Sponsor
Aaron Bean
Representative · R-FL
Representative · R-FL
The bill trims congressional office budgets for two years to produce modest federal spending savings, at the likely cost of reduced constituent services and increased strain on remaining congressional staff.
All taxpayers: House members' office budgets are reduced by $100,000 per congressional district for FY2026–FY2027, lowering federal spending on congressional office operations.
Constituents and congressional staff: Reduced Member Representational Allowances (MRA) will likely cut constituent services, communications, and district operations and increase workload for remaining staff during FY2026–FY2027.
Taxpayers: The total savings from the temporary $100,000-per-district cut are modest relative to overall federal spending and are unlikely to materially reduce the federal deficit.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Reduces each House Member’s Representational Allowance for FY2026 and FY2027 to their FY2025 level minus $100,000.
Official title: To establish the Members' Representational Allowance for each Member of the House of Representatives for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 as the amount of the Allowance for fiscal year 2025, reduced by $100,000.
Introduced March 3, 2025 by Aaron Bean · Last progress March 3, 2025
Reduces the office budget for every House Member for two years by setting each Member’s Representational Allowance (MRA) for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 equal to their FY2025 MRA minus $100,000. The change is a flat, per-member reduction tied to each district’s FY2025 MRA and applies only for those two fiscal years.