III 
Calendar No. 245 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 71 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
OCTOBER 16, 2017 
Received and placed on the calendar 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
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. 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), 
SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET 
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018. 
(a) DECLARATION.—The Congress determines and 
declares that prior concurrent resolutions on the budget 
are replaced as of fiscal year 2018 and that this concur-
rent resolution establishes the budget for fiscal year 2018 
and sets forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2019 through 2027. 
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(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 AND RELATED MATTERS 
Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House of Representatives. 
TITLE III—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES 
Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement 
Sec. 301. Point of order against increasing long-term direct spending. 
Sec. 302. Allocation for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism. 
Sec. 303. Limitation on changes in certain mandatory programs. 
Sec. 304. Limitation on advance appropriations. 
Sec. 305. Estimates of debt service costs. 
Sec. 306. Fair-value credit estimates. 
Sec. 307. Estimates of macroeconomic effects of major legislation. 
Sec. 308. Adjustments for improved control of budgetary resources. 
Sec. 309. Scoring rule for Energy Savings Performance Contracts. 
Sec. 310. Limitation on transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to the 
Highway Trust Fund. 
Sec. 311. Prohibition on use of Federal Reserve surpluses as an offset. 
Sec. 312. Prohibition on use of guarantee fees 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. Adjustment for changes in the baseline. 
Sec. 325. Application of rule regarding limits on discretionary spending. 
Sec. 326. Exercise of rulemaking powers. 
TITLE IV—RESERVE FUNDS IN THE HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES 
Sec. 401. Reserve fund for commercialization of air traffic control. 
Sec. 402. Reserve fund for investments in national infrastructure. 
Sec. 403. Reserve fund for comprehensive tax reform. 
Sec. 404. Reserve fund for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. 
Sec. 405. Reserve fund for the repeal or replacement of President Obama’s 
health care laws. 
TITLE V—POLICY STATEMENTS IN THE HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES 
Sec. 501. Policy statement on a balanced budget amendment. 
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(4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of 
the enforcement of this concurrent resolution, the 
amounts of the deficits (on-budget) are as follows: 
Fiscal year 2018: $494,529,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: $497,949,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: $412,612,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: $359,511,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: $364,017,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: $271,908,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: $171,618,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: $144,426,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: $85,342,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: -$4,895,000,000. 
(5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The appropriate 
levels of debt subject to limit are as follows: 
Fiscal year 2018: $21,059,756,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: $21,720,619,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: $22,263,387,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: $22,717,657,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: $23,120,068,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: $23,414,924,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: $23,577,205,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: $23,665,687,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: $23,701,446,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: $23,484,672,000,000. 
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(B) Outlays, $636,795,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$693,646,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $666,519,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$728,125,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $698,761,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$731,818,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $717,568,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$735,468,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $720,401,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$739,157,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $720,755,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$742,886,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $729,581,000,000. 
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Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$747,414,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $734,037,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$751,098,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $737,798,000,000. 
(2) International Affairs (150): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$41,521,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $43,643,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$40,210,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $41,207,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$39,428,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $39,965,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$38,654,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $38,585,000,000. 
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Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$37,623,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $38,021,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$38,445,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $37,795,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$39,285,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $38,102,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$40,174,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $38,643,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$41,121,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $39,365,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$42,025,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $40,175,000,000. 
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(3) General Science, Space, and Technology 
(250): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$28,524,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $30,072,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$29,107,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $29,365,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$29,702,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $29,360,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$30,346,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $29,718,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$31,018,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $30,259,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$31,694,000,000. 
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(B) Outlays, $30,797,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$32,378,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $31,325,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$33,112,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $31,928,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$33,854,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $32,550,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$34,602,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $33,162,000,000. 
(4) Energy (270): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$3,088,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $2,559,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$1,704,000,000. 
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(B) Outlays, $1,714,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$11,179,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$11,813,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$1,871,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $786,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$1,705,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $445,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$754,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$491,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$437,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$727,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$4,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$1,052,000,000. 
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Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$2,233,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $1,207,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$2,324,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $1,370,000,000. 
(5) Natural Resources and Environment (300): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$31,720,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $35,641,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$31,856,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $33,751,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$33,255,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $33,581,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$32,704,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $32,652,000,000. 
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Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$34,295,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $33,909,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$34,684,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $34,186,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$34,598,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $34,081,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$35,520,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $34,921,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$36,186,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $35,526,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$36,742,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $36,078,000,000. 
(6) Agriculture (350): 
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Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$24,223,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $22,913,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$21,091,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $20,200,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$19,786,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $19,293,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$18,217,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $17,660,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$17,835,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $17,339,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$18,153,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $17,713,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$18,880,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $18,331,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$19,863,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $19,225,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$20,214,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $19,593,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$20,422,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $19,817,000,000. 
(7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$7,287,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$19,601,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$7,517,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$15,753,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$10,358,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$18,126,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$13,446,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$22,106,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$12,880,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$22,470,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$12,330,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$22,598,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$10,989,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$22,362,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$10,255,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$22,849,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$11,141,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$23,569,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$11,933,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$24,521,000,000. 
(8) Transportation (400): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$88,095,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $91,796,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$88,892,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $90,602,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$82,748,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $90,508,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$37,190,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $77,995,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$66,950,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $65,076,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$66,895,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $68,694,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$67,483,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $69,617,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$68,481,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $69,074,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$69,714,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $69,044,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$70,948,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $69,741,000,000. 
(9) Community and Regional Development 
(450): 
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Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$4,365,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $18,626,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$4,170,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $16,983,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$4,240,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $11,842,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$4,353,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $9,558,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$4,487,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $6,386,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$4,556,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $5,090,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$4,673,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $4,745,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$4,857,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $4,767,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$5,077,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $4,805,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$4,953,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $4,809,000,000. 
(10) Education, Training, Employment, and 
Social Services (500): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$69,920,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $89,295,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$79,090,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $81,404,000,000. 
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Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$80,305,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $81,129,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$81,922,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $82,479,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$82,350,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $83,539,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$86,279,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $85,843,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$86,641,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $87,897,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$86,977,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $88,522,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$87,459,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $89,186,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$88,216,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $90,080,000,000. 
(11) Health (550): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$579,328,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $551,277,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$564,387,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $570,419,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$552,405,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $541,949,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$512,289,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $518,445,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$528,560,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $533,688,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$547,998,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $549,687,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$571,335,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $569,207,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$594,923,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $591,171,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$618,119,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $613,682,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$623,810,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $626,774,000,000. 
(12) Medicare (570): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$593,830,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $593,567,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$652,984,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $652,740,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$692,126,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $691,917,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$739,367,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $739,161,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$826,276,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $826,057,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$845,800,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $845,593,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$850,393,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $850,177,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$916,244,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $916,009,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$988,183,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $987,942,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$1,053,671,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $1,053,435,000,000. 
(13) Income Security (600): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$491,789,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $477,428,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$464,425,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $454,786,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$475,015,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $464,925,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$484,414,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $475,140,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$492,453,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $489,299,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$475,767,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $468,217,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$484,425,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $471,370,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$493,048,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $480,920,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$502,057,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $496,505,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$511,675,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $505,382,000,000. 
(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: 
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(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: 
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(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: 
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(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, 
$51,367,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $61,079,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$58,245,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $58,867,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$59,720,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $60,036,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$61,054,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $60,946,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$62,092,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $61,925,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$63,671,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $63,462,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$65,285,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $65,043,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$66,947,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $66,498,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$69,907,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $70,200,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$70,270,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $69,722,000,000. 
(17) General Government (800): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$23,564,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $23,091,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$23,948,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $23,314,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$23,557,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $23,303,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$23,386,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $23,190,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$23,127,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $23,013,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$26,420,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $26,057,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$26,351,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $26,168,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$26,246,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $26,060,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$26,083,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $25,917,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$25,855,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $25,722,000,000. 
(18) Net Interest (900): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$376,842,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $376,842,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$409,185,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $409,185,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$450,859,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $450,859,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2021: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$493,778,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $493,778,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2022: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$531,929,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $531,929,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2023: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$565,282,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $565,282,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2024: 
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(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$589,292,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $589,292,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2025: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$607,012,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $607,012,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2026: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$620,536,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $620,536,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2027: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
$623,786,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, $623,911,000,000. 
(19) Allowances (920): 
Fiscal year 2018: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$44,505,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$23,272,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2019: 
(A) 
New 
budget 
authority, 
-$42,219,000,000. 
(B) Outlays, -$34,499,000,000. 
Fiscal year 2020: 
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SEC. 303. LIMITATION ON CHANGES IN CERTAIN MANDA-
TORY PROGRAMS. 
(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘change 
in mandatory programs’’ means a provision that— 
(1) would have been estimated as affecting di-
rect 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 were 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 de-
crease in outlays over 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 REP-
RESENTATIVES.— 
(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 changes in 
mandatory programs enacted in relation to a full fis-
cal year to be more than the amount specified in 
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paragraph (3), shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives. 
(2) AMENDMENTS
AND
CONFERENCE
RE-
PORTS.—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 mak-
ing 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 changes 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, $19,100,000,000; 
(B) for fiscal year 2019, $17,000,000,000; 
and 
(C) for fiscal year 2020, $15,000,000,000. 
(c) DETERMINATION.—For purposes of this section, 
budgetary levels shall be determined on the basis of esti-
mates provided by the chair of the Committee on the 
Budget of the House of Representatives. 
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SEC. 304. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Representatives, 
except as provided for in subsection (b), any general ap-
propriation bill or bill or joint resolution continuing appro-
priations, or amendment thereto or conference report 
thereon, 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 Ad-
vance 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 budg-
et authority for programs in the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs identified pursuant to subsection 
(b)(2). 
(d) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘advance appropria-
tion’’ means any new discretionary budget authority pro-
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vided in a general appropriation bill or joint resolution 
continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018, or any 
amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that first 
becomes available for the first fiscal year following fiscal 
year 2018. 
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, an estimate of any 
change in debt service costs resulting from carrying out 
such bill or resolution. Any estimate of debt service 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 resolu-
tion. This section shall not apply to authorizations of pro-
grams funded by discretionary spending or to appropria-
tion bills or joint resolutions, 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 also, 
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any bill, joint resolution, or amendment that provides new 
budget authority for a fiscal year or to any conference re-
port on any such bill or resolution if— 
(1) the enactment of that bill or resolution; 
(2) the adoption and enactment of that amend-
ment; or 
(3) the enactment of that bill or resolution in 
the form recommended in that conference report, 
would not cause the 302(a) allocation to the Committee 
on Appropriations for fiscal year 2018 to be exceeded. 
SEC. 326. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 
The House of Representatives adopts the provisions 
of this title and title II— 
(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 incon-
sistent 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 the same manner, and to 
the same extent as is the case of any other rule of 
the House of Representatives. 
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