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Implementing Decreases in Overall Government Expenditures Act or the Implementing DOGE Act
This bill requires rescissions of certain nonsecurity (i.e., nondefense) discretionary appropriations.
Beginning in FY2026, the bill requires annual rescissions on a pro rata basis that are equal to the excess growth percent of the nonsecurity discretionary appropriations made available for the fiscal year. Under the bill, the excess growth percent is the percentage in excess of 1% that the total annual appropriations exceeded the previous fiscal year’s annual appropriations.
The rescissions required by the bill are 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.
People & committees
Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24] · R–NY
Legislative record
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Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-01-03 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This bill would cancel a portion of certain annual federal funding outside the legally defined security category. The cancellation rate would be the amount by which total annual appropriations—the funding Congress provides—grew beyond 1% over the previous fiscal year. Cuts would apply proportionately to covered funding, starting in fiscal year 2026 and continuing in later years. These are proposed changes; the supplied evidence does not establish enactment.
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.
The term nonsecurity discretionary appropriations means discretionary appropriations provided in a regular appropriation Act that are not included in the security category.
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are made available through September 30 of the applicable fiscal year for the entire Federal Government, there is rescinded, on a pro rata basis, the excess growth percent of the nonsecurity discretionary appropriations made available for such fiscal year.
Section 1 would name the legislation the Implementing Decreases in Overall Government Expenditures Act, or Implementing DOGE Act.
This Act may be cited as the Implementing Decreases in Overall Government Expenditures Act or the Implementing DOGE Act.
Section 2 would apply the cancellations to nonsecurity discretionary appropriations: funding provided through covered annual appropriations laws that falls outside the security category. It incorporates existing statutory definitions of budget authority, discretionary appropriations and the security category, without reproducing those definitions.
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).
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)).
The term nonsecurity discretionary appropriations means discretionary appropriations provided in a regular appropriation Act that are not included in the security category.
Covered appropriations measures would include annual funding laws for programs, projects and activities under a House Appropriations subcommittee's jurisdiction. They would also include qualifying portions of larger laws and continuing appropriations measures, which continue funding for a fiscal year.
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
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.
The cancellation rate would use growth in total annual appropriations above 1% compared with the previous fiscal year. That rate would then be applied proportionately to nonsecurity discretionary appropriations. Thus, the measure used to calculate the rate and the funding subject to cancellation are described differently in the bill.
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.
there is rescinded, on a pro rata basis, the excess growth percent of the nonsecurity discretionary appropriations made available for such fiscal year.
The cancellation would be mandatory under the proposed text. It would take effect the day after appropriations become available for the entire federal government through September 30 of the applicable fiscal year.
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.
The annual cancellation requirement would begin with fiscal year 2026 and continue each fiscal year thereafter, with no stated final year.
For fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter
The supplied actions snapshot, updated April 21, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Appropriations on January 3, 2025. It does not establish what happened after those recorded actions.
Source snapshot updated 2026-04-21T15:52:43Z. 2025-01-03: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. 2025-01-03: Introduced in House
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Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
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Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
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