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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6144 
To delay and offset the sequester to occur in January 2022 under the 
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 7, 2021 
Mr. SMITH of Missouri (for himself, Mr. BRADY, Mrs. RODGERS of Wash-
ington, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. WENSTRUP, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. CARTER of 
Georgia, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina, 
and Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the 
Committees on the Budget, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Agri-
culture, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To delay and offset the sequester to occur in January 2022 
under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Removing Waste and 
Protecting Medicare Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PAYGO ACT SEQUESTER DELAY. 
No sequester shall be ordered during calendar year 
2022 after Congress adjourns to end the 1st session of 
the 117th Congress under section 5 of the Statutory Pay- 
As-You-Go Act of 2010. 
SEC. 3. OFFSET OF SEQUESTER DELAY. 
(a) REINSTATEMENT OF PUBLIC CHARGE RULE.— 
The rule relating to inadmissibility on public charge 
grounds (84 Fed. Reg. 41292, published on August 14, 
2019) as in effect on October 15, 2019, shall be consid-
ered to be in effect as of the date of enactment of this 
Act, and the Department of Homeland Security shall re-
implement such rule as soon as may be practicable. 
(b) SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER REQUIREMENTS FOR 
CHILD TAX CREDIT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 24(e) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(e) SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) TAXPAYER.—No credit shall be allowed 
under this section to any taxpayer who does not in-
clude on the return of tax for the taxable year— 
‘‘(A) such individual’s social security num-
ber, and 
‘‘(B) if the individual is married, the social 
security number of such individual’s spouse. 
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‘‘(2) QUALIFYING CHILDREN.—No credit shall 
be allowed under this section to a taxpayer with re-
spect to any qualifying child unless the taxpayer in-
cludes the social security number of such child on 
the return of tax for the taxable year. 
‘‘(3) SOCIAL
SECURITY
NUMBER.—For pur-
poses of this subsection, the term ‘social security 
number’ means a social security number issued to an 
individual by the Social Security Administration, but 
only if the social security number is issued— 
‘‘(A) to a citizen of the United States or 
pursuant to subclause (I) (or that portion of 
subclause (III) that relates to subclause (I)) of 
section 205(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Social Security 
Act, and 
‘‘(B) before the due date of the return of 
tax referred to in paragraph (1) or (2), as the 
case may be.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 24(h) 
of such Code is amended by striking paragraph (7). 
(3) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by this subsection shall apply to taxable years begin-
ning after December 31, 2021. 
(c) REINSTATEMENT
OF SNAP WORK REQUIRE-
MENT RULE.—The rule relating to work requirements 
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under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program 
(84 Fed. Reg. 66782, published on December 5, 2019) 
as in effect on April 1, 2020, shall be considered to be 
in effect as of the date of enactment of this Act, and the 
Department of Agriculture shall reimplement such rule as 
soon as may be practicable. 
(d) RESCISSION OF CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL 
FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS.—Of the total amount of unob-
ligated amounts available under sections 602 and 603 of 
title VI of the Social Security Act, $53,500,000,000 are 
hereby permanently rescinded. 
(e) RESCISSION OF CAPITAL PROJECTS FUNDS.— 
The total amount of unobligated amounts available under 
section 604 of title VI of the Social Security Act are here-
by permanently rescinded. 
SEC. 4. ADJUSTMENTS TO MEDICARE PROGRAM SEQUES-
TRATION REDUCTION WITH RESPECT TO FIS-
CAL YEAR 2022. 
(a) EXTENSION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 3709(a) of division 
A of the CARES Act (2 U.S.C. 901a note) is 
amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2021’’ and in-
serting ‘‘March 31, 2022’’. 
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