A Democratic amendment with no cosponsors
Changes H.Con.Res. 14 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.
Offered
Offered, and not voted on yet. Most amendments never get a vote: the Senate takes up the bill and moves on without them.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- Pending Consideration
What this amendment would do
This amendment would add a deficit-neutral reserve fund to the concurrent resolution.
- The amendment allows the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate to change budget allocations or adjust the pay-as-you-go ledger, which is a record used to track how new laws affect the deficit.
- These changes would apply to legislation, motions, or conference reports, meaning a final agreement reached by both the House and Senate, relating to the Federal workforce.
- The adjustment is intended to cover costs for preventing the indiscriminate termination of specific employees at the Department of Health and Human Services.
- These employees include scientists, emergency preparedness staff, frontline health care workers, and drug and medical device reviewers.
- The amendment specifies that any such legislation must not increase the deficit over the period of fiscal years 2025 through 2034.
- 4/3/2025
- Senate amendment submitted
This bill has no cosponsors