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The bill improves transparency and congressional oversight for very large executive and judicial budget actions, but it risks producing inaccurate baselines, adds agency reporting burden, and can miss many smaller cumulative fiscal effects.
Taxpayers, lawmakers, and budget overseers will get clearer federal budget baselines that incorporate estimated effects of major judicial and executive actions, improving transparency and aiding fiscal planning.
Lawmakers and state governments will receive a dedicated CBO table listing executive and judicial actions with estimated budget effects ≥ $50 billion, giving timely, consolidated information for oversight and appropriation decisions.
Taxpayers, state governments, and appropriators could face skewed budget baselines and misaligned appropriation planning if CBO is required to count proposed executive actions as final even when those actions never occur.
Federal employees and agencies will face increased administrative burdens and compliance costs because they must assemble and deliver detailed implementation documents within a 10‑day window.
Taxpayers may still see material fiscal effects go unreported because the $50 billion reporting threshold excludes many smaller actions whose cumulative impact could be significant.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs CBO to include budget effects of judicial/executive actions in baselines and requires agencies to provide implementation documentation within 10 days; adds a $50B ten‑year reporting table.
Official title: To include certain executive and judicial actions in the baseline calculation by the Congressional Budget Office, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 10, 2025 by Ron Estes · Last progress December 10, 2025
Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include the estimated budget effects of judicial and executive actions in its baseline reports and updates, and to publish a separate high‑threshold table listing actions with estimated budget effects of $50 billion or more over ten years. It also requires federal agencies that issue or implement those actions to provide specified implementation documentation and other information to the CBO within 10 days after the action takes effect. The change expands what CBO must consider when preparing baseline budget projections, creates new agency reporting obligations, treats proposed executive actions as final for inclusion under certain conditions, and directs that CBO follow scorekeeping practices agreed with the House and Senate Budget Committee chairs unless those chairs instruct otherwise.