Implementing DOGE Act

Bill: 118-hr-10413
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2024-12-16
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Latest action: action_date: 2024-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries:

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 10413 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 16, 2024 Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL To provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity discretionary spending, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Implementing Decreases in Overall Government Expenditures Act or the Implementing DOGE Act . 2. Across-the-board rescissions (a) Definitions In this Act: (1) Budget authority The term budget authority has the meaning given that term in section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 622 ). (2) Discretionary appropriations; security category The terms discretionary appropriations and security category have the meanings given such terms in section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 900(c) ). (3) Excess growth percent The term excess growth percent means the percentage in excess of one percent that the total annual appropriations exceeded the previous fiscal year’s annual appropriations. (4) Nonsecurity discretionary appropriations The term nonsecurity discretionary appropriations means discretionary appropriations provided in a regular appropriation Act that are not included in the security category. (5) Regular appropriation act The term regular appropriation Act — (A) means an annual appropriation Act (as described in section 105 of title 1, United States Code) providing new budget authority for the programs, projects, and activities under the jurisdiction of a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and (B) includes— (i) a title, division, or other subdivision of an Act or resolution that, if it were a separate Act, would be an Act described in subparagraph (A); and (ii) a resolution or Act, or a title, division, or other subdivision of a resolution or Act, making continuing appropriations for a fiscal year. (b) Rescission For fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, effective on the day after the date on which appropriations are made available through September 30 of the applicable fiscal year for the entire Federal Government, there is rescinded, on a pro rata basis, the excess growth percent of the nonsecurity discretionary appropriations made available for such fiscal year.