A Democratic amendment with no cosponsors
Changes S.Con.Res. 7 — An original concurrent resolution setting forth 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
Mr. Coons submitted SA 175, which is an amendment about making sure our military stays ready for action.
The purpose of this amendment is to create a deficit-neutral reserve fund. This fund is meant to make sure that when members of the United States Armed Forces are deployed to help with Department of Homeland Security immigration operations, it does not hurt our military readiness.
To make this happen, the amendment aims to allow the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate to change certain budget allocations and levels. This can happen for legislation that ensures these deployments do not cause specific problems.
- Do not require the cancellation or rescheduling of training exercises
- Do not divert military personnel from operations supporting state wildfire suppression efforts
- Do not divert funds appropriated by Congress for the Department of Defense for other agencies' operations
All of this is allowed as long as the legislation does not increase the deficit over the total of fiscal years 2025 through 2034.
- 2/20/2025
- Senate amendment submitted
This bill has no cosponsors