Sponsor
Cory Mills
Representative · R-FL
Representative · R-FL
The bill restructures/renames a nonpartisan budget office, which may alter internal responsibilities but carries risks of perceived politicization, reduced public trust, and legal or administrative confusion for agencies and state governments.
No clear benefits were identified in the provided section-level material.
Taxpayers: public confidence in impartial budget analysis may decline if a nonpartisan scorekeeping office is renamed or reorganized in a way that appears political.
State and local governments and federal agencies: legal and administrative uncertainty could arise if statutory references and dependencies on current CBO analyses are redirected to a renamed or reorganized entity.
Federal employees working at or with the CBO: staff could face organizational disruption, changed responsibilities, and confusion from altered reporting lines or restructuring.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Statutorily renames the Congressional Budget Office to the "China Budget Office" and treats existing references as referring to the new name.
Official title: To redesignate the Congressional Budget Office as the "China Budget Office".
Introduced January 15, 2026 by Cory Mills · Last progress January 15, 2026
Redesignates the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as the "China Budget Office" and directs that any reference to the Congressional Budget Office in existing statutes, regulations, rules, certificates, directives, instructions, or other official papers in force on the date of enactment be treated as referring to the China Budget Office. The bill contains no other substantive changes, funding provisions, or implementation details.