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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3787 
To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to offset 
emergency spending, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 5, 2025 
Mr. STUTZMAN (for himself, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. PERRY, Mr. GOODEN, Mr. 
SHREVE, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. SELF, and Mr. NORMAN) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget, and 
in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget to offset emergency spending, 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 ‘‘Emergency Spending 
Accountability Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SEQUESTRATION TO OFFSET EMERGENCY SPEND-
ING. 
(a) SEQUESTRATION.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to any direct 
spending or discretionary spending that is appro-
priated or otherwise made available during a fiscal 
year that is emergency spending, the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall, on October 
1 of the subsequent fiscal year and each of the 4 fol-
lowing fiscal years, issue a sequestration order that 
reduces total budgetary resources such that outlay 
savings equal one-fifth of the total amount of such 
emergency spending. 
(2) NOTIFICATION.—The Director shall submit 
written notice to Congress on the date of any se-
questration order under paragraph (1). Such notice 
shall include a list of any account affected by such 
order. 
(3) DISCRETIONARY AND DIRECT SPENDING AP-
PLICATION.—If emergency spending made available 
during a fiscal year is discretionary spending, any 
sequestration under subsection (a) with respect to 
such emergency spending may only be made with re-
spect to discretionary accounts. If emergency spend-
ing made available during a fiscal year is direct 
spending, any sequestration required under sub-
section (a) with respect to such emergency spending 
may only be made to direct spending accounts. 
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(b) APPLICATION.—With respect to any sequestra-
tion under subsection (a)— 
(1) except as provided in subsection (c), and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, no ac-
count is exempted from reduction; 
(2) such reduction shall be at a uniform rate 
across all programs and activities that are subject to 
sequestration; and 
(3) the total amount of the sequestration shall 
be reduced by the amount of any offsetting reduc-
tion in discretionary spending or direct spending (as 
the case may be) in the measure enacted into law 
that provided the applicable emergency spending. 
(c) EXEMPT PROGRAMS.—The following programs 
and accounts shall be exempt from sequestration under 
this section: 
(1) Benefits payable under the old-age, sur-
vivors, and disability insurance program established 
under title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
401 et seq.), and benefits payable under sections 3 
and 4 of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 (45 
U.S.C. 231 et seq.). 
(2) Any account within budget function 050 
(National Defense). 
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