Sponsor
Keith Self
Representative · R-TX
The bill trades stronger, clearer Super PAYGO accounting and tighter deficit discipline (with more reporting and enforcement) for reduced congressional flexibility, new procedural hurdles, greater administrative burden, and a real risk that needed spending, benefits, or emergency responses will be delayed, reduced, or made harder to pass.
All Americans — taxpayers, lawmakers, and watchdogs — get much clearer, faster, and more enforceable budget information because CBO and OMB must produce itemized Super PAYGO scorecards, committee reports must disclose PAYGO compliance, and OMB must publish annual PAYGO reports shortly after year‑end.
Taxpayers and future generations: stronger fiscal discipline and slower long‑term deficit growth because new direct spending or revenue reductions must be offset (often with a doubled offset requirement) and measures failing Super PAYGO require a supermajority to proceed.
Taxpayers and state/local governments: emergency spending is constrained — emergency designations must be narrowly justified, expire within 24 months, and (in many cases) receive a higher congressional threshold and public OMB justification — reducing the risk of open‑ended emergency carve-outs that raise deficits.
Low‑income individuals, middle‑class families, and program beneficiaries: new spending increases or tax cuts will be much harder to enact because offsets are required (often doubled), likely delaying, shrinking, or blocking expansions and potentially causing benefit reductions or higher taxes.
People facing disasters, public‑health crises, or time‑sensitive threats: tighter emergency definitions, 24‑month sunsets, separate designations for each provision, and higher voting thresholds can slow or complicate rapid federal responses and the delivery of urgent aid.
Lawmakers, beneficiaries, and state/local implementers: new procedural hurdles (standalone bills for waivers/exclusions, supermajority requirements) increase legislative complexity, require more votes and separate bills, and can be used to block or delay needed multi‑part packages.
Based on analysis of 11 sections of legislative text.
Creates a stricter "Super PAYGO" rule requiring savings equal to at least two times any new direct spending or revenue loss and adds enforceable reporting, scorecards, points of order, and limits on waivers.
Representative · R-TX
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, stricter "Super PAYGO" budget rules: CBO must report detailed budget impacts for any bill that affects direct spending or revenues and committees must state whether proposals meet the new Super PAYGO test. The law raises the offset requirement so total savings must equal or exceed two times the total budgetary cost and creates enforceable scorecards, reporting, points-of-order, and limits on emergency designations and waivers. Establishes tighter procedural barriers to prevent offset waivers or scorecard exclusions except by supermajority and increases transparency by mandating OMB annual public reports and CBO/committee disclosures. Applies only to laws enacted on or after the Act takes effect.