Sponsor
Keith Self
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
The bill sharply increases transparency and enforces tougher PAYGO rules to reduce deficits and limit emergency carve-outs, but it does so at the cost of greater procedural hurdles, administrative burden, potential politicization, and reduced flexibility that may delay or curtail spending and emergency responses.
Taxpayers, watchdogs, and lawmakers get faster, clearer, and more detailed information about how proposals and enacted laws affect deficits because CBO and OMB must publish enhanced scorecards, itemized estimates, and an annual PAYGO report within short deadlines.
Taxpayers and future generations face slower growth in federal debt because the bill enforces stricter PAYGO discipline (including doubled offsets for new costs and barring measures that fail 'Super PAYGO' absent a supermajority), making deficit-increasing measures harder to enact.
Taxpayers and state/local budget managers benefit from tighter limits on open-ended emergency designations (narrower definitions, 24-month sunsets, higher voting thresholds, and required OMB justifications), reducing the potential for long-running off-budget emergency spending.
Low-income people and middle-class families could face reduced, delayed, or curtailed benefits and services because the bill's doubled-offset and Super PAYGO rules make it harder to pass new spending or tax relief without deep offsets or cuts elsewhere.
People in disasters, public-health crises, or needing time-sensitive national-security aid could face slower federal responses because narrower emergency criteria, 24-month sunsets, and higher vote thresholds make quick, comprehensive emergency funding harder to deploy.
OMB and CBO staff and the public may see slower or costlier budget processes because the bill creates substantial new reporting and scorekeeping requirements that increase agency workload and administrative costs.
Based on analysis of 11 sections of legislative text.
Creates a "Super PAYGO" rule requiring savings at least twice the budgetary cost of new direct spending or revenue reductions, adds strict emergency and waiver rules, and new CBO/OMB reporting.
Official title: To amend the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 to strengthen and enhance budgetary savings by providing for super PAYGO reductions, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 22, 2026 by Keith Self · Last progress July 22, 2026
Requires new "Super PAYGO" budget scoring and procedural rules so any bill that increases direct spending or reduces revenues must be offset by at least twice the total budgetary cost in identified savings. It creates new reporting and public disclosure duties for CBO and OMB, tightens emergency-designation rules, establishes congressional points of order that block consideration of measures that fail the Super PAYGO test, and makes waiver or repeal require supermajority votes. Changes also rewrite the stated purposes of the 2010 Statutory PAYGO law to emphasize deficit reduction and long-term fiscal sustainability, replace ordinary PAYGO scorecards with Super PAYGO scorecards, require annual public OMB reports, and bar routine inclusion of PAYGO waivers or exclusions in omnibus or other legislative vehicles without explicit, stand-alone consideration and supermajority approval.