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Official title: To strengthen and enhance the congressional power of the purse, and for other purposes.
Introduced September 9, 2025 by Brendan Francis Boyle · Last progress September 9, 2025
The bill trades greater fiscal and emergency-era transparency, oversight, and deterrence of improper impoundment for increased administrative costs, legal exposure, reduced executive flexibility, and heightened risks to sensitive national-security and deliberative information.
Taxpayers and Congress get substantially better visibility into federal spending and withheld/expired balances because the bill requires more frequent, detailed reporting and expands GAO oversight and access (including reporting on impoundments, unused/expired/cancelled balances, and emergency expenditures).
State and local governments, program beneficiaries, and taxpayers benefit from faster availability of appropriated funds because agencies must make appropriated funds available in time for prudent obligation, reducing delays in spending for programs and services.
During declared national emergencies, Congress and relevant committees gain stronger oversight because the bill requires six-month status/expenditure reports, access to presidential emergency action documents, and clearer renewal/reporting procedures, improving legislative review of emergency spending and actions.
Federal national security operations and personnel may be put at greater risk because increased reporting and committee access during declared emergencies could expose classified methods, sensitive operational details, or contingency plans if disclosures are mishandled.
Executives and agencies will have less flexibility to delay, reallocate, or discreetly manage funds, which could hinder the administration’s ability to respond quickly to evolving priorities or urgent needs.
Agencies will face substantial additional administrative and compliance burdens—more reporting, reviews, redactions, and potential litigation—which will consume staff time, raise costs, and could divert resources from program delivery.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Tightens limits on executive withholding of appropriations, increases agency and presidential budget reporting, and creates cancellation rules for certain indefinite appropriation accounts while expanding emergency reporting to Congress.
Restricts the executive branch's ability to withhold, defer, or condition the obligation of appropriated funds, requires new agency and presidential budget reporting on unobligated/expired/cancelled balances, and creates an authority to cancel certain indefinite appropriation accounts. It also strengthens congressional oversight of emergencies by requiring detailed written reports to Congress when the President declares, renews, or specifies national emergency authorities, and temporarily suspends specified expedited congressional procedures related to rescissions until January 20, 2029. The bill changes budget execution law (Impoundment Control and apportionment rules), adds multi-year reporting requirements to the President's annual budget for FY2027–FY2031, establishes a new cancellation mechanism for some indefinitely available appropriations, and inserts expanded reporting duties tied to National Emergencies Act declarations and executive orders that invoke emergency statutory authorities.