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Introduced September 12, 2025 by Harold Dallas Rogers
The bill increases congressional control and transparency over federal spending and narrows certain federal programs and partnerships—saving targeted taxpayer dollars and limiting perceived government overreach in some areas—while cutting or restricting funding, research, enforcement, and services that many states, scientists, immigrants, and vulnerable populations rely on.
Federal agencies and Congress get stronger budget transparency and advance notice of reprogrammings (15‑day notices and quarterly, account‑level reporting), increasing oversight of federal spending.
NOAA and related weather/satellite programs receive clearer life‑cycle cost estimates and authorities to accept non‑federal resources, helping sustain weather forecasting and environmental monitoring services.
DOJ and other agencies get stronger program oversight (mandatory IT project certifications, modest OIG transfer authority), which can reduce waste and improve delivery of large federal IT and grant programs.
State and local law enforcement, victim services, and grant recipients face immediate funding cuts because the bill rescinds significant DOJ accounts and bars use of prior appropriations for some programs.
Scientists, researchers, and workers in climate, clean‑energy, fisheries, and Antarctic programs risk lost funding and cancelled projects, disrupting research, jobs, and environmental monitoring/protections.
Immigrants (including those in removal proceedings) lose access to funded legal representation and are barred from reimbursement of litigation/administrative fees for unlawful entry, reducing access to counsel and remedies.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Combines FY2026 appropriations and oversight rules with broad prohibitions on DEI, certain climate and research programs, immigration legal services, select EEOC actions, marijuana rescheduling, and other policies.
Sets fiscal-year rules for Department of Commerce, Department of Justice, NOAA, and related agencies by specifying allowable uses of appropriated funds, transfer and reporting requirements, and limits on certain administrative expenses. It also attaches many policy restrictions that prohibit use of funds for programs and activities including broad bans on diversity/equity/inclusion work and certain trainings, limits on immigration-related legal services and Census apportionment practices, bans on rescheduling marijuana, and multiple restrictions affecting climate, research, and enforcement actions. Imposes procurement, reprogramming, and notice requirements for agency spending (15-day notices for many transfers/reprogrammings), places caps and certification requirements on large IT programs and capital asset transactions, and includes many cross-agency prohibitions that change what federal funds may be used for across justice, science, commerce, and conservation programs.