I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1955 
To temporarily modify the application of the sequester under the Statutory 
Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2021 
Mr. DONALDS (for himself, Mr. BANKS, Mr. NORMAN, and Mr. MANN) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Budget 
A BILL 
To temporarily modify the application of the sequester 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 ‘‘Responsible and Effec-
tive Spending Cuts of Undesirable Expenditures Act’’ or 
the ‘‘RESCUE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF PAYGO ACT SEQUESTRATION. 
(a) APPLICATION.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, with respect to carrying out the 
first sequestration order under the Statutory Pay- 
As-You-Go Act of 2010 issued after the date of en-
actment of this Act, before any other direct spending 
program (including Medicare programs described in 
section 256(d) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985) is reduced under 
such order, the budgetary resources of the direct 
spending programs described in subsection (b)— 
(A) shall be reduced, in the order such 
provisions are listed in such subsection, in an 
amount equal to the amount of any reduction 
required, but for this section, for Medicare pro-
grams under section 6 of the Statutory Pay-As- 
You-Go Act of 2010; and 
(B) after the reduction required under sub-
paragraph (A), shall be further reduced, in the 
order such provisions are listed in such sub-
section, by the amount (if any) of the remaining 
budget-year debit as determined under such 
section 6. 
(2) REGULAR
PROCEDURE.—After the reduc-
tions required by paragraph (1), such sequestration 
order shall be carried out with respect to direct 
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spending programs (excluding such Medicare pro-
grams) consistent with the requirements of the Stat-
utory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. 
(b) WASTEFUL SPENDING PROGRAMS.—The direct 
spending programs described in this subsection are as fol-
lows: 
(1) Section 9704 of the American Rescue Plan 
Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–2) and the amend-
ments made by such section (relating to special fi-
nancial assistance program for financially troubled 
multiemployer plans). 
(2) Section 9901 of such Act and the amend-
ments made by such section (relating to coronavirus 
State and local fiscal recovery funds). 
(3) Title X of such Act (relating to foreign rela-
tions). 
(4) Any other provision of such Act or any 
amendment made by such provision (if applicable) 
that is not related to the direct health care treat-
ment and prevention of COVID–19 in the United 
States. 
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