H. Con. Res. 71 
Agreed to October 26, 2017
One Hundred Fifteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen 
Concurrent Resolution 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concur-
ring), 
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 concur-
rent resolution is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018. 
TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS 
Subtitle A—Budgetary Levels in Both Houses 
Sec. 1101. Recommended levels and amounts. 
Sec. 1102. Major functional categories. 
Subtitle B—Levels and Amounts in the Senate 
Sec. 1201. Social Security in the Senate. 
Sec. 1202. Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses in the Senate. 
TITLE II—RECONCILIATION 
Sec. 2001. Reconciliation in the Senate. 
Sec. 2002. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives. 
TITLE III—RESERVE FUNDS 
Sec. 3001. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect flexible and affordable health care 
for all. 
Sec. 3002. Revenue-neutral reserve fund to reform the American tax system. 
Sec. 3003. Reserve fund for reconciliation legislation. 
Sec. 3004. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for extending the State Children’s Health 
Insurance Program. 
Sec. 3005. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to strengthen American families. 
Sec. 3006. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote innovative educational and nu-
tritional models and systems for American students. 
Sec. 3007. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to improve the American banking system. 
Sec. 3008. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote American agriculture, energy, 
transportation, and infrastructure improvements. 
Sec. 3009. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to restore American military power. 
Sec. 3010. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for veterans and service members. 
Sec. 3011. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for public lands and the environment. 
Sec. 3012. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to secure the American border. 
Sec. 3013. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to promote economic growth, the private 
sector, and to enhance job creation. 
Sec. 3014. Deficit-neutral reserve fund for legislation modifying statutory budg-
etary controls. 
Sec. 3015. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to prevent the taxpayer bailout of pension 
plans. 
Sec. 3016. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to implementing work requirements 
in all means-tested Federal welfare programs.
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Sec. 3017. Deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect Medicare and repeal the Inde-
pendent Payment Advisory Board. 
Sec. 3018. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to affordable child and dependent 
care. 
Sec. 3019. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to worker training programs. 
Sec. 3020. Reserve fund for legislation to provide disaster funds for relief and re-
covery efforts to areas devastated by hurricanes and flooding in 2017. 
Sec. 3021. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting Medicare and Med-
icaid. 
Sec. 3022. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the provision of tax relief for 
families with children. 
Sec. 3023. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the provision of tax relief for 
small businesses. 
Sec. 3024. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to tax relief for hard-working mid-
dle-class Americans. 
Sec. 3025. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to making the American tax system 
simpler and fairer for all Americans. 
Sec. 3026. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to tax cuts for working American 
families. 
Sec. 3027. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the provision of incentives for 
businesses to invest in America and create jobs in America. 
Sec. 3028. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to eliminating tax breaks for com-
panies that ship jobs to foreign countries. 
Sec. 3029. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to providing full, permanent, and 
mandatory funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program. 
Sec. 3030. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to tax reform which maintains the 
progressivity of the tax system. 
Sec. 3031. Deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to significantly improving the budg-
et process. 
TITLE IV—BUDGET PROCESS 
Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement 
Sec. 4101. Point of order against advance appropriations in the Senate. 
Sec. 4102. Point of order against certain changes in mandatory programs. 
Sec. 4103. Point of order against provisions that constitute changes in mandatory 
programs affecting the Crime Victims Fund. 
Sec. 4104. Point of order against designation of funds for overseas contingency op-
erations. 
Sec. 4105. Point of order against reconciliation amendments with unknown budg-
etary effects. 
Sec. 4106. Pay-As-You-Go point of order in the Senate. 
Sec. 4107. Honest accounting: cost estimates for major legislation to incorporate 
macroeconomic effects. 
Sec. 4108. Adjustment authority for amendments to statutory caps. 
Sec. 4109. Adjustment for wildfire suppression funding in the Senate. 
Sec. 4110. Adjustment for improved oversight of spending. 
Sec. 4111. Repeal of certain limitations. 
Sec. 4112. Emergency legislation. 
Sec. 4113. Enforcement filing in the Senate. 
Subtitle B—Other Provisions 
Sec. 4201. Oversight of Government performance. 
Sec. 4202. Budgetary treatment of certain discretionary administrative expenses. 
Sec. 4203. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. 
Sec. 4204. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. 
Sec. 4205. Adjustments to reflect legislation not included in the baseline. 
Sec. 4206. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 
TITLE V—BUDGET PROCESS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement 
Sec. 5101. Point of order against increasing long-term direct spending. 
Sec. 5102. Allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism. 
Sec. 5103. Limitation on changes in certain mandatory programs. 
Sec. 5104. Limitation on advance appropriations. 
Sec. 5105. Estimates of debt service costs. 
Sec. 5106. Fair-value credit estimates. 
Sec. 5107. Estimates of macroeconomic effects of major legislation. 
Sec. 5108. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources.
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Sec. 5109. Scoring rule for Energy Savings Performance Contracts. 
Sec. 5110. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the 
Highway Trust Fund. 
Sec. 5111. Prohibition on use of Federal Reserve surpluses as an offset. 
Sec. 5112. Prohibition on use of guarantee fees as an offset. 
Sec. 5113. Modification of reconciliation in the House of Representatives. 
Subtitle B—Other Provisions 
Sec. 5201. Budgetary treatment of administrative expenses. 
Sec. 5202. Application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates. 
Sec. 5203. Adjustments to reflect changes in concepts and definitions. 
Sec. 5204. Adjustment for changes in the baseline. 
Sec. 5205. Application of rule regarding limits on discretionary spending. 
Sec. 5206. Enforcement filing in the House. 
Sec. 5207. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 
Subtitle C—Adjustment Authority 
Sec. 5301. Adjustment authority for amendments to statutory caps. 
Subtitle D—Reserve Funds 
Sec. 5401. Reserve fund for investments in national infrastructure. 
Sec. 5402. Reserve fund for comprehensive tax reform. 
Sec. 5403. Reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. 
Sec. 5404. Reserve fund for the repeal or replacement of President Obama’s health 
care laws. 
TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND 
AMOUNTS 
Subtitle A—Budgetary Levels in Both 
Houses 
SEC. 1101. 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: $2,490,936,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: $2,613,683,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: $2,755,381,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: $2,883,381,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: $3,015,847,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: $3,162,063,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: $3,306,948,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: $3,463,269,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: $3,654,829,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: $3,825,184,000,000. 
(B) The amounts by which the aggregate levels of 
Federal revenues should be changed are as follows: 
Fiscal year 2018: ¥$167,200,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: ¥$169,500,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: ¥$166,000,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: ¥$165,200,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: ¥$166,400,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: ¥$167,700,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: ¥$169,800,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: ¥$172,200,000,000.
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Fiscal year 2026: ¥$146,400,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: ¥$145,000,000,000. 
(2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes of the enforce-
ment of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total new 
budget authority are as follows: 
Fiscal year 2018: $3,136,721,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: $3,220,542,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: $3,319,687,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: $3,344,861,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: $3,501,231,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: $3,563,762,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: $3,607,752,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: $3,753,919,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: $3,851,463,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: $3,942,710,000,000. 
(3) BUDGET
OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the enforcement 
of this resolution, the appropriate levels of total budget outlays 
are as follows: 
Fiscal year 2018: $3,131,688,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: $3,233,119,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: $3,310,579,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: $3,370,283,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: $3,486,230,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: $3,532,290,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: $3,561,834,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: $3,710,120,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: $3,810,435,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: $3,903,041,000,000. 
(4) DEFICITS.—For purposes of the enforcement of this reso-
lution, the amounts of the deficits are as follows: 
Fiscal year 2018: $640,752,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: $619,436,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: $555,198,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: $486,902,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: $470,383,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: $370,227,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: $254,886,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: $246,851,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: $155,606,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: $77,857,000,000. 
(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: $21,278,691,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: $22,063,363,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: $22,760,763,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: $23,396,024,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: $23,992,408,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: $24,508,029,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: $24,953,195,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: $25,375,994,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: $25,777,513,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: $25,999,469,000,000. 
(6) DEBT
HELD
BY
THE
PUBLIC.—The appropriate levels 
of debt held by the public are as follows: 
Fiscal year 2018: $15,595,294,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: $16,281,015,000,000.
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Fiscal year 2020: $16,933,381,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: $17,553,196,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: $18,188,386,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: $18,765,097,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: $19,269,019,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: $19,809,369,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: $20,307,841,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: $20,780,452,000,000. 
SEC. 1102. 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, $557,253,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $569,287,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) New budget authority, $570,316,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $568,721,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) New budget authority, $584,504,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $574,347,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) New budget authority, $598,730,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $584,706,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) New budget authority, $613,707,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $601,894,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) New budget authority, $629,014,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $611,538,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) New budget authority, $644,732,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $621,649,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) New budget authority, $660,854,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $641,891,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) New budget authority, $678,183,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $658,658,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) New budget authority, $695,076,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $675,108,000,000. 
(2) International Affairs (150): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) New budget authority, $45,157,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $44,985,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) New budget authority, $43,978,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $43,114,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) New budget authority, $44,042,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $42,992,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) New budget authority, $44,060,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $42,702,000,000.