No Budget, No Pay Act

Withholds Members’ salaries if their chamber misses the April 15 deadline to adopt a budget resolution. Starting April 16, that chamber’s payroll administrator must place Members’ pay into escrow and delay payment.

Pay is released once that chamber adopts a budget resolution or, if it never does, on the last day of the Congress. Total pay is not reduced—only delayed. The Secretary of the Treasury must assist payroll administrators in carrying out these rules.