $660,780,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $688,039,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $673,944,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $702,217,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $684,734,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $716,434,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $703,603,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $732,456,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $719,347,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $747,635,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $734,397,000,000. 

(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,236,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,424,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,568,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,103,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,517,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,810,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

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(A) New budget authority, $21,508,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,469,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,270,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,485,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,068,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,712,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,881,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,222,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,712,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,885,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,636,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,669,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,168,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,148,000,000. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,308,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,519,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,775,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,977,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,253,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,986,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,767,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,276,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,304,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,709,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,844,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,141,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,393,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,567,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,979,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,050,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,573,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,549,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $27,172,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,041,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$8,602,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$2,530,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$4,244,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$5,977,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$16,964,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$17,686,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$3,169,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$4,702,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$3,537,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$5,190,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$4,421,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$5,716,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$4,734,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$5,847,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$5,297,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$6,261,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, -$3,080,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$4,096,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, -$3,103,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$4,023,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,767,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,952,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,537,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $27,056,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,593,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,854,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $25,691,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,651,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,868,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,566,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,593,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,211,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,062,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,672,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,353,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $25,908,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,671,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,184,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $26,910,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,423,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $14,107,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $13,344,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $9,013,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,632,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $9,551,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $9,313,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,276,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,084,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $7,061,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,864,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $7,335,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,157,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $7,647,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,424,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $8,077,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,817,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $8,397,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,139,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $8,968,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,702,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$8,186,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$22,020,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$9,217,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$19,316,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$12,865,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$22,514,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$15,782,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$25,946,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$14,917,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$26,024,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$14,287,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$26,184,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$12,818,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, -$26,083,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$11,941,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$26,606,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, -$12,981,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$27,462,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, -$13,895,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$28,552,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $83,577,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $87,088,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $84,185,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $85,804,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $78,240,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $85,577,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $34,883,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $73,156,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $61,918,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $60,185,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $62,040,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $63,708,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $62,551,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,529,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $63,337,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $63,885,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $64,366,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $63,747,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $65,450,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,337,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,198,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $13,646,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,014,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $12,275,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,020,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,434,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,058,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $6,715,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

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(A) New budget authority, $3,206,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,562,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,197,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,751,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,232,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,282,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,337,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,275,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,463,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,278,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $3,336,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,239,000,000. 

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $48,903,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,454,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $53,383,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $54,945,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $51,158,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,683,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,256,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,598,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $48,825,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,530,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,483,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,228,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $49,941,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,665,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $49,334,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,210,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $49,170,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,141,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $49,302,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,344,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $454,509,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $432,501,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $435,341,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $439,994,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $457,516,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $448,856,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $450,448,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $455,861,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $456,758,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $461,189,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $465,309,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $466,743,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $473,437,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $471,674,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $479,987,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $476,960,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $484,487,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $481,009,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $483,275,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $485,571,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $591,229,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $590,967,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $650,283,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $650,040,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $674,221,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $674,017,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $707,798,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $707,601,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $778,613,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $778,407,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $774,353,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $774,163,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $774,204,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $774,007,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $842,125,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $841,909,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $924,327,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $924,102,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $989,487,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $989,265,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $472,681,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $458,878,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $427,283,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $418,415,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $433,650,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $424,439,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $438,723,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $430,323,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $442,003,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $439,172,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $421,768,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $415,075,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $428,653,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $417,101,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $434,146,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $423,466,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $441,856,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $436,970,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $448,955,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $443,434,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,475,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,475,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $43,016,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,016,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,287,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $46,287,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $49,748,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,748,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $53,392,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $53,392,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $57,378,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $57,378,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $61,764,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $61,764,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

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(A) New budget authority, $66,388,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,388,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $70,871,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $70,871,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $75,473,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $75,473,000,000. 

(15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $176,704,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $178,038,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $191,507,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $190,235,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $194,930,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $193,931,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $199,751,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $197,856,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $215,442,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $213,337,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $212,567,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $210,444,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $209,943,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $207,908,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $227,991,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $225,820,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $234,947,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $232,660,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $243,718,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $241,501,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $49,987,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $59,438,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $56,597,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $57,202,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $58,054,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $58,361,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $59,354,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $59,249,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $60,365,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $60,203,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $61,908,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $61,705,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $63,488,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $63,252,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $65,105,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,669,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $68,048,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,333,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $68,351,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $67,818,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $17,757,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,400,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $17,972,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,497,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $17,346,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,159,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $16,959,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $16,817,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $16,488,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $16,407,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,594,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,325,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,274,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $19,140,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,930,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,796,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,518,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $18,400,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,035,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $17,942,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $373,956,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $373,956,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $399,575,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $399,575,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $432,397,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $432,397,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $464,410,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $464,410,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $492,279,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $492,279,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $516,440,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $516,440,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $532,410,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $532,410,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $544,916,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $544,916,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $555,256,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $555,256,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $554,858,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $554,969,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$103,895,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$139,536,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$122,471,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$113,004,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$192,059,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$164,127,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$192,585,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$160,271,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$213,001,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$185,944,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$239,872,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$219,297,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$186,688,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$167,764,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$165,184,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$150,710,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, -$201,905,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$176,558,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, -$237,951,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$216,002,000,000. 

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

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(A) New budget authority, -$83,212,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$83,212,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$86,409,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$86,409,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$86,316,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$86,316,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$90,347,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$90,347,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$93,573,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$93,573,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$100,001,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$100,001,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$105,371,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$105,371,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$115,139,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$115,139,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, -$117,033,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$117,033,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, -$127,808,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$127,808,000,000. 

(21) Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (970): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

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Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $0. 

TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 

SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

(a) SUBMISSION PROVIDING FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION.—Not later 

than 90 days after the adoption of this resolution, the committees 

named in subsection (b) shall submit their recommendations on 

changes in laws within their jurisdictions to the Committee on the 

Budget that would achieve the specified reduction in the deficit for 

the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

(b) INSTRUCTIONS.— 

(1) COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE.—The Committee on Agriculture shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $327,704,000,000 for the period 

of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

(2) COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES.—The Committee on 

Armed Services shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $32,601,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

(3) COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE.—The 

Committee on Education and the Workforce shall submit 

changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the 

deficit by $441,015,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2018 

through 2027. 

(4) COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE.—The Committee 

on Energy and Commerce shall submit changes in laws within 

its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by 

$2,665,188,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2018 through 

2027. 

(5) COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES.—The Committee on 

Financial Services shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $154,083,000,000 

for the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

(6) COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY.—The Committee on 

Homeland Security shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $24,689,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

(7) COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.—The Committee on the 

Judiciary shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction 

sufficient to reduce the deficit by $67,178,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

(8) COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES.—The Committee on 

Natural Resources shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $59,302,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

(9) COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM.— The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall 

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duce the deficit by $447,960,000,000 for the period of fiscal 

years 2018 through 2027. 

(10) COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE.—The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient 

to reduce the deficit by $5,561,000,000 for the period of fiscal 

years 2018 through 2027. 

(11) COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS.—The Committee on 

Veterans’ Affairs shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $49,022,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

(12) COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.—The Committee on 

Ways and Means shall submit changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce the deficit by $1,417,836,000,000 for 

the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

(c) REVISION OF BUDGETARY LEVELS.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Representatives, the chair 

of the Committee on the Budget may file appropriately revised 

allocations, aggregates, and functional levels upon the consideration of a reconciliation measure under section 310 of the 

Congressional Budget Act of 1974 or amendment thereto, or 

the submission of a conference report to the House of Representatives pursuant to this section, if it is in compliance with 

the reconciliation directives by virtue of section 310(c) of the 

Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

(2) REVISION.—Allocations and aggregates revised pursuant 

to this subsection shall be considered to be the allocations and 

aggregates established by this concurrent resolution on the 

budget pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget 

Act of 1974. 

(d) PURPOSE OF RECONCILIATION INSTRUCTIONS.—It is the policy 

of this resolution that the reconciliation instructions provided pursuant to this section are to be used for— 

(1) enacting the mandatory spending reforms recommended 

by this resolution; and 

(2) enacting comprehensive tax reform. 

TITLE III—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT 

Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement in the 

House of Representatives 

SEC. 301. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST INCREASING LONG-TERM DIRECT 

SPENDING. 

(a) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ANALYSIS OF PROPOSALS.— 

The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to the extent 

practicable, prepare an estimate of whether a measure would cause 

a net increase in direct spending in the House of Representatives, 

in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal 

year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 fiscal 

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priation measure and any amendment thereto or conference report 

thereon. 

(b) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in order in the House of 

Representatives to consider any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that would cause a net 

increase in direct spending in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of 

the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal year periods described in subsection (a). 

(c) LIMITATION.—In the House of Representatives, the provisions 

of this section shall not apply to any bills or joint resolutions, or 

amendments thereto or conference reports thereon, for which the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget has made adjustments to the 

allocations, levels, or limits contained in this concurrent resolution 

pursuant to section 401. 

(d) DETERMINATIONS OF BUDGET LEVELS.—For purposes of this 

section, the levels of net increases in direct spending shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 302. ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/ 

GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM. 

(a) SEPARATE ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.—In the House of Representatives, there shall be a separate allocation of new budget authority 

and outlays provided to the Committee on Appropriations for the 

purposes of Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism, which shall be deemed to be an allocation under section 

302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Section 302(a)(3) 

of such Act shall not apply to such separate allocation. 

(b) 302 ALLOCATIONS.—The separate allocation referred to in subsection (a) shall be the exclusive allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism under section 302(b) of 

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. The Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives may provide suballocations of such separate allocation under such section 302(b). 

(c) APPLICATION.—For purposes of enforcing the separate allocation referred to in subsection (a) under section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the ‘‘first fiscal year’’ and the ‘‘total 

of fiscal years’’ shall be deemed to refer to fiscal year 2018. Section 

302(c) of such Act shall not apply to such separate allocation. 

(d) DESIGNATIONS.—New budget authority or outlays shall only 

be counted toward the allocation referred to in subsection (a) if designated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 

(e) ADJUSTMENTS.—For purposes of subsection (a) for fiscal year 

2018, no adjustment shall be made under section 314(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if any adjustment would be made 

under section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 

(f) ADJUSTMENTS TO FUND OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/ 

GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.—In the House of Representatives, the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations, 

aggregates, and other appropriate budgetary levels related to Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism or the allocation under section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 

to the Committee on Appropriations set forth in the report or joint 

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explanatory statement of managers, as applicable, accompanying 

this concurrent resolution to account for new information. 

SEC. 303. LIMITATION ON CHANGES IN CERTAIN MANDATORY PROGRAMS. 

(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘change in mandatory 

programs’’ means a provision that— 

(1) would have been estimated as affecting direct spending or 

receipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to September 30, 2002) if the provision was included in legislation 

other than appropriation Acts; and 

(2) results in a net decrease in budget authority in the budget year, but does not result in a net decrease in outlays over 

the period of the total of the current year, the budget year, and 

all fiscal years covered under the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget. 

(b) POINT OF ORDER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—A provision in a bill or joint resolution 

making appropriations for a full fiscal year that proposes a 

change in mandatory programs that, if enacted, would cause 

the absolute value of the total budget authority of all such 

change in mandatory programs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to be more than the amount specified in paragraph (3), 

shall not be in order in the House of Representatives. 

(2) AMENDMENTS AND CONFERENCE REPORTS.—It shall not be 

in order in the House of Representatives to consider an amendment to, or a conference report on, a bill or joint resolution 

making appropriations for a full fiscal year if such amendment 

thereto or conference report thereon proposes a change in mandatory programs that, if enacted, would cause the absolute 

value of the total budget authority of all such change in mandatory programs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to be 

more than the amount specified in paragraph (3). 

(3) AMOUNT.—The amount specified in this paragraph is— 

(A) for fiscal year 2018, $17,000,000,000; 

(B) for fiscal year 2019, $15,000,000,000; and 

(C) for fiscal year 2020, $13,000,000,000. 

(c) DETERMINATION.—For purposes of this section, budgetary levels shall be determined on the basis of estimates provided by the 

chair of the Committee on the Budget. 

SEC. 304. GAO REPORT. 

(a) GAO SUBMISSION.—At a date specified by the chair of the 

Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives, the 

Comptroller General, in consultation with the chair, the Director of 

the Congressional Budget Office, and the Director of the Office of 

Management and Budget, shall submit to the chair a comprehensive list of all current direct spending programs of the Government. 

(b) PUBLICATION.—The chair of the Committee on the Budget 

shall cause to be printed in the Congressional Record the list submitted under subsection (a). The chair shall publish such list on 

the Committee’s public Web site. Such publication shall be searchable, sortable, and downloadable. 

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SEC. 305. ESTIMATES OF DEBT SERVICE COSTS. 

In the House of Representatives, the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget may direct the Congressional Budget Office to include 

in any estimate prepared under section 402 of the Congressional 

Budget Act of 1974 with respect to any bill or joint resolution, or 

an estimate of an amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

an estimate of any change in debt service costs (if any) resulting 

from carrying out such bill or resolution. Any estimate of debt servicing costs provided under this section shall be advisory and shall 

not be used for purposes of enforcement of such Act, the Rules of 

the House of Representatives, or this concurrent resolution. This 

section shall not apply to authorizations of discretionary programs 

or to appropriation measures, but shall apply to changes in the authorization level of appropriated entitlements. 

SEC. 306. FAIR-VALUE CREDIT ESTIMATES. 

(a) ALL CREDIT PROGRAMS.—Whenever the Director of the Congressional Budget Office provides an estimate of any measure that 

establishes or modifies any program providing loans or loan guarantees, the Director shall, to the extent practicable, provide a supplemental fair-value estimate of any loan or loan guarantee program if requested by the chair of the Committee on the Budget. 

(b) STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND HOUSING PROGRAMS.— 

The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall provide a 

supplemental fair-value estimate as part of any estimate for any 

measure establishing or modifying a program providing loans or 

loan guarantees for student financial assistance or housing (including residential mortgage). 

(c) BASELINE ESTIMATES.—The Congressional Budget Office shall 

include estimates, on a fair-value and credit reform basis, of loan 

and loan guarantee programs for student financial assistance, 

housing (including residential mortgage), and such other major 

loan and loan guarantee programs, as practicable, in its Budget 

and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2027. 

SEC. 307. ESTIMATES OF MAJOR DIRECT SPENDING LEGISLATION. 

The Congressional Budget Office shall prepare, to the extent 

practicable, an estimate of the outlay changes during the second 

and third decade of enactment for any direct spending legislative 

provision— 

(1) that proposes a change or changes to law that the Congressional Budget Office determines has an outlay impact in 

excess of 0.25 percent of the gross domestic product of the 

United States during the first decade or in the tenth year; or 

(2) for which the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the 

House of Representatives requests such an estimate. 

SEC. 308. ESTIMATES OF MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MAJOR LEGISLATION. 

(a) CBO AND JCT ESTIMATES.—During the 114th and 115th Congresses, any estimate provided by the Congressional Budget Office 

under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 or by 

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ployment, capital stock, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such major legislation. 

(b) CONTENTS.—Any estimate referred to in subsection (a) shall, 

to the extent practicable, include— 

(1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects (including macroeconomic variables described in subsection (a)) of 

major legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning after 

the last fiscal year of the most recently agreed to concurrent 

resolution on the budget that sets forth budgetary levels required under section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

1974; and 

(2) an identification of the critical assumptions and the 

source of data underlying that estimate. 

(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

(1) MAJOR LEGISLATION.—The term ‘‘major legislation’’ means 

a bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference 

report thereon— 

(A) for which an estimate is required to be prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

1974 and that causes a gross budgetary effect (before incorporating macroeconomic effects and not including timing shifts) in a fiscal year in the period of years of the 

most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget equal to or greater than 0.25 percent of the current projected gross domestic product of the United States for that 

fiscal year; or 

(B) designated as such by— 

(i) the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the 

House of Representatives for all direct spending and 

revenue legislation; or 

(ii) the Member who is Chairman or Vice Chairman 

of the Joint Committee on Taxation for revenue legislation. 

(2) BUDGETARY EFFECTS.—The term ‘‘budgetary effects’’ 

means changes in revenues, direct spending outlays, and deficits. 

(3) TIMING SHIFTS.—The term ‘‘timing shifts’’ means— 

(A) provisions that cause a delay of the date on which 

outlays flowing from direct spending would otherwise 

occur from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year; or 

(B) provisions that cause an acceleration of the date on 

which revenues would otherwise occur from one fiscal year 

to the prior fiscal year. 

SEC. 309. ADJUSTMENTS FOR IMPROVED CONTROL OF BUDGETARY 

RESOURCES. 

(a) ADJUSTMENTS OF DISCRETIONARY AND DIRECT SPENDING LEVELS.—In the House of Representatives, if a committee (other than 

the Committee on Appropriations) reports a bill or joint resolution, 

or any amendment thereto is offered or any conference report 

thereon is submitted, providing for a decrease in direct spending 

(budget authority and outlays flowing therefrom) for any fiscal year 

and also provides for an authorization of appropriations for the 

same purpose, upon the enactment of such measure, the chair of 

the Committee on the Budget may decrease the allocation to such 

committee and increase the allocation of discretionary spending 

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(budget authority and outlays flowing therefrom) to the Committee 

on Appropriations for fiscal year 2018 by an amount equal to the 

new budget authority (and outlays flowing therefrom) provided for 

in a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for the same purpose. 

(b) DETERMINATIONS.—In the House of Representatives, for purposes of enforcing this concurrent resolution, the allocations and 

aggregate levels of new budget authority, outlays, direct spending, 

revenues, deficits, and surpluses for fiscal year 2018 and the period 

of fiscal years 2018 through 2027 shall be determined on the basis 

of estimates made by the chair of the Committee on the Budget 

and such chair may adjust the applicable levels in this concurrent 

resolution. 

SEC. 310. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Representatives, except as provided for in subsection (b), any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, making a general appropriation or continuing appropriation may not provide advance appropriations. 

(b) EXCEPTIONS.—An advance appropriation may be provided for 

programs, projects, activities, or accounts identified in the report or 

the joint explanatory statement of managers, as applicable, accompanying this concurrent resolution under the heading— 

(1) GENERAL.—‘‘Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations’’. 

(2) VETERANS.—‘‘Veterans Accounts Identified for Advance 

Appropriations’’. 

(c) LIMITATIONS.—The aggregate level of advance appropriations 

shall not exceed— 

(1) GENERAL.—$28,852,000,000 in new budget authority for 

all programs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(1). 

(2) VETERANS.—$70,699,313,000 in new budget authority for 

programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(2). 

(d) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘advance appropriation’’ means any 

new discretionary budget authority provided in a bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

making general appropriations or continuing appropriations, for 

the fiscal year following fiscal year 2018. 

SEC. 311. SCORING RULE FOR ENERGY SAVINGS PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall estimate provisions of any bill or joint resolution, or 

amendment thereto or conference report thereon that affects the 

use of any covered energy savings contract on a net present value 

basis. 

(b) NPV CALCULATIONS.—The net present value of any covered 

energy savings contract shall be calculated as follows: 

(1) The discount rate shall reflect market risk. 

(2) The cash flows shall include, whether classified as mandatory or discretionary, payments to contractors under the 

terms of their contracts, payments to contractors for other 

services, and direct savings in energy and energy-related costs. 

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(3) The stream of payments shall cover the period covered by 

the contracts but not to exceed 25 years. 

(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term ‘‘covered energy savings contract’’ means— 

(1) an energy savings performance contract authorized under 

section 801 of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act; or 

(2) a utility energy service contract, as described in the Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on Federal use 

of energy savings performance contracting, dated July 25, 1998 

(M–98–13), and the Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on the Federal use of energy saving performance contracts and utility energy service contracts, dated September 28, 

2012 (M–12–21), or any successor to either memorandum. 

(d) ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—In the 

House of Representatives, if any present value calculated under 

subsection (b) results in a net savings, then such savings may not 

be used as an offset for purposes of budget enforcement. 

(e) CLASSIFICATION OF SPENDING.—For purposes of budget enforcement, the estimated net present value of the budget authority 

provided by the measure, and outlays flowing therefrom, shall be 

classified as direct spending. 

(f) SENSE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—It is the sense 

of the House of Representatives that— 

(1) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in 

consultation with the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, should separately identify the cash flows under subsection 

(b)(2) and include such information in the President’s annual 

budget submission under section 1105(a) of title 31, United 

States Code; and 

(2) the scoring method used in this section should not be 

used to score any contracts other than covered energy savings 

contracts. 

SEC. 312. ESTIMATES OF LAND CONVEYANCES. 

In the House of Representatives, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall include in any estimate prepared under 

section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect 

to any measure that conveys Federal land to any non-Federal entity— 

(1) the methodology used to calculate such estimate; 

(2) a detailed justification of its estimate of any change in 

revenue, offsetting receipts, or offsetting collections resulting 

from such conveyance; 

(3) if requested by the chair of the Committee on the Budget, 

any information provided by the Bureau of Land Management 

or other applicable Federal agency, including the source and 

date of such information, that supports the estimate of any 

change in revenue, offsetting receipts, or offsetting collections; 

(4) a description of any efforts to independently verify such 

agency estimate; and 

(5) a statement of the assumptions underlying the estimate 

of the budgetary effects that would be generated by such parcel 

in CBO’s baseline projections as of the most recent publication 

or update. 

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SEC. 313. LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF 

THE TREASURY TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND. 

In the House of Representatives, for purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Balanced Budget and Emergency 

Deficit Control Act of 1985, and the rules or orders of the House 

of Representatives, a bill or joint resolution, or an amendment 

thereto or conference report thereon, that transfers funds from the 

general fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund shall be 

counted as new budget authority and outlays equal to the amount 

of the transfer in the fiscal year the transfer occurs. 

SEC. 314. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF GUARANTEE FEES AS AN OFFSET. 

In the House of Representatives, any provision of a bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that increases, or extends the increase of, any guarantee fees of the 

Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan 

Mortgage Corporation shall not be counted for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this concurrent resolution, or clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

SEC. 315. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL RESERVE SURPLUSES AS 

AN OFFSET. 

In the House of Representatives, any provision of a bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that transfers any portion of the net surplus of the Federal Reserve 

System to the general fund of the Treasury shall not be counted 

for purposes of enforcing the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 

this concurrent resolution, or clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of 

the House of Representatives. 

Subtitle B—Other Provisions 

SEC. 321. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Representatives, notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 

section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 

2009a of title 39, United States Code, the report or the joint explanatory statement, as applicable, accompanying this concurrent 

resolution shall include in its allocation under section 302(a) of the 

Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the Committee on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the 

Social Security Administration and the United States Postal Service. 

(b) SPECIAL RULE.—In the House of Representatives, for purposes 

of enforcing section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 

estimates of the level of total new budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure shall include any discretionary 

amounts described in subsection (a). 

SEC. 322. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS 

AND AGGREGATES. 

(a) APPLICATION.—In the House of Representatives, any adjustments of allocations and aggregates made pursuant to this concurrent resolution shall— 

(1) apply while that measure is under consideration; 

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(2) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and 

(3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as practicable. 

(b) EFFECT OF CHANGED ALLOCATIONS AND AGGREGATES.—Revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments 

shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget 

Act of 1974 as the allocations and aggregates contained in this concurrent resolution. 

(c) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.—For purposes of this 

concurrent resolution, the budgetary levels for a fiscal year or period of fiscal years shall be determined on the basis of estimates 

made by the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the House 

of Representatives. 

(d) AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND APPLICATION.—In the House 

of Representatives, for purposes of this concurrent resolution and 

budget enforcement, the consideration of any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, for which 

the chair of the Committee on the Budget makes adjustments or 

revisions in the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels 

of this concurrent resolution shall not be subject to the points of 

order set forth in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House 

of Representatives or section 301 of this concurrent resolution. 

SEC. 323. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES IN CONCEPTS AND 

DEFINITIONS. 

In the House of Representatives, the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget may adjust the appropriate aggregates, allocations, and 

other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any change 

in budgetary concepts and definitions in accordance with section 

251(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 

Act of 1985. 

SEC. 324. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT UPDATED BUDGETARY ESTIMATES. 

In the House of Representatives, the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget may revise the appropriate aggregates, allocations, and 

other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution to reflect any 

adjustments to the baseline made by the Congressional Budget Office. 

SEC. 325. ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN EMERGENCY DESIGNATIONS. 

In the House of Representatives, the chair of the Committee on 

the Budget may adjust the appropriate aggregates, allocations, and 

other budgetary levels for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that designates an 

emergency under section 4(g)(2) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go 

Act of 2010. 

SEC. 326. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 

The House of Representatives adopts the provisions of this title, 

title II, and title VII— 

(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 

Representatives, and as such they shall be considered as part 

of the rules of the House of Representatives, and such rules 

shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with such other rules; and 

(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 

House of Representatives to change those rules at any time, in 

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the same manner, and to the same extent as is the case of any 

other rule of the House of Representatives. 

TITLE IV—RESERVE FUNDS 

SEC. 401. RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OF THE 2010 HEALTH 

CARE LAWS. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that only consists of a full repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care-related provisions of the Health 

Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 

SEC. 402. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR ADDITIONAL MEASURES RELATING TO THE REPLACEMENT OF OBAMACARE. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that repeals or replaces provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation 

Act of 2010, if such measure would not increase the deficit for the 

period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

SEC. 403. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATED TO THE MEDICARE PROVISIONS OF THE 2010 HEALTH CARE LAWS. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that repeals all or part of the decreases in Medicare spending included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the 

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, if such 

measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 

2018 through 2027. 

SEC. 404. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REFORMING THE 

TAX CODE. 

In the House, if the Committee on Ways and Means reports a bill 

or joint resolution that reforms the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 

the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this concurrent 

resolution for the budgetary effects of any such bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, if such 

measure would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 

2018 through 2027 when the macroeconomic effects of such reforms 

are taken into account. 

SEC. 405. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, or 

amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that such chair 

determines are necessary to implement a trade agreement, and the 

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budgetary levels for any companion measure that offsets such trade 

measure, if the combined cost of each measure would not increase 

the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

SEC. 406. RESERVE FUND FOR REVENUE MEASURES. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution reported by the Committee on Ways and Means, or 

amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that decreases 

revenue. 

SEC. 407. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INFRASTRUCTURE 

REFORM. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or 

conference report thereon, if such measure reforms the Federal infrastructure funding system, but only if such measure would not 

increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2018 through 

2027. 

SEC. 408. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO REDUCE POVERTY 

AND INCREASE OPPORTUNITY AND UPWARD MOBILITY. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or 

conference report thereon, if such measure reforms policies and 

programs to reduce poverty and increase opportunity and upward 

mobility, but only if such measure would neither adversely impact 

job creation nor increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 

2018 through 2027. 

SEC. 409. IMPLEMENTATION OF A DEFICIT AND LONG-TERM DEBT REDUCTION AGREEMENT. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution to accommodate the enactment of a deficit 

and long-term debt reduction agreement if it includes permanent 

spending reductions and reforms to direct spending program, and 

does not increase outlays in any fiscal year. 

SEC. 410. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE ACCOUNT FOR REFORMING 

SNAP. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that reforms the supplemental nutrition assistance program 

(SNAP), but only if such measure would not increase the deficit for 

the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

SEC. 411. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR SOCIAL SECURITY 

DISABILITY INSURANCE REFORM. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this 

concurrent resolution for the budgetary effects of any bill or joint 

resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, 

that reforms the Social Security Disability Insurance program 

under title II of the Social Security Act, but only if such measure 

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would not increase the deficit for the period of fiscal years 2018 

through 2027. 

SEC. 412. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FEDERAL RETIREMENT REFORM. 

In the House, the chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this 

concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment 

thereto or conference report thereon, if such measure reforms, improves and updates the Federal retirement system, as determined 

by such chair, but only if such measure would not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

SEC. 413. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR DEFENSE SEQUESTER REPLACEMENT. 

The chair of the Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution for any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or 

conference report thereon, if such measure supports the following 

activities: Department of Defense training and maintenance associated with combat readiness, modernization of equipment, 

auditability of financial statements, or military compensation and 

benefit reforms, by the amount provided for these purposes, but 

only if such measure would not increase the deficit (without counting any net revenue increases in that measure) over the period of 

fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

SEC. 414. RESERVE FUND FOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF AIR TRAFFIC 

CONTROL. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Representatives, the chair of 

the Committee on the Budget may adjust, at a time the chair 

deems appropriate, the section 302(a) allocation to the Committee 

on Transportation and Infrastructure and other applicable committees of the House of Representatives, aggregates, and other appropriate levels established in this concurrent resolution for a bill or 

joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that commercializes the operations of the air traffic control system if such measure reduces the discretionary spending limits in 

section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 by the amount that would otherwise be appropriated to the Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control. Adjustments to the section 302(a) allocation to the Committee 

on Appropriations, consistent with the adjustments to the discretionary spending limits under such section 251(c), shall only be 

made upon enactment of such measure. 

(b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, a measure that 

commercializes the operations of the air traffic control system shall 

be a measure that establishes a federally chartered, not-for-profit 

corporation that— 

(1) is authorized to provide air traffic control services within 

the United States airspace; 

(2) sets user fees to finance its operations; 

(3) may borrow from private capital markets to finance improvements; 

(4) is governed by a board of directors composed of a CEO 

and directors whose fiduciary duty is to the entity; and 

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(5) becomes the employer of those employees directly connected to providing air traffic control services and who the Secretary transfers from the Federal Government. 

TITLE V—POLICY STATEMENTS 

SEC. 501. POLICY STATEMENT ON OBAMACARE REPEAL. 

It is the policy of this resolution that the Patient Protection and 

Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148), and the Health Care 

and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–152) 

should be repealed. 

SEC. 502. POLICY STATEMENT ON REPLACING OBAMACARE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Obamacare put Washington’s priorities before those of patients’. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has failed to reduce 

health care premiums as promised. Instead, the law mandated 

benefits and coverage levels, denying patients the opportunity 

to choose the type of coverage that best suits their health 

needs and driving up health coverage costs. A typical family’s 

health care premiums were supposed to decline by $2,500; instead, average premiums have increased 105 percent. A study 

conducted by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office 

(CBO) estimated premiums to continue rising over the next 

decade, projecting an average increase of 8 percent per year between 2016 and 2018, and increasing by nearly 60 percent by 

2026. 

(2) President Obama pledged, ‘‘If you like your health care 

plan, you can keep your health care plan.’’ Instead, CBO now 

estimated 7 million Americans will lose employment-based 

health coverage due to the health care law, further limiting patient choice. 

(3) Then-Speaker of the House Pelosi stated that the President’s health care law would create 4 million jobs over the life 

of the law and almost 400,000 jobs immediately. Instead, CBO 

estimated that by 2025 Obamacare will reduce the number of 

hours worked by approximately 2 million full-time equivalent 

workers, compared with what would have occurred in the absence of the law. Additionally, a study by the Mercatus Center 

at George Mason University estimated that Obamacare will reduce employment by up to 3 percent, or about 4 million fulltime equivalent workers. 

(4) Since the ACA was signed into law, the Obama administration repeatedly failed to implement it as written. President 

Obama’s unilateral actions resulted in numerous changes, 

delays, and exemptions. President Obama signed into law another 24 changes made by Congress. The Supreme Court 

struck down the forced expansion of Medicaid; ruled the individual ‘‘mandate’’ could only be characterized as a tax to remain constitutional; and rejected the requirement that closely 

held companies provide health insurance to their employees 

even if it violates the companies’ religious beliefs. More than 

7 years after enactment, the courts continue to evaluate the legality of how President Obama’s administration implemented 

the law. All of these changes prove the folly of the underlying 

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law; health care in the United States cannot be run from a 

centralized bureaucracy. 

(5) Obamacare is unaffordable, intrusive, overreaching, destructive, and unworkable. Its complex structure of subsidies, 

mandates, and penalties perversely impact individuals, married couples, and families. Those who previously had insurance 

along with those who did not have been funneled into a new 

system that is providing less access to doctors and treatments. 

Millions of Americans have been added to a broken Medicaid 

system that is incapable of providing the care promised. Cuts 

made to Medicare to fund a new entitlement are undermining 

the health security of seniors. Taxes and mandates are distorting the insurance market and harming the broader economy, resulting in fewer jobs and less opportunity. By design, 

Obamacare put Washington at the center of our health care 

system, at the expense of patients, families, physicians, and 

businesses. The ACA should be fully repealed, allowing for real 

patient-centered health care reform that puts patients first, 

not Washington. 

(b) POLICY ON REPLACING OBAMACARE.—It is the policy of this 

resolution that Obamacare must not only be repealed, but also replaced by enacting the American Health Care Reform Act. 

SEC. 503. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) More than 50 million Americans depend on Medicare for 

their health security. 

(2) The Medicare Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended that Medicare’s long-term financial challenges be 

addressed soon. Each year without reform, the financial condition of Medicare becomes more precarious and the threat to 

those in or near retirement becomes more pronounced. According to the Medicare Trustees Report— 

(A) the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted 

in 2028 and unable to pay scheduled benefits; 

(B) Medicare enrollment is expected to increase by over 

50 percent in the next two decades, as 10,000 baby 

boomers reach retirement age each day; 

(C) current workers’ payroll contributions pay for current beneficiaries; and 

(D) most Medicare beneficiaries receive about three dollars in Medicare benefits for every one dollar paid into the 

program. 

(3) Failing to address this problem will leave millions of 

American seniors without adequate health security and younger generations burdened with enormous debt to pay for spending levels that cannot be sustained. 

(b) POLICY ON MEDICARE REFORM.—It is the policy of this resolution to protect those in or near retirement from any disruptions to 

their Medicare benefits due to the program’s impending bankruptcy, and instead offer beneficiaries more options, better care, 

with reduced costs for both benficiaries and the Federal Government, by modernizing Medicare. 

(c) ASSUMPTIONS.—This resolution assumes reform of the Medicare program such that: 

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(1) Medicare is preserved for current and future beneficiaries. 

(2) Medicare is reformed to provide a premium support payment and a selection of guaranteed health coverage options 

from which recipients can choose a plan that best suits their 

needs. 

(3) Medicare will maintain traditional fee-for-service as an 

option. 

(4) Medicare will provide additional assistance for lower-income beneficiaries and those with greater health risks. 

(5) Medicare spending is put on a sustainable path and the 

Medicare program becomes solvent over the long-term. 

(6) The Medicare eligibility age is gradually increased to 

keep pace with increases in longevity. 

(7) Medicare is simplified by combining parts A and B and 

reforms to Medigap plans are implemented. 

SEC. 504. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAID STATE FLEXIBILITY 

BLOCK GRANTS. 

It is the policy of this resolution that Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) should be block granted 

to the States in a manner prescribed by the State Health Flexibility Act. 

SEC. 505. POLICY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) More than 55 million retirees, individuals with disabilities, and survivors depend on Social Security. Since enactment, Social Security has served as a vital leg on the ‘‘threelegged stool’’ of retirement security, which includes employer 

provided benefits as well as personal savings. 

(2) The Social Security Trustees Report has repeatedly recommended that Social Security’s long-term financial challenges 

be addressed soon. Each year without reform, the financial 

condition of Social Security becomes more precarious and the 

threat to seniors and those receiving Social Security disability 

benefits becomes more pronounced: 

(A) In 2022, the Disability Insurance Trust Fund will be 

exhausted and program revenues will be unable to pay 

scheduled benefits. 

(B) In 2034, the combined Old-Age and Survivors and 

Disability Trust Funds will be exhausted, and program 

revenues will be unable to pay scheduled benefits. 

(C) With the exhaustion of the Trust Funds in 2034, 

benefits will be cut nearly 25 percent across the board, 

devastating those currently in or near retirement and 

those who rely on Social Security the most. 

(3) The Disability Insurance program provides an income 

safety net for those with disabilities and their families. However, the program is in serious financial trouble. The number 

of beneficiaries has skyrocketed from 2.7 million in 1970 to 

10.6 million in 2016. At the same time, the labor force participation rate has now fallen to the lowest levels since the 1970s. 

As a result, the Social Security Actuary now projects that the 

Disability Insurance Trust Fund will be depleted in 2023. 

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(4) If this program is not reformed, families who rely on the 

lifeline that disability benefits provide will face benefit cuts of 

up to 11 percent in 2023, devastating individuals who need assistance the most. 

(5) Americans deserve action by the President, the House, 

and the Senate to preserve and strengthen Social Security. It 

is critical that action be taken to address the looming insolvency of Social Security. 

(b) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY.—It is the policy of this resolution that Congress should work to make Social Security sustainably 

solvent. This resolution assumes these reforms will include the following policies, based upon the Social Security Reform Act: 

(1) Adoption of a more accurate measure for calculating cost 

of living adjustments. 

(2) Adoption of adjustments to the full retirement age to reflect longevity. 

(3) Makes Social Security benefits more progressive over the 

long term, providing those most in need with a safety net in 

retirement. 

(c) POLICY ON DISABILITY INSURANCE.—It is the policy of this resolution that Congress and the President should enact legislation on 

a bipartisan basis to reform the Disability Insurance program prior 

to its insolvency in 2016 and should not raid the Social Security 

retirement system without reforms to the Disability Insurance system. This resolutions assumes that reforms to the Disability Insurance program will include— 

(1) encouraging work; 

(2) updates of the eligibility rules; 

(3) reducing fraud and abuse; 

(4) enactment of H.R. 2031, the Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Benefits Double Dip Elimination 

Act, to prohibit individuals from drawing benefits from both 

programs at the same time; and 

(5) enactment of H.R. 1540, the Social Security Disability Insurance Return to Work Act, to allow the award of time-limited 

benefits for applicants whose medical recovery is anticipated in 

order to create new opportunities for beneficiaries. 

SEC. 506. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEANS-TESTED WELFARE PROGRAMS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that: 

(1) Too many people are trapped at the bottom rungs of the 

economic ladder, and every citizen should have the opportunity 

to rise, escape from poverty, and achieve their own potential. 

(2) In 1996, President Bill Clinton and congressional Republicans enacted reforms that have moved families off of Federal 

programs and enabled them to provide for themselves. 

(3) Today, there are approximately 92 Federal programs on 

which Government at the Federal and State level spend more 

than $1 trillion annually that provide benefits specifically to 

poor and low-income Americans. 

(4) It should be the goal of welfare programs to encourage 

work and put people on a path to self-reliance. 

(b) POLICY ON MEANS-TESTED WELFARE PROGRAMS.—It is the policy of this resolution that— 

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(1) the welfare system should be reformed to give states 

flexibility to implement and improve safety net programs and 

that to be eligible for benefits, able bodied adults without dependents should be required to work or be preparing for work, 

including enrolling in educational or job training programs, 

contributing community service, or participating in a supervised job search; and 

(2) the President’s budget should disclose, in a clear and 

transparent manner, the aggregate amount of Federal welfare 

expenditures, as well as an estimate of State and local spending for this purpose, over the next ten years. 

SEC. 507. POLICY STATEMENT ON REFORM OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL 

NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 

(a) SNAP.—It is the policy of the resolution that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program be reformed so that: 

(1) Nutrition assistance funds should be distributed to the 

states as a block grant with funding subject to the annual discretionary appropriations process. 

(2) Funds from the grant must be used by the states to establish and maintain a work activation program for able-bodied adults without dependents. 

(3) It is the goal of this proposal to move those in need off 

of the assistance rolls and back into the workforce and towards 

self-sufficiency. 

(b) ASSUMPTIONS.—This resolution assumes that, pending the enactment of reforms described in (a), the conversion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program into a flexible State allotment tailored to meet each State’s needs. 

SEC. 508. POLICY STATEMENT ON WORK REQUIREMENTS. 

It is the policy of this resolution that all means-tested welfare 

programs should include work activation requirements for ablebodied adults. 

SEC. 509. POLICY STATEMENT ON A CARBON TAX. 

It is the policy of this resolution that a carbon tax would be detrimental to American families and businesses, and is not in the best 

interest of the United States. 

SEC. 510. POLICY STATEMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Across the Nation, too many Americans are struggling to 

make ends meet. The slowly falling unemployment rate has 

masked an underlying crisis as millions of Americans have 

abandoned the work force and wages have stagnated. The 

labor force participation rate has plummeted to levels not seen 

since the Carter presidency. 

(2) Looking ahead, CBO expects the economy to grow by an 

average of just 1.9 percent over the next 10 years. That level 

of economic growth is simply unacceptable and insufficient to 

expand opportunities and the incomes of millions of middle-income Americans. 

(3) Sluggish economic growth has also contributed to the 

country’s fiscal woes. Subpar growth means that revenue levels 

are lower than they would otherwise be while government 

spending (e.g. welfare and income-support programs) is higher. 

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(4) The unsustainable fiscal trajectory has cast a shadow on 

the country’s economic outlook. investors and businesses make 

decisions on a forward-looking basis. they know that today’s 

large debt levels are simply tomorrow’s tax hikes, interest rate 

increases, or inflation and they act accordingly. This debt overhang, and the uncertainty it generates, can weigh on growth, 

investment, and job creation. 

(5) Nearly all economists, including those at the CBO, conclude that reducing budget deficits (thereby bending the curve 

on debt levels) is a net positive for economic growth over time. 

(6) If the Government remains on the current fiscal path, future generations will face ever-higher debt service costs, a decline in national savings, and a ‘‘crowding out’’ of private investment. This dynamic will eventually lead to a decline in economic output and a diminution in our country’s standard of living. 

(7) The key economic challenge is determining how to expand 

the economic pie, not how best to divide up and re-distribute 

a shrinking pie. 

(8) A stronger economy is vital to lowering deficit levels and 

eventually balancing the budget. According to CBO, if annual 

real GDP growth is just 0.1 percentage point higher over the 

budget window, deficits would be reduced by $273 billion. 

(9) This budget resolution therefore embraces pro-growth 

policies, such as fundamental tax reform, that will help foster 

a stronger economy, greater opportunities and more job creation. 

(b) POLICY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION.—It is the 

policy of this resolution to promote faster economic growth and job 

creation. By putting the budget on a sustainable path, this resolution ends the debt-fueled uncertainty holding back job creators. Reforms to the tax code will put American businesses and workers in 

a better position to compete and thrive in the 21st century global 

economy. This resolution targets the regulatory red tape and cronyism that stack the deck in favor of special interests. All of the 

reforms in this resolution serve as means to the larger end of helping the economy grow and expanding opportunity for all Americans. 

SEC. 511. POLICY STATEMENT ON TAX REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) A reformed tax code should be simple, fair, and promote 

(rather than impede) economic growth. The United States tax 

code fails on all 3 counts: it is complex, unfair, and inefficient. 

The tax code’s complexity distorts decisions to work, save, and 

invest, which leads to slower economic growth, lower wages, 

and less job creation. 

(2) High marginal tax rates lessen the incentives to work, 

save, and invest, which reduces economic output and job creation. 

(3) The United States corporate income tax rate is the highest rate in the industrialized world. Tax rates this high suppress wages, discourage investment and job creation, distort 

business activity, and put American businesses at a competitive disadvantage with foreign competitors. 

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(4) The ‘‘world-wide’’ structure of United States international 

taxation essentially taxes earnings of United States firms 

twice, putting them at a significant competitive disadvantage 

with competitors that have more competitive international tax 

systems. 

(5) The tax code imposes costs on American workers through 

lower wages, consumers in higher prices, and investors in diminished returns. 

(6) Closing tax loopholes to finance higher spending does not 

constitute fundamental tax reform. 

(7) Tax reform should curb or eliminate loopholes and use 

those savings to lower tax rates across the board, not to fund 

more wasteful Government spending. Washington has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. 

(8) Many economists believe that fundamental tax reform, 

including a broader tax base and lower tax rates, would lead 

to greater labor supply and increased investment, which would 

have a positive impact on total national output. 

(b) POLICY ON TAX REFORM.—It is the policy of this resolution 

that Congress should enact legislation that provides for a comprehensive reform of the United States tax code to promote economic growth, create American jobs, increase wages, and benefit 

American consumers, investors, and workers through fundamental 

tax reform that is revenue-neutral on a dynamic basis that provides for the following: 

(1) Targets revenue neutrality based on a dynamic score that 

takes into account the macroeconomic effects of reform. 

(2) Collapses the current seven brackets for individuals into 

just three, with a top rate of no more than 33 percent. 

(3) Simplifies the tax code to ensure that fewer Americans 

will be required to itemize deductions. 

(4) Gives equal tax treatment to individual and employer 

healthcare expenditures modeled on the American Health Care 

Reform Act. 

(5) Encourages charitable giving. 

(6) Repeals the Death Tax. 

(7) Eliminates marriage penalties. 

(8) Provides tax-free universal savings accounts to reward 

saving. 

(9) Repeals the alternative minimum tax. 

(10) Reduces double taxation by lowering the top corporate 

rate to no more than 20 percent. 

(11) Reduces the rate for capital gains and dividends. 

(12) Encourages net investment, savings, and entrepreneurial activity, including full expensing. 

(13) Moves to a competitive territorial system of international taxation. 

(14) Ends distortionary special interest giveaways, such as 

the Wind Production Tax Credit. 

SEC. 512. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRADE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Opening foreign markets to American exports is vital to 

the United States economy and beneficial to American workers 

and consumers. 

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(2) The United States can increase economic opportunities 

for American workers and businesses through the elimination 

of foreign trade barriers to United States goods and services. 

(3) American businesses and workers have shown that, on a 

level playing field, they can excel and surpass international 

competition. 

(b) POLICY ON TRADE.—It is the policy of this concurrent resolution— 

(1) to pursue international trade, global commerce, and a 

modern and competitive tax system to promote domestic job 

creation; 

(2) that the United States should continue to seek increased 

economic opportunities for American workers and businesses 

through high-standard trade agreements that satisfy negotiating objectives, including— 

(A) the expansion of trade opportunities; 

(B) adherence to trade agreements and rules by the 

United States and its trading partners, and 

(C) the elimination of foreign trade barriers to United 

States goods and services by opening new markets and enforcing United States rights; and 

(3) that any trade agreement entered into on behalf of the 

United States should reflect the negotiating objectives and adhere to the provisions requiring improved consultation with 

Congress. 

SEC. 513. POLICY STATEMENT ON ENERGY PRODUCTION. 

It is the policy of this resolution that the Arctic National Wildlife 

Refuge (ANWR) and currently unavailable areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) should be open for energy exploration and production. 

SEC. 514. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REGULATORY BUDGETING 

AND REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Excessive Federal regulation— 

(A) has hurt job creation, investment, wages, competition, and economic growth, slowing the Nation’s recovery 

from the economic recession and harming American households; 

(B) operates as a regressive tax on poor and lower-income households; 

(C) displaces workers into long-term unemployment or 

lower-paying jobs; 

(D) adversely affects small businesses, the primary 

source of new jobs; and 

(E) impedes economic growth. 

(2) Federal agencies routinely fail to identify and eliminate, 

minimize, or mitigate excess regulatory costs through post-implementation assessments of their regulations. 

(3) The United States Code of Federal Regulations now contains over 185,000 pages of regulations in 242 volumes. 

(4) Notwithstanding the size and growth of Federal regulations, Congress lacks an effective mechanism to manage the 

level of new Federal regulatory costs imposed each year. Other 

nations, meanwhile, have successfully implemented the use of 

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regulatory budgeting to control excess regulation and regulatory costs. 

(5) Implementation of the Affordable Care Act has resulted 

in more than 177.9 million annual hours of regulatory compliance paperwork, $37.1 billion of regulatory compliance costs on 

the private sector, and $13 billion in regulatory compliance 

costs on the States. 

(6) Agencies impose costly regulations without relying on 

sound science through the use of judicial consent decrees and 

settlement agreements and the abuse of interim compliance 

costs imposed on regulated entities that bring legal challenges 

against newly promulgated regulations. 

(b) POLICY ON FEDERAL REGULATORY BUDGETING AND REFORM.— It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that the House should, 

in consultation with the public, consider legislation that— 

(1) promotes— 

(A) economic growth, job creation, higher wages, and increased investment by eliminating unnecessary red tape 

and streamlining, simplifying and lowering the costs of 

Federal regulations; and 

(B) the adoption of least-cost regulatory alternatives to 

meet the objectives of Federal regulatory statutes; 

(2) protects— 

(A) the poor and lower-income households from the regressive effects of excessive regulation; and 

(B) workers against the unnecessary elimination of jobs 

and loss or reduction of wages; 

(3) requires— 

(A) an annual, congressional regulatory budget that establishes annual costs of regulations and allocates these 

costs amongst Federal regulatory agencies; 

(B) cost-benefit and regulatory impact analysis for new 

regulations proposed and promulgated by all Federal regulatory agencies; 

(C) advance notice of proposed rulemaking and makes 

evidentiary hearings available for critical disputed issues 

in the development of new major regulations; and 

(D) congressional approval of all new major regulations 

before the regulations can become effective, ensuring that 

Congress can better prevent the imposition of unsound 

costly new regulations; 

(4) reduces— 

(A) regulatory barriers to entry into markets and other 

regulatory impediments to competition and innovation; 

and 

(B) the imposition of new Federal regulation that duplicates, overlaps or conflicts with State, local, and Tribal 

regulation or that impose unfunded mandates on State, 

local, and Tribal governments; and 

(5) eliminates the abuse of guidance to evade legal requirements applicable to the development and promulgation of new 

regulations. 

SEC. 515. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL FUNDING OF ABORTION. 

It is the policy of this resolution that no taxpayer dollars shall 

go to any entity that provides abortion services. 

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SEC. 516. POLICY STATEMENT ON TRANSPORTATION REFORM. 

It is the policy of this resolution that State and local officials are 

in a much better position to understand the needs of local commuters, not bureaucrats in Washington. Federal funding for transportation should be phased down and limited to core Federal duties, including the interstate highway system, transportation infrastructure on Federal land, responding to emergencies, and research. As the level of Federal responsibility for transportation is 

reduced, Congress should also concurrently reduce the Federal gas 

tax. 

SEC. 517. POLICY STATEMENT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) For years, there has been serious concern regarding the 

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) bureaucratic mismanagement and continuous failure to provide veterans timely access 

to health care. 

(2) In 2015, for the first time, VA health care was added to 

Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) ‘‘high-risk’’ list, due 

to mismanagement and oversight failures, which have resulted 

in untimely and inefficient health care. According to GAO, ‘‘the 

absence of care and delays in providing care have harmed veterans.’’. 

(3) The VA’s failure to provide timely and accessible health 

care to our veterans is unacceptable. While Congress has done 

its part for more than a decade by providing sufficient funding 

for the VA, the administration has mismanaged these resources, resulting in proven adverse effects on veterans and 

their families. 

(b) POLICY ON THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.—It is the 

policy of this concurrent resolution that— 

(1) the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs continue its 

oversight efforts to ensure the VA reassesses its core mission, 

including— 

(A) reducing the number of bureaucratic layers; 

(B) reducing the number of senior and middle managers; 

(C) improving performance measure metrics; 

(D) strengthening the administration and oversight of 

contractors; and 

(E) supporting opportunities for veterans to pursue other 

viable options for their health care needs; and 

(2) the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on the Budget should continue to closely monitor the 

VA’s progress to ensure VA resources are sufficient and efficiently provided to veterans. 

SEC. 518. POLICY STATEMENT ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTEFUL, AND UNAUTHORIZED SPENDING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required 

by law to identify examples of waste, duplication, and overlap 

in Federal programs, and has so identified dozens of such examples. 

(2) In its report to Congress on Government Efficiency and 

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eral programs could ‘‘lead to tens of billions of dollars of additional savings.’’ 

(3) In 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, the 

GAO issued reports showing excessive duplication and redundancy in Federal programs. (4) Federal agencies reported an estimated $137 billion in 

improper payments in fiscal year 2015. 

(5) Under clause 2 of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 

Representatives, each standing committee must hold at least 

one hearing during each 120-day period following its establishment on waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement in Government programs. 

(6) Clause 2(a)(1) of rule XXI of the House of Representatives 

prohibits an appropriation for an expenditure not previously 

authorized by law. Despite this longstanding prohibition, more 

than $310 billion has been appropriated for unauthorized programs in fiscal year 2016, spanning 256 separate laws. 

(7) The findings resulting from congressional oversight of 

Federal Government programs should result in programmatic 

changes in both authorizing statutes and program funding levels. 

(b) POLICY ON REDUCING UNNECESSARY, WASTEFUL, AND UNAU- THORIZED SPENDING.— (1) Each authorizing committee annually should include in 

its Views and Estimates letter required under section 301(d) of 

the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 recommendations to the 

Committee on the Budget of programs within the jurisdiction 

of such committee whose funding should be reduced or eliminated. 

(2) Committees of jurisdiction should review all unauthorized 

programs funded through annual appropriations to determine 

if the programs are operating efficiently and effectively. 

(3) Committees should reauthorize those programs that in 

the committees’ judgment should continue to receive funding. 

(4) For those programs not reauthorized by committees, the 

House of Representatives should enforce the limitations on 

funding such unauthorized programs in the House rules. 

SEC. 519. POLICY STATEMENT ON A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: (1) The Government will collect approximately $3.4 trillion in taxes, but spend nearly $4 trillion to maintain its operations, 

borrowing 14 cents of every Federal dollar spent. 

(2) As of March 16, 2017, the national debt of the Unites 

States was nearly $20 trillion. 

(3) A majority of States have petitioned the Government to 

hold a constitutional convention to adopt a balanced budget 

amendment to the Constitution. 

(4) Forty nine States have fiscal limitations in their State 

constitutions, including the requirement to annually balance 

the budget. 

(5) Five States, including Arizona, Georgia, Alaska, Mississippi, and North Dakota, have agreed to the Compact for a 

Balanced Budget, which is seeking to amend the Constitution 

to require a balanced budget through an Article V convention 

by April 12, 2021. 

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(b) POLICY ON A BALANCED BUDGET CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.—It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress 

should propose a balanced budget constitutional amendment for 

ratification by the States. 

SEC. 520. POLICY STATEMENT ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE 

CANCELLATION OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) According to the most recent estimate from the Office of 

Management and Budget, Federal agencies held $921 billion in 

unobligated balances at the end of fiscal year 2017. 

(2) These funds comprise both discretionary appropriations 

and authorizations of mandatory spending that remain available for expenditure. 

(3) In many cases, agencies are provided appropriations that 

remain indefinitely available for obligation. 

(4) The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires the Office 

of Management and Budget to make funds available to agencies for obligation and prohibits the administration from withholding or cancelling unobligated funds unless approved by an 

Act of Congress. 

(b) POLICY ON DEFICIT REDUCTION THROUGH THE CANCELLATION

OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES.—It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that— 

(1) greater congressional oversight is required to review and 

identify potential savings from canceling unobligated balances 

of funds that are no longer needed; 

(2) the appropriate committees in the House should identify 

and review accounts with unobligated balances and rescind 

such balances that would not impede or disrupt the fulfillment 

of important Federal commitments; 

(3) the House, with the assistance of the Government Accountability Office, the Inspectors General, and appropriate 

agencies, should continue to review unobligated balances and 

identify savings for deficit reduction; and 

(4) unobligated balances in dormant accounts should not be 

used to finance increases in spending. 

SEC. 521. POLICY STATEMENT ON REFORMING THE CONGRESSIONAL 

BUDGET PROCESS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Enactment of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was the first step toward restoring 

constitutionally endowed legislative responsibility over fundamental budget decision making. 

(2) However, the congressional budget process has neither 

constrained spending nor inhibited the expansion of Government. The growth of the Government, primarily through a 

multiplicity of mandatory programs and other forms of direct 

spending, has largely been financed through borrowing and 

high tax rates. 

(3) The enforcement of the current budget process, including 

congressional points of order and statutory spending limits, 

have been too often waived or circumvented. This contributes 

to a lack of accountability, which has led to broad agreement 

that reforming the system is a high necessity. 

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(b) POLICY ON REFORMING THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS.—It is the policy of this concurrent resolution that Congress 

should— 

(1) restructure the fundamental procedures of budget decision making; 

(2) reassert congressional power over spending and revenue, 

restore the balance of power between Congress and the President as the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 intended, and attain the maximum level of accountability for budget decisions 

through efficient and rigorous enforcement of budget rules; 

(3) improve incentives for lawmakers to budget as intended 

by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, especially by adopting an annual budget resolution; 

(4) encourage more effective control over spending, especially 

currently uncontrolled direct spending; 

(5) revise the methodology used in developing the baseline, 

which is intended to reflect an objective projection of the budgetary effects of current laws and policies for future fiscal years, 

by removing any tendency toward assuming higher spending 

levels; 

(6) promote efficient and timely budget actions to ensure 

lawmakers complete their budget actions before the start of the 

new fiscal year; 

(7) provide access to the best analysis of economic conditions 

available and increase awareness of how fiscal policy directly 

impacts economic growth and job creation; and 

(8) eliminate the complexity of the budget process and the biases that favor higher spending. 

(c) LEGISLATION.—The Committee on the Budget of the House 

should draft legislation during the 115th Congress that rewrites 

the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to 

fulfill the goals of making the congressional budget process more 

effective in ensuring taxpayers’ dollars are spent wisely and efficiently. Such legislation shall— 

(1) attain greater simplicity without sacrificing the rigor required to address— 

(A) the complex issues of the domestic and world economy; 

(B) national security responsibilities; and 

(C) the appropriate roles of rulemaking and statutory 

enforcement mechanisms; 

(2) establish a new structure that assures the congressional 

role in the budget process is applied consistently without reliance on reactive legislating; 

(3) improve the elements of the current budget process that 

have fulfilled the original purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and 

(4) rebuild the foundation of the budget process to provide a 

solid basis from which additional reforms may be developed. 

SEC. 522. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL ACCOUNTING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Current accounting methods fail to capture and present 

in a compelling manner the full scope of the Government and 

its fiscal situation. 

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(2) Most fiscal analyses produced by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) are conducted over a 10-year time horizon. The 

use of generational accounting or a longer time horizon would 

provide a more complete picture of the Government’s fiscal situation. 

(3) The Federal budget currently accounts for most programs 

on a cash accounting basis, which records revenue and expenses when cash is actually paid or received. However, it accounts for loan and loan guarantee programs on an accrual 

basis, which records revenue when earned and expenses when 

incurred. 

(4) The Government Accountability Office has advised that 

accrual accounting may provide a more accurate estimate of 

the Government’s liabilities than cash accounting for some programs, specifically insurance programs. 

(5) Accrual accounting under the Federal Credit Reform Act 

of 1990 (FCRA) understates the risk and thus the true cost of 

some Federal programs, including loans and loan guarantees. 

(6) Fair value accounting better reflects the risk associated 

with Federal loan and loan guarantee programs by using a 

market based discount rate. CBO, for example, uses fair value 

accounting to measure the cost of Fannie Mae and Freddie 

Mac. 

(7) In comparing fair value accounting to FCRA, CBO has 

concluded that ‘‘adopting a fair-value approach would provide 

a more comprehensive way to measure the costs of Federal 

credit programs and would permit more level comparisons between those costs and the costs of other forms of Federal assistance’’. 

(8) This concurrent resolution directs CBO to estimate the 

costs of credit programs on a fair value basis to fully capture 

the risk associated with Federal credit programs. 

(b) POLICY ON FEDERAL ACCOUNTING METHODOLOGIES.—It is the 

policy of this concurrent resolution that the House should, in consultation with CBO and other appropriate stakeholders, reform 

government-wide budget and accounting practices so Members and 

the public can better understand the fiscal situation of the United 

States and the options best suited to improving it. 

SEC. 523. POLICY STATEMENT ON AGENCY FEES AND SPENDING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 

(1) A number of Federal agencies and organizations have 

permanent authority to collect fees and other offsetting collections and to spend these collected funds. 

(2) The total amount of offsetting fees and offsetting collections is estimated by the Office of Management and Budget to 

be $513 billion in fiscal year 2017. 

(3) Agency budget justifications are, in some cases, not fully 

transparent about the amount of program activity funded 

through offsetting collections or fees. This lack of transparency 

prevents effective and accountable government. 

(b) POLICY ON AGENCY FEES AND SPENDING.—It is the policy of 

this resolution that Congress must reassert its constitutional prerogative to control spending and conduct oversight. To do so, Congress should enact legislation requiring programs that are funded 

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cated new budget authority annually. Such allocation may arise 

from— 

(1) legislation originating from the authorizing committee of 

jurisdiction for the agency or program; or 

(2) fee and account specific allocations included in annual appropriation Acts. 

4. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE YARMUTH

OF KENTUCKY OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 30 MINUTES

Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the following: 

SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL 

YEAR 2018. 

(a) DECLARATION.—Congress declares that this resolution is the 

concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018 and that 

this resolution sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 

years 2019 through 2027. 

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this concurrent resolution is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 

Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. 

Sec. 102. Major functional categories. 

TITLE II—RESERVE FUNDS 

Sec. 201. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for struggling families. 

Sec. 202. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for health care improvements. 

Sec. 203. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for job creation through infrastructure and 

other investments and incentives. 

Sec. 204. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for education. 

Sec. 205. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for America’s veterans and service members. 

Sec. 206. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for retirement security. 

Sec. 207. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for increasing energy independence and security. 

TITLE III—ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS 

Sec. 301. Point of order against advance appropriations. 

Sec. 302. Adjustments to discretionary spending limits. 

Sec. 303. Costs of emergency needs, overseas contingency operations, and disaster 

relief. 

Sec. 304. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses. 

Sec. 305. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. 

Sec. 306. Adjustments for changes in the baseline. 

Sec. 307. Reinstatement of Pay-As-You-Go. 

Sec. 308. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 

TITLE IV—POLICY STATEMENTS 

Sec. 401. Policy of the House on affordable health care coverage for working families. 

Sec. 402. Policy of the House on tax reform that provides support and relief to 

hardworking American families. 

Sec. 403. Policy of the House on defense and nondefense funding increases. 

Sec. 404. Policy of the House on immigration reform. 

Sec. 405. Policy of the House on Social Security. 

Sec. 406. Policy of the House on protecting the Medicare guarantee for seniors and 

persons with disabilities. 

Sec. 407. Policy of the House on financial stability and consumer protection. 

Sec. 408. Policy of the House on women’s economic empowerment. 

Sec. 409. Policy of the House on national security. 

Sec. 410. Policy of the House on Veterans Affairs. 

Sec. 411. Policy of the House on disaster response funding. 

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Sec. 412. Policy of the House on the Federal workforce. 

Sec. 413. Policy of the House on climate change science. 

Sec. 414. Policy of the House on increased efficiency and eliminating waste. 

Sec. 415. Policy of the House on the investigation of Russian interference in the 

2016 U.S. presidential election. 

TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 

SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. 

The following budgetary levels are appropriate for each of fiscal 

years 2018 through 2027: 

(1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this resolution: 

(A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as 

follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $2,844,981,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $2,964,383,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,113,506,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,241,213,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $3,423,444,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $3,597,540,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $3,764,139,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $3,953,862,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $4,207,243,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $4,452,763,000,000. 

(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $111,412,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $130,875,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $162,930,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $181,302,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $240,528,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $279,624,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $301,711,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $331,684,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $417,865,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $494,376,000,000. 

(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total new 

budget authority are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $3,367,297,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,461,508,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,629,655,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,799,113,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $4,033,996,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,174,442,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,306,821,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,541,077,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $4,777,428,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $4,981,428,000,000. 

(3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement of 

this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays 

are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $3,298,502,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $3,458,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $3,600,937,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $3,772,732,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2022: $4,013,050,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $4,138,267,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $4,256,084,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $4,494,045,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $4,734,200,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $4,939,221,000,000. 

(4) DEFICITS.—For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the amounts of the deficits are as follows: 

Fiscal year 2018: $453,521,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $493,617,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $487,431,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $531,519,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $589,606,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $540,727,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $491,945,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $540,183,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $526,957,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $486,458,000,000. 

(5) PUBLIC DEBT.—Pursuant to section 301(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632(a)(5)), the appropriate levels of the public debt are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $21,039,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $21,723,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $22,376,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $23,077,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $23,809,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $24,527,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $25,225,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $25,964,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $26,751,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $27,396,000,000,000. 

(6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appropriate levels of 

debt held by the public are as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $15,379,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: $15,974,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: $16,590,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: $17,280,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: $18,061,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: $18,832,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: $19,597,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: $20,455,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: $21,349,000,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: $22,257,000,000,000. 

SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. 

Congress determines and declares that the appropriate levels of 

new budget authority and outlays for fiscal years 2018 through 

2027 for each major functional category are: 

(1) National Defense (050): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $611,095,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $605,151,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $624,257,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $615,594,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

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(A) New budget authority, $637,442,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $624,735,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $650,661,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $635,887,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $663,854,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $652,771,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $678,004,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $661,070,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $692,193,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $669,803,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $706,422,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $688,324,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $722,450,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $703,659,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $737,634,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $718,554,000,000. 

(2) International Affairs (150): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $52,701,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,093,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $52,067,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,535,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $51,871,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,799,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $51,619,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,165,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,398,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,235,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,981,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,156,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $51,530,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,335,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $52,045,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,582,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $52,606,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,953,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $53,130,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,388,000,000. 

(3) General Science, Space, and Technology (250): 

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Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,607,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,808,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,260,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,550,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,918,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,211,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $34,622,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,863,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $35,350,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,622,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,074,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $35,346,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $36,802,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $36,040,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $37,586,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $36,792,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $38,377,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $37,565,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,173,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $38,341,000,000. 

(4) Energy (270): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $4,873,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $2,963,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,341,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,411,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,742,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,074,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,858,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,334,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $5,789,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $4,346,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $4,807,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,471,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $4,270,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,003,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $4,166,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $3,021,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,423,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,297,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $6,515,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $5,459,000,000. 

(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $44,095,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $44,593,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $45,009,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $45,350,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,746,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $46,675,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $47,696,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $47,383,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $48,734,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $48,169,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $49,784,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $49,162,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,694,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,065,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $51,759,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $51,041,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $52,789,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $52,010,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $53,904,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $53,122,000,000. 

(6) Agriculture (350): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $24,863,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,248,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,675,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,067,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,625,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,766,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,833,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,220,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,803,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,319,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,931,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $21,518,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,437,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,908,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,144,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,523,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,360,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,763,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,171,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,596,000,000. 

(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $16,417,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $2,791,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,159,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $9,503,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $17,785,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $9,689,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $16,235,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,375,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,376,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,551,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $18,843,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $8,358,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,316,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,728,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,264,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,445,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,953,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,297,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,880,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $7,056,000,000. 

(8) Transportation (400): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $94,127,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $94,127,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $96,208,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $95,317,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $90,834,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $96,984,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

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(A) New budget authority, $91,720,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $98,346,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $92,632,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $99,800,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $93,551,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $101,474,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $94,477,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $103,104,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $95,468,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $105,171,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $96,468,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $107,021,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $97,481,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $108,930,000,000. 

(9) Community and Regional Development (450): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,342,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,344,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $19,877,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $24,725,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $20,707,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $23,465,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,132,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $22,303,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $21,592,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,391,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,028,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,391,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,475,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,248,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $22,957,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,597,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,443,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $20,803,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $23,579,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $21,187,000,000. 

(10) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 

(500): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $106,514,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $105,100,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $109,914,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $115,689,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $112,802,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $111,590,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $116,131,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $114,730,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $118,614,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $117,458,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $120,755,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $119,721,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $122,813,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $121,720,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $124,791,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $123,693,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $126,672,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $125,661,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $128,521,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $127,646,000,000. 

(11) Health (550): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $571,431,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $579,006,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $602,781,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $603,771,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $646,929,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $636,581,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $669,489,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $668,431,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $703,074,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $701,107,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $736,459,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $734,349,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $772,672,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $770,440,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $810,846,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $807,924,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $849,794,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $846,440,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $890,523,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $887,123,000,000. 

(12) Medicare (570): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $598,530,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $597,691,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $655,963,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $655,485,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $694,178,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $693,880,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $746,379,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $746,140,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $840,893,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $840,679,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $865,420,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $865,230,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $888,496,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $888,306,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $986,770,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $986,568,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,070,124,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,069,920,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $1,152,041,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $1,151,843,000,000. 

(13) Income Security (600): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $522,623,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $504,646,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $538,200,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $525,694,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $554,091,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $542,383,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $569,091,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $558,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $587,643,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $583,197,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $596,563,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $587,818,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

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(A) New budget authority, $605,530,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $591,214,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $626,210,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $612,973,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $641,786,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $635,202,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $658,210,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $650,880,000,000. 

(14) Social Security (650): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $39,801,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $39,644,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $43,342,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $43,283,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $46,606,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $46,586,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $50,055,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $50,047,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $53,680,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $53,686,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $57,643,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $57,653,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $62,003,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $62,016,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $66,598,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $66,614,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $71,052,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $71,069,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $75,625,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $75,642,000,000. 

(15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $177,885,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $178,068,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $194,339,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $191,615,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $201,128,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $198,981,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $207,588,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $205,546,000,000. 

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Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $223,845,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $221,690,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $221,566,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $219,455,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $218,419,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $216,409,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $236,394,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $234,258,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $243,968,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $241,722,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $252,291,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $250,117,000,000. 

(16) Administration of Justice (750): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $72,891,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $64,801,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $64,627,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $65,986,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $66,098,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $68,832,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $67,376,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $71,409,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $68,297,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $71,222,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $69,718,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $70,772,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $71,136,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $70,946,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $72,589,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $72,215,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $80,126,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $80,500,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $82,335,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $81,878,000,000. 

(17) General Government (800): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $27,958,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $26,363,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $28,794,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $27,635,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $29,761,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $28,995,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $30,771,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $30,062,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $31,792,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,154,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,512,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $31,939,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $32,997,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $32,462,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $33,743,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,135,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $34,507,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $33,882,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $35,257,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $34,624,000,000. 

(18) Net Interest (900): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $376,659,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $376,659,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $408,859,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $408,859,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $451,939,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $451,939,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $500,021,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $500,021,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $547,271,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $547,271,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $592,994,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $592,994,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $633,047,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $633,047,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $670,462,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $670,462,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $707,440,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $707,440,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $737,582,000,000. 

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(B) Outlays, $737,707,000,000. 

(19) Allowances (920): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$22,591,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$12,395,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$17,085,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$12,371,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$15,770,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$12,336,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$13,661,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$10,553,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$11,494,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$8,900,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$6,624,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$4,666,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$2,414,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$833,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, -$872,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $907,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $14,641,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $13,517,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $15,832,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $16,367,000,000. 

(20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, -$82,115,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$82,115,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, -$85,079,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$85,079,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, -$84,777,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$84,777,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, -$86,503,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$86,503,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, -$88,147,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$88,147,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, -$88,567,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$88,567,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, -$92,072,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$92,072,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

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(A) New budget authority, -$100,265,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$100,265,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, -$98,551,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$98,551,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, -$101,256,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, -$101,256,000,000. 

(21) Overseas Contingency Operations (970): 

Fiscal year 2018: 

(A) New budget authority, $76,591,000,000. 

(B) Outlays, $41,916,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2019: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $19,381,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2020: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $7,885,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2021: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $3,379,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2022: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $1,429,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2023: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $623,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2024: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $195,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2025: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $64,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2026: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $30,000,000. 

Fiscal year 2027: 

(A) New budget authority, $0. 

(B) Outlays, $16,000,000. 

TITLE II—RESERVE FUNDS 

SEC. 201. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR STRUGGLING FAMILIES. 

The Chair of the House Committee on the Budget may revise the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

that improves the lives of struggling families by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2018 to fiscal 

year 2022 or fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2027. Improvements 

may include any of the following: 

(1) Ensuring that all Americans have access to good-paying 

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ployment programs and registered apprenticeship programs, 

and national service opportunities. 

(2) Tax reform that provides support and relief to hard-working American families, including enhancements to the Earned 

Income Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit, and the Child and 

Dependent Care Tax Credit. 

(3) Expanded investments to ensure all working families 

have access to high-quality childcare programs. 

(4) Creation of a permanent summer child nutrition Electronic Funds Transfer program to ensure children receive supplemental food benefits. 

(5) Additional investment in the Affordable Housing Trust 

Fund beyond the base levels provided by the Federal National 

Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan 

Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). 

(6) Reauthorization of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program that ensures the continuation of 

successful home visiting programs and additional Federal support to serve a greater share of at-risk families. 

(7) Changes to improve the Temporary Assistance for Needy 

Families (TANF) program, including legislation that increases 

funding for the base block grant, increases access to education 

and training, or requires States to spend more TANF funds on 

the program’s core purposes such as work, childcare, and assistance to struggling families. 

(8) Funding for research designed to improve program effectiveness in creating positive outcomes for low-income children 

and families. 

(9) Additional investments that end homelessness among 

America’s families. 

(10) Changes to improve support for at-risk families, reduce 

child abuse and neglect, or improve reunification, permanency, 

and post-permanency services in order to reduce the need for 

foster care. 

(11) Changes to encourage and efficiently collect increased 

parental support for children, including legislation that results 

in a greater share of collected child support reaching the child 

and policies to ensure that non-custodial parents are able to 

pay the child support they owe and maintain positive relationships with their children. 

SEC. 202. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENTS. 

The Chair of the House Committee on the Budget may revise the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

that— 

(1) improves the affordability and quality of health care and 

expands coverage; 

(2) improves access to and affordability of prescription drugs; 

(3) improves the stability of the marketplaces for nongroup 

health insurance; 

(4) advances biomedical research and development of more 

effective treatments and cures; 

(5) extends expiring provisions of Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program and other health programs; 

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(6) improves access to opioid addiction treatment and prevention programs; 

(7) improves availability of long-term care services and supports for senior citizens and individuals with disabilities, 

(8) improves the contemporary health care workforce’s ability 

to meet emerging demands; 

(9) improves Medicare quality, efficiency, and benefit design 

to make care more affordable and accessible for people with 

Medicare; or 

(10) improves Medicaid quality, efficiency, and benefit design 

to make care more affordable and accessible for people with 

Medicaid; 

by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 

not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2022 or fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 

2027. 

SEC. 203. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR JOB CREATION 

THROUGH INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER INVESTMENTS 

AND INCENTIVES. 

The Chair of the House Committee on the Budget may revise the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

that provides for robust Federal investments in America’s infrastructure, incentives for businesses, and support for communities 

or other measures that create jobs for Americans and boost the 

economy. Revisions may be made for measures that— 

(1) provide for additional investments in highways, transit 

systems, bridges, rail, aviation, harbors (including harbor 

maintenance dredging), seaports, inland waterway systems, 

public housing, broadband, energy, water, and other infrastructure; 

(2) provide for additional investments in other areas that 

would help businesses and other employers create new jobs; 

and 

(3) provide additional incentives, including tax incentives, to 

help small businesses, nonprofits, States, and communities expand investment, train, hire, and retain private-sector workers 

and public service employees; 

by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure does not 

increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal 

year 2018 to fiscal year 2022 or fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2027. 

SEC. 204. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR EDUCATION. 

The Chair of the House Committee on the Budget may revise the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

that supports students by the amounts provided in such measure 

if such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2022 or fiscal 

year 2018 to fiscal year 2027. Support may include any of the following: 

(1) Efforts to make higher education more affordable and increase college and degree completion by encouraging States 

and institutions of higher education to improve educational 

outcomes and access for low- and moderate-income students 

through support for campus-based aid programs; increased 

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funding for the Pell grant program; and assistance to empower 

borrowers in lowering and managing their student loan debt 

through refinancing and expanded repayment options. 

(2) Increases in funding for the Individuals with Disabilities 

Education Act (IDEA) to put the Federal Government on a 10- 

year path to fulfill its commitment to America’s children and 

schools by providing 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure for special education. 

(3) Increases in funding to ensure access to high-quality 

child care and early learning programs for every child including investments in the Federal Preschool Development Grant 

program, Head Start program, and the Child Care and Development Block Grant. 

(4) Increases in funding for formula programs authorized by 

Congress in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as 

amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act, including Title IA, Title II-A, Title III, The 21st Century Community Learning 

Center Program, and Title IV-A, to support public school teachers and prepare all public school students, including students 

who are low-income, students learning to speak English, minority students, and students with disabilities, for success in 

college and their careers. 

(5) Increases in funding for STEM, including computer 

science, and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs 

to close the nation’s skills gap by ensuring all students have 

access to high-quality educational programming that prepares 

them for high-paying careers in a global economy through the 

integration of academic content and technical skills. 

SEC. 205. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AMERICA’S VETERANS AND SERVICE MEMBERS. 

The Chair of the House Committee on the Budget may revise the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

that— 

(1) reforms or otherwise improves the ability of the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide greater and more timely 

access to quality health care and to enhance the delivery of 

benefits to the Nation’s veterans, or improves the delivery of 

health care to servicemembers; 

(2) improves the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder 

and other mental illnesses, and increases the capacity to address health care needs unique to women veterans; 

(3) makes improvements to the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 to ensure that veterans receive 

the educational benefits they need to maximize their employment opportunities; 

(4) improves disability benefits or evaluations for wounded or 

disabled military personnel or veterans, including measures to 

expedite the claims process; 

(5) expands eligibility to permit additional disabled military 

retirees to receive both disability compensation and retired pay 

(concurrent receipt); 

(6) eliminates the offset between Survivor Benefit Plan annuities and veterans’ dependency and indemnity compensation; 

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(7) improves information technology at the Department of 

Veterans Affairs, including for the purchase and implementation of the same electronic health record system used by the 

Department of Defense; 

by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 

not increase the deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2022 or fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 

2027. 

SEC. 206. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY. 

The Chair of the House Committee on the Budget may revise the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

that strengthens or protects retirement security by the amounts 

provided in such measure if such measure would not increase the 

deficit for either of the following time periods: fiscal year 2018 to 

fiscal year 2022 or fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 2022. The revisions may be made for measures that— 

(1) improve the security of existing pension plans, including 

public- and private-sector plans, single- and multi-employer 

plans, and the Central States Pension Fund; 

(2) address the impending insolvency of the coal miners’ pension plan (1974 United Mine Workers of America Pension plan) 

that, if left unfunded, will jeopardize the solvency of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation insurance fund; 

(3) improve access to and quality of existing pension plans, 

including both defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans; 

and 

(4) create new options or incentives for employers to offer 

pension or retirement savings plans, and/or for employees to 

participate in them. 

SEC. 207. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR INCREASING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY. 

The Chair of the House Committee on the Budget may revise the 

allocations, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

that— 

(1) provides tax incentives for or otherwise encourages the 

production of renewable energy or increased energy efficiency; 

(2) encourages investment in emerging clean energy or vehicle technologies or carbon capture and sequestration; 

(3) provides additional resources for oversight and expanded 

enforcement activities to crack down on speculation in and manipulation of oil and gas markets, including derivatives markets; 

(4) limits and provides for reductions in greenhouse gas 

emissions; 

(5) assists businesses, industries, States, communities, the 

environment, workers, or households as the United States 

moves toward reducing and offsetting the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions; or 

(6) facilitates the training of workers for these industries 

(‘‘clean energy jobs’’) 

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cal year 2018 to fiscal year 2022 or fiscal year 2018 to fiscal year 

2027. 

TITLE III—ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS 

SEC. 301. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, except as provided in subsection 

(b), any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report 

making a general appropriation or continuing appropriation may 

not provide for advance appropriations. 

(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Advance appropriations may be provided— 

(1) for fiscal year 2019 for programs, projects, activities, or 

accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement of managers to accompany this resolution under the heading ‘‘Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations’’ in an aggregate 

amount not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority, 

and for 2020, accounts separately identified under the same 

heading; and 

(2) for all discretionary programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘advance appropriation’’ means any new discretionary budget authority provided in a 

bill or joint resolution, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, making general appropriations or continuing appropriations that first becomes available for any fiscal year after 2018. 

SEC. 302. ADJUSTMENTS TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. 

(a) PROGRAM INTEGRITY INITIATIVES UNDER THE BUDGET CONTROL ACT.— 

(1) SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM INTEGRITY

INITIATIVES.—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, 

joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2018 that appropriates amounts as 

provided under section 251(b)(2)(B) of the Balanced Budget 

and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the allocation to 

the House Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by 

the amount of additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that budget authority for fiscal year 2018. 

(2) HEALTH CARE FRAUD AND ABUSE CONTROL PROGRAM.—In 

the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, 

amendment, or conference report making appropriations for 

fiscal year 2018 that appropriates amounts as provided under 

section 251(b)(2)(C) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 

Deficit Control Act of 1985, the allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by the amount of 

additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that 

budget authority for fiscal year 2018. 

(b) ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INTEGRITY INITIATIVES.— 

(1) INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE TAX COMPLIANCE.—In the 

House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, 

amendment, or conference report making appropriations for 

fiscal year 2018 that appropriates $4,860,000,000 for the Internal Revenue Service under the Enforcement appropriation title 

to carry out tax enforcement activities and provides an additional appropriation of up to $514,000,000 to the Internal Revenue Service that is designated for enhanced tax enforcement 

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to address the tax gap (taxes owed but not paid), the Chair of 

the Budget Committee shall increase the allocation to the 

House Committee on Appropriations by the amount of additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that budget 

authority for fiscal year 2018. 

(2) UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM INTEGRITY ACTIVI- TIES.—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations for fiscal year 2018 that appropriates $151,000,000 for inperson reemployment and eligibility assessments, reemployment services and training referrals, and unemployment insurance improper payment reviews for the Department of Labor 

and provides an additional appropriation of up to $35,000,000, 

and the amount is designated for in-person reemployment and 

eligibility assessments, reemployment services and training referrals, and unemployment insurance improper payment reviews for the Department of Labor, the allocation to the House 

Committee on Appropriations shall be increased by the amount 

of additional budget authority and outlays resulting from that 

budget authority for fiscal year 2018. 

(c) PROCEDURE FOR ADJUSTMENTS.—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference 

report, the Chair of the House Committee on the Budget shall 

make the adjustments set forth in this subsection for the incremental new budget authority in that measure and the outlays resulting from that budget authority if that measure meets the requirements set forth in this section. 

SEC. 303. COSTS OF EMERGENCY NEEDS, OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY 

OPERATIONS, AND DISASTER RELIEF. 

(a) EMERGENCY NEEDS.—If any bill, joint resolution, amendment, 

or conference report makes appropriations for discretionary 

amounts and such amounts are designated as necessary to meet 

emergency needs pursuant to this subsection, then new budget authority and outlays resulting from that budget authority shall not 

count for the purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, or 

this resolution. 

(b) OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS.—In the House, if any 

bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report makes appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for Overseas Contingency Operations and such amounts are so designated pursuant to this paragraph, then the Chair of the House Committee on the Budget may 

adjust the allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations by 

the amounts provided in such legislation for that purpose up to, 

but not to exceed, the total amount of budget authority specified in 

section 102(21). 

(c) DISASTER RELIEF.—In the House, if any bill, joint resolution, 

amendment, or conference report makes appropriations for discretionary amounts and such amounts are designated for disaster relief pursuant to this subsection, then the allocation to the Committee on Appropriations, and as necessary, the aggregates in this 

resolution, shall be adjusted by the amount of new budget authority and outlays up to the amounts provided under section 

251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 

Act of 1985, as adjusted by subsection (d). 

(d) WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS.— 

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(1) CAP ADJUSTMENT.—In the House, if any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making appropriations 

for wildfire suppression operations for fiscal year 2018 that appropriates a base amount equal to 70 percent of the average 

cost of wildfire suppression operations over the previous 10 

years and provides an additional appropriation of up to but not 

to exceed $1,154,000,000 for wildfire suppression operations 

and such amounts are so designated pursuant to this paragraph, then the allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations may be adjusted by the additional amount of budget 

authority above the base amount and the outlays resulting 

from that additional budget authority. 

(2) DEFICIT-NEUTRAL ADJUSTMENT.—The total allowable discretionary adjustment for disaster relief pursuant to section 

251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 

Control Act of 1985 shall be reduced by an amount equivalent 

to the sum of allocation increases made pursuant to paragraph 

(1) in the previous year. 

(e) PROCEDURE FOR ADJUSTMENTS.—In the House, prior to consideration of any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference 

report, the Chair of the House Committee on the Budget shall 

make the adjustments set forth in subsections (b), (c), and (d) for 

the incremental new budget authority in that measure and the outlays resulting from that budget authority if that measure meets the 

requirements set forth in this section. 

SEC. 304. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF CERTAIN DISCRETIONARY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, notwithstanding section 

302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, section 13301 of 

the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and section 4001 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget shall include in its allocation under section 

302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to the House Committee on Appropriations amounts for the discretionary administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and of the Postal Service. 

(b) SPECIAL RULE.—For purposes of applying section 302(f) of the 

Congressional Budget Act of 1974, estimates of the level of total 

new budget authority and total outlays provided by a measure 

shall include any off-budget discretionary amounts. 

SEC. 305. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS 

AND AGGREGATES. 

(a) APPLICATION.—In the House, any adjustments of allocations 

and aggregates made pursuant to this resolution shall— 

(1) apply while that measure is under consideration; 

(2) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and 

(3) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as practicable. 

(b) EFFECT OF CHANGED ALLOCATIONS AND AGGREGATES.—Revised allocations and aggregates resulting from these adjustments 

shall be considered for the purposes of the Congressional Budget 

Act of 1974 as allocations and aggregates included in this resolution. 

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(c) ADJUSTMENTS.—The Chair of the House Committee on the 

Budget may adjust the aggregates, allocations, and other levels in 

this resolution for legislation which has received final congressional 

approval in the same form by the House of Representatives and the 

Senate, but has yet to be presented to or signed by the President 

at the time of final consideration of this resolution. 

SEC. 306. ADJUSTMENTS FOR CHANGES IN THE BASELINE. 

The Chair of the House Committee on the Budget may adjust the 

allocations, aggregates, reconciliation targets, and other appropriate budgetary levels in this concurrent resolution to reflect 

changes resulting from the Congressional Budget Office’s update to 

its baseline for fiscal years 2018 through 2027. 

SEC. 307. REINSTATEMENT OF PAY-AS-YOU-GO. 

In the House, and pursuant to section 301(b)(8) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, for the remainder of the 115th Congress, 

the following shall apply in lieu of ‘‘CUTGO’’ rules and principles: 

(1)(A) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), it shall 

not be in order to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report if the provisions of such measure affecting direct spending and revenues have the net effect of increasing the on-budget deficit or reducing the on-budget surplus for the period comprising either— 

(i) the current year, the budget year, and the four years 

following that budget year; or 

(ii) the current year, the budget year, and the nine years 

following that budget year. 

(B) The effect of such measure on the deficit or surplus shall 

be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget. 

(C) For the purpose of this section, the terms ‘‘budget year’’, 

‘‘current year’’, and ‘‘direct spending’’ have the meanings specified in section 250 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, except that the term ‘‘direct spending’’ 

shall also include provisions in appropriation Acts that make 

outyear modifications to substantive law as described in section 3(4)(C) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. 

(2) If a bill, joint resolution, or amendment is considered pursuant to a special order of the House directing the Clerk to add 

as a new matter at the end of such measure the provisions of 

a separate measure as passed by the House, the provisions of 

such separate measure as passed by the House shall be included in the evaluation under paragraph (1) of the bill, joint 

resolution, or amendment. 

(3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the evaluation under paragraph (1) shall exclude a provision expressly 

designated as an emergency for purposes of pay-as-you-go principles in the case of a point of order under this clause against 

consideration of— 

(i) bill or joint resolution; 

(ii) an amendment made in order as original text by a 

special order of business; 

(iii) a conference report; or 

(iv) an amendment between the Houses. 

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(B) In the case of an amendment (other than one specified 

in subparagraph (A)) to a bill or joint resolution, the evaluation 

under paragraph (1) shall give no cognizance to any designation of emergency. 

(C) If a bill, a joint resolution, an amendment made in order 

as original text by a special order of business, a conference report, or an amendment between the Houses includes a provision expressly designated as an emergency for purposes of payas-you-go principles, the Chair shall put the question of consideration with respect thereto. 

SEC. 308. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 

The House adopts the provisions of this title— 

(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 

Representatives and as such they shall be considered as part 

of the rules of the House, and these rules shall supersede other 

rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with other 

such rules; and 

(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 

House of Representatives to change those rules at any time, in 

the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any 

other rule of the House of Representatives. 

TITLE IV—POLICY STATEMENTS 

SEC. 401. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE 

COVERAGE FOR WORKING FAMILIES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Making health care coverage affordable and accessible for 

all American families will improve their health and financial 

security, which will make the economy stronger. 

(2) Medicaid is the Nation’s largest health insurance program, providing quality, comprehensive, and affordable coverage to more than 70 million vulnerable Americans, including 

more than one in three children. 

(3) Millions of low-income seniors and people with disabilities rely on Medicaid to pay for nursing home care and homeand community-based services that provide help with activities 

of daily living. 

(4) Medicaid coverage provides financial stability to families 

struggling to escape poverty and to parents of children with 

disabilities and special health care needs. 

(5) The existing financing structure of Medicaid ensures that 

Federal contributions keep pace with costs and enables States 

to respond to changing needs, such as increased enrollment in 

coverage during economic downturns or an aging population 

that requires extensive long-term care services. 

(6) Under the Affordable Care Act, 31 States and the District 

of Columbia have expanded Medicaid eligibility to low-income 

adults, including working parents who do not receive coverage 

through their employers. 

(7) Roughly 20 million previously uninsured people have 

gained health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, reducing the Nation’s uninsured rate for working-age adults to 

one of the lowest levels on record. 

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(8) The law provides premium tax credits that vary by income and the local cost of coverage and cost-sharing assistance 

to help low- and middle-income families afford quality insurance and pay their out-of-pocket costs. 

(9) The law prohibits insurers from denying coverage or 

charging higher premiums based on pre-existing conditions, requires coverage of essential health benefits like maternity care 

and prescription drugs, limits out-of-pocket costs, and prohibits 

lifetime and annual limits on coverage. 

(10) The law put in place significant cost-saving reforms to 

Federal health programs that have played a part in slowing 

the rate of healthcare spending growth in recent years, with 

2011, 2012, and 2013 experiencing the slowest growth rates in 

real per capita national health expenditures on record. 

(11) On May 4, 2017, the House of Representatives passed 

H.R.1628, the American Health Care Act of 2017, legislation 

that would repeal provisions of the Affordable Care Act, make 

deep cuts in Medicaid, and— 

(A) result in 23 million Americans losing health insurance in 2026, including 14 million people losing Medicaid; 

(B) dramatically increase costs for older adults, low-income families, and people with pre-existing conditions; (C) reduce Medicaid spending by $834 billion over ten 

years; 

(D) jeopardize care for seniors in nursing homes, children with disabilities, and families receiving Medicaid benefits as States look to reduce coverage and services; 

(E) severely undermine access to substance abuse treatment during the nationwide opioid epidemic; 

(F) shorten the life of the Medicare Hospital Insurance 

Trust Fund; and 

(G) provide nearly $1 trillion in tax cuts that mostly 

benefit millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy corporations. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that— 

(1) Congress should build upon the progress of the Affordable 

Care Act to make health care coverage more affordable and accessible to all American families, and reject any measures to 

repeal or undermine the law; 

(2) the Administration and Congress should fully implement, 

enforce, and fund the Affordable Care Act, and stop any efforts 

to sabotage the health insurance marketplaces; and 

(3) Congress should preserve Medicaid and not dismantle it 

by converting Medicaid into a block grant, per capita cap, or 

other financing arrangement that would limit Federal contributions and render the program incapable of responding to 

increased need that may result from trends in demographics or 

health care costs or from economic conditions. 

SEC. 402. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON TAX REFORM THAT PROVIDES 

SUPPORT AND RELIEF TO HARDWORKING AMERICAN 

FAMILIES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Tax plans from House Republicans and President Trump 

prioritize tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy 

corporations, while shifting more of the burden onto everyone 

else. Their plans fail to close special interest loopholes in the 

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tax code, and even add trillions of dollars of new loopholes for 

the wealthy. These plans reflect the failed theory of ‘‘trickledown’’ economics, which creates few jobs and instead leads to 

massive deficits. A return to these policies would— 

(A) fail to create good paying middle-class jobs; 

(B) do nothing to help low-income or middle-class households with the rising costs of health care, education, housing, child care, or retirement; and 

(C) widen the income gap between millionaires and billionaires and the middle class. 

(2) Americans today are working harder than ever, but continue to struggle to find good jobs, get ahead, and stay ahead. 

This is part of a four-decade trend of stagnant wages for middle-class and low-income households, even as millionaires and 

billionaires become richer and corporations reap massive profits. 

(3) The Obama Administration ended with 83 consecutive 

months of private-sector job growth, but challenges still remain 

to create more good-paying jobs and broadly shared prosperity. 

The number of long-term unemployed remains elevated, and 

unemployment for people of color continues to be higher than 

the rest of the population. Many areas remain in need of wellpaying jobs. 

(4) By almost any metric, the middle class has seen little to 

no improvements in their incomes. Real median household income in 2013 was only $7,000 higher than it was in 1979. Median weekly real earnings for workers increased less than 1 

percent from 1979 to 2014. Poorer workers have done even 

worse. For workers in the lower half of the income scale, real 

annual wages from 1979 to 2014 grew only $76. And the entire 

lower 50 percent of the United States population holds a mere 

1 percent of total national wealth. 

(5) All the while, millionaires and billionaires have seen 

their incomes and wealth skyrocket. Incomes for the top one 

percent of households grew five times as fast as for middle-income workers, and now average over $1 million a year. CEOs 

make nearly 300 times what the typical worker does. Ten percent of the population owns 76 percent of the Nation’s total 

wealth, and the average net assets of the top one percent now 

exceed $10 million per person. 

(6) The top one percent of households receives a disproportionate share—17 percent—of the benefit of major tax expenditures. This uneven distribution of major tax expenditures has 

exacerbated income and wealth inequality. The tax code treats 

income from wealth more favorably than income from work by 

giving preferential tax rates on unearned income, and it contains numerous, wasteful tax breaks for special interests. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House to responsibly reform 

the tax code to provide support and relief to low- and middle-income families, create good-paying jobs, and drive broadly-shared 

prosperity, while closing special-interest loopholes and making sure 

the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share. 

SEC. 403. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON DEFENSE AND NONDEFENSE 

FUNDING INCREASES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

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(1) The current spending limits set by the Budget Control 

Act of 2011 are too low, for both defense and nondefense funding. Defense and nondefense investments must be at appropriate levels to protect both national security and economic security. The nondefense discretionary spending limit for 2018 is 

$2 billion less than it was in 2016, in nominal terms, representing a significant cut to purchasing power. If the inflation 

rate is what the Congressional Budget Office projects, the 2018 

cap represents a reduction of nearly $30 billion compared with 

2016. Defense spending faces similar reductions. 

(2) The Budget Control Act of 2011 is based on parity for defense and nondefense spending, setting up separate caps for 

both and instituting a ‘‘firewall’’ to prevent reductions in one 

category because of increases in the other. 

(3) Bipartisan agreement has provided a solution to the austerity-level caps before, and can be used again to change these 

arbitrary spending caps to prevent the harsh impact of massive, irresponsible cuts to important Federal programs. 

(4) Congress must begin discussions and negotiations immediately, to raise the caps to appropriate levels, and maintain 

parity between defense and nondefense. 

(b) POLICY ON DEFENSE AND NONDEFENSE FUNDING INCREASES.— 

It is the policy of the House that Congress should enact increases 

to the current defense and nondefense spending limits, in equal 

amounts, without using reductions in one category to pay for increases in the other. 

SEC. 404. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON IMMIGRATION REFORM. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Fixing the country’s broken immigration system will 

mean safer communities, a stronger economy and lower budget 

deficits. 

(2) The Congressional Budget Office estimated that enacting 

the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration 

Modernization Act, as introduced by House Democrats in the 

113th Congress, would have reduced the deficit by $900 billion 

over the next 2 decades, boosting the economy by 5.4 percent, 

and increasing productivity by 1.0 percent. 

(3) The Social Security Actuary estimated that immigration 

reform will reduce the Social Security shortfall by 8 percent 

and will extend the life of the Social Security Trust Fund by 

2 years. 

(4) The United States is a Nation founded, built and sustained by immigrants, and the Congress has a responsibility to 

harness the power of that tradition by implementing an effective and fair immigration policy. 

(5) The current immigration system is broken because it 

keeps families of legal immigrants and United States citizens 

separated for decades, it allows for the exploitation of undocumented workers to the detriment of all workers, it does not 

meet the needs of our economy and discourages legal immigration, and it keeps millions of hard-working, law-abiding families who have lived in our communities for decades hiding in 

the shadows, including many thousands who came to the 

United States as infants or young children. 

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(6) Overly aggressive immigration enforcement that focuses 

on individuals with deep ties to the United States hurts State 

and local law enforcement efforts to establish and maintain 

trust with immigrant communities. The number of Latinos reporting crimes in big cities across the country is lower than 

past years, particularly among domestic violence and sexual 

assault victims. 

(7) The vast majority of individuals in U.S. Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody have not been convicted of 

a serious crime. ICE’s own statistics demonstrate that arrests 

of people with no criminal record increased 157 percent in the 

first 100 days of the Trump Administration, and only 6.5 percent of those arrested were convicted of violent crimes. 

(8) The number of detained asylum seekers continues to rise 

dramatically and detaining asylum seekers, other vulnerable 

populations, and those who do not pose risks to public safety 

is unnecessary and wasteful. 

(9) Increasing the use of alternatives to detention rather 

than expanding immigration detention would be more humane 

and cost-effective. 

(10) It has been nearly four years since the Senate passed, 

on a bipartisan basis, its comprehensive immigration reform 

bill. 

(11) Immigration reform is needed to secure the sovereignty 

of the United States of America and to establish a coherent 

and just system for integrating those who seek to join American society. 

(12) A successful immigration system cannot rely on border 

security alone. The country needs a system that promotes the 

reunification of families, protects workers and is responsive to 

the needs of employers, and implements an inclusive legalization program for those who are currently here. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that Congress enact 

comprehensive immigration reform – such as the Border Security, 

Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, introduced by House Democrats in the 113th Congress – to boost our 

economy, lower deficits, establish clear and just rules for citizenship, and make our communities safer. 

SEC. 405. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON SOCIAL SECURITY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Most of the 61 million Americans who currently receive 

earned Social Security benefits rely on these benefits for the 

majority of their income, with nearly a quarter of them relying 

on Social Security for at least 90 percent of their income. 

(2) In the past, Social Security benefits were part of a 3- 

legged stool where retirees relied on a combination of Social 

Security, a private pension, and personal savings to finance retirement. 

(3) Social Security benefits will be more important to future 

retirees as few workers will receive traditional pensions, and 

many workers cannot afford to adequately fund their retirement through employer-sponsored savings plans or IRAs. 

(4) Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) and Old Age 

and Survivors Insurance (OASI) systems are intertwined both 

in their benefit structure and in their revenues – DI recipients 

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who reach retirement age receive OASI benefits and beneficiaries in each category have helped finance the other category even if they will never receive those benefits. 

(5) Social Security benefits are already being cut as Social 

Security’s normal retirement age is increasing from 66 years 

for workers retiring now to 67 years for those born in 1960 and 

later. This cut disproportionately impacts low-earners because 

life expectancy continues to increase among higher-earners but 

not low-earners. Thus, high-earners will generally receive benefits for a longer time than low-earners. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that the House of Representatives will not adopt changes to Social Security that involve 

reductions in earned Social Security benefits. 

SEC. 406. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON PROTECTING THE MEDICARE 

GUARANTEE FOR SENIORS AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Senior citizens and persons with disabilities highly value 

the Medicare program and rely on Medicare to guarantee their 

health and financial security. 

(2) In 2018, 60,000,000 people will rely on Medicare for coverage of hospital stays, physician visits, prescription drugs, 

and other necessary medical goods and services. 

(3) The Medicare program has lower administrative costs 

than private insurance, and Medicare costs per enrollee have 

grown at a slower rate than private insurance for a given level 

of benefits. 

(4) People with Medicare already have the ability to choose 

a private insurance plan within Medicare through the Medicare Advantage option, yet two-thirds of Medicare beneficiaries 

chose the traditional fee-for-service program instead of a private plan in 2016. 

(5) Rising health care costs are not unique to Medicare or 

other Federal health programs, they are endemic to the entire 

health care system. 

(6) Converting Medicare into a voucher for the purchase of 

health insurance will merely force seniors and individuals with 

disabilities to pay much higher premiums if they want to use 

their voucher to purchase traditional Medicare coverage. 

(7) A voucher system in which the voucher payment fails to 

keep pace with growth in health costs would expose seniors 

and persons with disabilities on fixed incomes to unacceptable 

financial risks. 

(8) Shifting more health care costs onto Medicare beneficiaries would not reduce overall health care costs, instead it 

would mean beneficiaries would face higher premiums, eroding 

coverage, or both. 

(9) Versions of voucher policies that do not immediately end 

the traditional Medicare program will merely set it up for a 

death spiral as private plans siphon off healthier and less expensive beneficiaries, leaving the sickest beneficiaries in a program that will wither away. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that the Medicare guarantee for seniors and persons with disabilities should be preserved 

and strengthened, and that any legislation to end the Medicare 

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guarantee, financially penalize people for choosing traditional 

Medicare, or shift rising health care costs onto seniors by replacing 

Medicare with vouchers or premium support for the purchase of 

health insurance, should be rejected. 

SEC. 407. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON FINANCIAL STABILITY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 is an important component of the country’s 

response to the financial crisis and recession. It took a number 

of steps to protect consumers of financial products and services 

as well as protect taxpayers from the costs of another financial 

crisis. 

(2) These steps included the creation of an orderly liquidation process to allow regulators to close failing institutions that 

some argue are ‘‘too big to fail,’’ as well as a new Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), an Office of Financial Research to monitor the stability of our financial system, and the 

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Consumer Bureau). 

(3) The Consumer Bureau plays a critical role in protecting 

older Americans, military service members, student loan borrowers, and other consumers, especially in minority and lowincome communities. It has implemented new rules for mortgage markets and prepaid cards, and also successfully recovered nearly $12 billion on behalf of more than 29 million consumers and service members. 

(4) The Consumer Bureau’s funding from the Federal Reserve’s operations help give it important independence from efforts to interfere with its vital mission and activities, independence on par with every other banking regulator. 

(5) The Consumer Bureau has already faced and overcome 

efforts to obstruct its operations. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that Congress should 

continue to support the vital work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as well as its governing and financing structures 

and other key components of the Dodd-Frank legislation such as orderly liquidation authority, FSOC, and the Office of Financial Research. 

SEC. 408. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Women’s contributions are critical to the economic success of hard-working families. 

(2) Not only do women play a key role in maintaining 

healthy families, they also have unique health care needs and 

face issues that require special focus. 

(3) Every hard-working American deserves to feel safe and 

supported during retirement. Yet women are more likely to 

face financial risk during retirement because of their lower lifetime earnings and disproportionate role as family caregivers. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that Congress should 

economically empower women and protect their health and safety. 

Congress must enact policies that would accomplish the following: 

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(1) Help families attain better jobs, fight pay inequity, raise 

the minimum wage, and enable women entrepreneurs and 

small businesses to achieve their goals. 

(2) Give American families control of their own lives, and 

help them balance the demands of work and family. These policies include paid and expanded family and medical leave, paid 

sick days, and quality, affordable child care. 

(3) Strengthen the retirement security of women and their 

families by protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. 

(4) Support caregivers, many of whom sacrifice their own careers to provide for family members. 

(5) Maintain health insurance protections for women, increase funding for the prevention and treatment of women’s 

health issues such as breast cancer and heart disease, and support access to full reproductive care. 

(6) Prevent and protect women from domestic violence and 

sexual abuse. 

SEC. 409. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON NATIONAL SECURITY. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The country faces many national security challenges and 

we must continue to support a strong military that is second 

to none. 

(2) Those who serve in uniform are our most important security resource and the Administration and Congress shall continue to provide the support they need to successfully carry out 

the missions the country gives them. 

(3) A growing economy is the foundation of our security and 

enables the country to provide the resources for a strong military, sound homeland security agencies, and effective diplomacy and international development. 

(4) Austerity-level spending caps threaten adequate investment in activities critical to our economy and national security, 

which include activities funded by both the defense and nondefense portions of the discretionary budget. 

(5) Diplomacy and foreign aid are essential components of 

our security and the President’s proposal to cut these activities 

by 32 percent below current levels prompted more than 120 retired admirals and generals who have first-hand knowledge of 

their effectiveness in securing our Nation to forcefully object. 

(6) The Nation’s projected long-term debt could have serious 

consequences for our economy and security, and that more efficient military spending has to be part of an overall plan that 

effectively deals with this problem. 

(7) Reining in wasteful spending at the Nation’s security 

agencies, including the Department of Defense—the last department still unable to pass an audit—such as the elimination 

of duplicative programs and better controlling delays and cost 

overruns on weapon systems that have been identified by the 

Government Accountability Office (GAO) needs to continue as 

a priority. 

(8) The Department of Defense should continue to review defense plans and requirements to ensure that weapons developed to counter Cold War-era threats are not redundant, are 

affordable, and are applicable to 21st century threats; and such 

review should include, with the participation of the National 

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Nuclear Security Administration, examination of requirements 

for, and cost of, the nuclear weapons stockpile, nuclear weapons delivery systems, and nuclear weapons and infrastructure 

modernization. 

(9) Nonwar operation and maintenance costs per active-duty 

service member have grown at a rate well above inflation for 

decades—from $59,000 per service member in 1980 to $157,000 

per service member in 2015 (measured in constant 2017 dollars), and it is imperative that unsustainable cost growth be 

controlled in this area. 

(10) Cooperative threat reduction and other nonproliferation 

programs (securing ‘‘loose nukes’’ and other materials used in 

weapons of mass destruction), which were highlighted as high 

priorities by the 9/11 Commission, need to be funded at a level 

that is commensurate with the evolving threat. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that— 

(1) the austerity-level spending caps required by the Budget 

Control Act of 2011 for fiscal years 2018 through 2021 should 

be rescinded and replaced by a fiscal plan that is balanced and 

takes into account a comprehensive national security strategy 

that includes careful consideration of international, defense, 

homeland security, and law enforcement programs; and 

(2) efficiencies can be achieved in the national defense budget without compromising our security through greater emphasis on eliminating duplicative and wasteful programs, reforming the acquisition process, identifying and constraining 

unsustainable operating costs, and through careful analysis of 

our national security needs. 

SEC. 410. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to 

face challenges meeting the needs of the next generation of returning veterans, including sufficient funding to provide critical services and benefits. 

(2) Access to quality health care and veterans’ benefits has 

been an ongoing challenge for the VA, highlighted most recently in the ongoing claims backlog and veterans waiting 

months for health care appointments. 

(3) Providing health care where veterans live and ensuring 

a sufficient number of health care professionals, especially in 

the area of mental health treatment, have also been challenges. 

(4) The VA has made progress in reducing the number of initial benefit claims, dropping the claims backlog to less than 

94,000 from a peak of 611,000 claims just a few years ago, but 

that statistic leaves out the many veterans who are still waiting many months or even years to have their appeals decided. 

(5) The President’s budget includes a 6 percent increase over 

current-year funding but shifts funding away from critical programs that veterans rely on in favor of expanded funding that 

pays for certain veterans to get private health care at the expense of care provided at VA hospitals and clinics. 

(6) The President’s budget also cuts funding from other Federal agencies that provide lifesaving programs and services for 

veterans, including deep cuts to Medicaid benefits veterans 

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rely on, the elimination of the Interagency Council on Homelessness, steep cuts at the Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, elimination of the Legal Services Corporation, 

and severe cuts to entrepreneurship outreach programs targeted to veterans through the Small Business Administration. 

(7) The VA currently has advance appropriations for approximately 85 percent of its discretionary budget. The residual 15 

percent, which includes funding for the day-to-day operations 

at the Veterans Benefits Administration, remains vulnerable to 

a Government shutdown. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that— 

(1) Congress should support a funding level no less than the 

President’s request for veterans’ discretionary programs so that 

the VA has the resources it needs to ensure veterans get the 

health care and benefits they earned in a timely fashion; 

(2) Congress should lift the austerity-level funding cap on 

nondefense programs for 2018 and beyond to ensure adequate 

funding for veterans’ programs; 

(3) advance appropriations be expanded to cover all of VA’s 

discretionary budget to prevent delays in veterans’ benefits 

and services during a Government shutdown; 

(4) the VA submit along with its annual budget a ‘‘FutureYears Veterans Program’’ that projects its needs over five years 

to help facilitate the appropriations and oversight processes; 

(5) Congress should provide sufficient resources for the VA’s 

Office of the Inspector General to guarantee veterans are properly served and that resources are spent efficiently; 

(6) no changes be made to the Individual Unemployability 

benefit to ensure that disabled veterans, many of them severely disabled, who are deemed unable to engage in substantial work as a result of their service to our country, continue 

to receive the full disability and social security benefits they 

earned and were promised; and 

(7) Congress shall provide sufficient funding and staff resources for VA hospitals and clinics, and that any increased 

funding for private and community care not provided directly 

by the VA should not come at the expense of necessary resources for VA hospitals and clinics. 

SEC. 411. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON DISASTER RESPONSE FUNDING. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House find the following: 

(1) Natural disasters such as hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and 

Maria require swift congressional action to help storm survivors get their lives back on track, rebuild disaster-stricken 

communities, and prevent further damage to the economy. 

(2) The Budget Control Act of 2001 provides procedural tools 

specifically to respond to natural disasters, by allowing adjustments to the spending caps for disaster and emergency spending. 

(3) Mitigation and prevention is an important part of disaster recovery and response, providing investments that make 

future disasters less costly in terms of both dollars and lives. 

(b) POLICY ON FUNDING FOR DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY.—It is the policy of the House that Congress should act swiftly 

to assist with recovery from hurricanes and other natural disasters. 

Such funding should be provided using the budgetary provisions in 

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place for this purpose: providing adjustments to the spending caps 

for disaster and emergency response, recovery, and mitigation. 

Congress must also support efforts to address future disaster damage and loss, by appropriately funding mitigation and prevention 

efforts. 

SEC. 412. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Federal workforce provides vital services to our Nation on a daily basis. It includes those who patrol and secure 

our borders, protect us from terrorists, take care of our veterans, help run our airports, counter cyber-attacks, find cures 

for deadly diseases, and keep our food supply safe. 

(2) Veterans make up 31 percent of the Federal workforce. 

(3) Many Federal workers are paid at a rate that is far below 

their private sector counterparts. 

(4) The Federal workforce is older than in past decades and 

older than the private sector workforce. Nearly one third of the 

Federal workforce is eligible to retire. 

(5) Federal employee pay and benefits are not the cause of 

the country’s deficits and debt. The Federal workforce has already contributed more than $180 billion toward reducing the 

country’s deficits in the form of pay freezes, pay raises insufficient to keep pace with inflation, furloughs, and increased retirement contributions. The President’s budget for 2018 continues to unfairly target the Federal workforce by proposing an 

additional $149 billion in compensation and retirement benefit 

cuts. 

(6) Since 1975, the Federal workforce has declined 35 percent relative to the size of the population of the United States. 

(7) Nearly all of the increase in the Federal civilian workforce from 2001 to 2016 is due to increases at security-related 

agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of 

Homeland Security, and Department of Veterans Affairs. 

(8) Proposals to reduce the size of the workforce at nonsecurity agencies by 10 percent have excluded an assessment of 

their impact on government services. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that Congress should 

not target Federal employees to achieve further reductions in the 

deficit as they have already contributed more than their fair share, 

that Federal workers should be compensated with pay and benefits 

at a level that enables the government to attract high quality people—which is especially important during this period when more 

workers will be retiring—and that no proposal to reduce the size 

of the workforce should be considered without an assessment of its 

impact on government services. 

SEC. 413. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Global climate change is a threat to national security, 

public health, and economic growth. 

(2) The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 

Change concluded that the effects of climate change are occurring worldwide, stating: ‘‘The impacts of climate change have 

already been felt in recent decades on all continents and across 

the oceans’’. 

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(3) The United States Government Accountability Office described climate change as, ‘‘a complex, crosscutting issue that 

poses risks to many environmental and economic systems—including agriculture, infrastructure, ecosystems, and human 

health—and presents a significant financial risk to the Federal 

Government’’. 

(4) In March 2017, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, in 

written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, 

stated that ‘‘climate change can be a driver of instability and 

the Department of Defense must pay attention to potential adverse impacts generated by this phenomenon’’. 

(5) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported 

that 2016 was the warmest year on record, setting a new 

record for global average surface temperatures for the third 

year in a row. Furthermore, 16 of the 17 warmest years on 

record have occurred since 2001. 

(6) The United States National Research Council’s National 

Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee 

found climate change affects ‘‘human health, water supply, agriculture, transportation, energy, coastal areas, and many 

other sectors of society, with increasingly adverse impacts on 

the American economy and quality of life’’. 

(7) The most vulnerable among us, including children, the elderly, low-income individuals, and those with underlying 

health conditions, face even greater health risks as a result of 

climate change. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that climate change 

presents a significant public health, environmental, and financial 

risk to the United States. The United States must continue to play 

a leadership role on climate change policy and should not retreat 

from global commitments on climate change. Congress must provide robust funding for climate change science, which provides critical information for protecting human health, defending the United 

States, and preserving economic and environmental systems 

throughout the world. 

SEC. 414. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON INCREASED EFFICIENCY AND 

ELIMINATING WASTE. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) The Government Accountability Office (‘‘GAO’’) identifies 

examples of waste, duplication, and overlap in Federal programs, and makes regular recommendations regarding ways to 

reduce costs and increase revenue. 

(2) The Comptroller General has stated that addressing the 

identified waste, duplication, and overlap in Federal programs 

‘‘could lead to tens of billions of dollars of additional savings, 

with significant opportunities for improved efficiencies, cost 

savings, or revenue enhancements in the areas of defense, information technology, education and training, health care, energy, and tax enforcement.’’ 

(3) The tax gap, the difference between taxes owed and taxes 

paid, now averages $458 billion annually. Even modest improvements in enforcing existing law could yield a boost in revenue without any changes to the tax code. 

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(4) Tax expenditures, or spending through the tax code, total 

$1.5 trillion per year and represent the largest category of 

spending in the budget — exceeding Medicare, Medicaid, and 

Social Security. However, unlike other types of spending, tax 

expenditures are not reviewed in any systematic way in the 

annual budget process. 

(5) Improper payments, payments that should not have been 

made or that were made in an incorrect amount, totaled $144 

billion for 2016. While some improper payments are the result 

of fraud, the vast majority are due to unintentional errors, 

such as payments to eligible beneficiaries that were not properly verified, or overpayments or underpayments because of a 

data entry mistake. 

(6) Shutting down the government, arbitrarily cutting agency 

budgets, and funding large portions of the government through 

stop-gap appropriations do not lead to efficient and effective 

government. 

(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the House that Congress must 

continue to root out wasteful spending, make government operations more efficient, pass appropriations bills on time, and avoid 

costly government shutdowns. Congress must task agencies with 

shrinking the error rate in government programs and provide adequate budgetary resources for agencies to develop new processes, 

review expenditures, and improve information technology systems. 

SEC. 415. POLICY OF THE HOUSE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF RUSSIAN 

INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 

(a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the following: 

(1) Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, and foreign interference in them undermines the public 

trust and casts doubt on the legitimacy of our government. 

(2) The country’s intelligence agencies all agree that Russia 

launched a campaign to undermine the 2016 U.S. presidential 

election, which included cyber-attacks, dissemination of false 

information, and other intelligence operations to malign Secretary Hillary Clinton and increase the odds of a Donald 

Trump presidency. 

(3) Members of the Trump campaign had repeated contact 

with Russian government officials and oligarchs and then 

failed to report this contact in testimony to Congress and in security clearance applications. One such meeting reportedly included a request for a back-channel line of communications 

with the Russian government using Russian facilities, which 

would preclude U.S. Government oversight. Another involved a 

Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer and a former Soviet counterintelligence officer under the assumption that they would provide politically damaging information about Secretary Hillary 

Clinton as part of the Russian government’s effort to support 

the Trump campaign. 

(4) Under the direction of Federal Bureau of Investigation 

Director James Comey, the FBI was investigating whether 

members of President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia 

to influence the election. 

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(5) On May 9, 2017, President Trump fired FBI Director 

Comey and then made statements suggesting his dismissal 

was to stop the investigation of collusion. 

(6) On May 17, 2017, the Department of Justice announced 

the appointment of former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III 

to serve as Special Counsel to investigate Russian interference 

into the 2016 presidential election and any coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with 

the Trump campaign. 

(b) POLICY ON THE INVESTIGATION OF RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN

THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.—It is the policy of this 

concurrent resolution that to restore confidence in our government 

and to preserve the sanctity of our electoral process, Congress must 

ensure adequate funding for the Special Counsel appointed by the 

Department of Justice so that he can perform a thorough and nonpartisan investigation of Russia’s campaign to affect the 2016 U.S. 

presidential election and any individuals in the United States that 

may have colluded in those efforts. 

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