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The bill increases budget transparency by forcing faster agency disclosure and by including executive and judicial actions in CBO baselines, improving lawmakers' and taxpayers' visibility into fiscal impacts — at the cost of added agency workload, potential chilling of regulatory actions, and a risk of politicizing scorekeeping.
Taxpayers and members of Congress will see a more complete fiscal picture because CBO will include estimated budget effects of executive and judicial actions in baseline reports.
Federal, state, and local governments (and CBO) will get faster, more transparent cost information because agencies must provide implementation documentation to CBO within 10 days.
Taxpayers and lawmakers will more easily identify major fiscal actions because any executive or judicial action with ≥ $50 billion projected cost over 10 years will be flagged in a separate CBO table.
Federal employees and agency offices will face added administrative burden and potential resource diversion due to the short 10‑day documentation deadline.
Federal agencies and rulemaking processes may be pressured or chilled because treating proposed executive actions as final for baseline inclusion could discourage experimentation or delay rulemaking.
Taxpayers' and lawmakers' trust in impartial scoring could be reduced because requiring CBO to score judicial and executive actions — potentially under differing chair directions — risks politicizing scorekeeping.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced December 10, 2025 by Ron Estes · Last progress December 10, 2025
Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include estimated budget effects of judicial and executive actions (rules, executive orders, memoranda, etc.) in its baseline reports and updates, and orders federal departments and agencies to provide CBO with implementation documentation within 10 days after such actions take effect. Actions that the CBO Director estimates will affect the budget by at least $50 billion over ten years must be listed separately in CBO reports; proposed executive actions are treated as final for the purpose of inclusion decisions. Changes are limited to reporting and scorekeeping procedures: no new funding or program authorizations are created. The measure sets a $50 billion ten-year inclusion threshold, requires timely agency submission of materials to CBO, and ties treatment of these items to existing scorekeeping rules agreed with budget committee chairs unless those chairs direct otherwise.