S.Con.Res. 40
A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036.
Sponsor: Rand Paul · 0 cosponsors
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
This concurrent resolution establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2027 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2028-FY2036.
The resolution recommends levels and amounts for FY2027-FY2036 for
- federal revenues,
- new budget authority,
- budget outlays,
- deficits,
- public debt,
- debt held by the public, and
- the major functional categories of spending.
It also recommends levels and amounts for Social Security and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) discretionary administrative expenses for the purpose of budget enforcement in the Senate.
Finally, the resolution sets forth budget enforcement procedures that address issues such as
- adjustments to committee allocations and other budgetary levels;
- the budgetary treatment of discretionary administrative expenses for the Social Security Administration and the USPS;
- emergency spending requirements in the House; and
- additional adjustments in the House for disaster relief, wildfire suppression, health care fraud and abuse control, continuing disability reviews and redeterminations, and reemployment services and eligibility assessments.
Text of the bill
I Recommended levels and amounts
A Budgetary levels in both Houses
B Levels and amounts in the Senate
II Other matters
Congress adopts the provisions of this title—
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House or of that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent with such other rules; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either the Senate or the House of Representatives to change those rules (insofar as they relate to that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as is the case of any other rule of the Senate or House of Representatives.