Sponsor
Cory Mills
Representative · R-FL
Renaming or restructuring the Congressional Budget Office risks legal/admin disruption for governments and agencies, erodes public trust in impartial budget analysis, and disrupts federal staff without clear benefits identified in the provided section.
No clear legislative benefits identified in the section(s) provided.
State governments and federal agencies that rely on CBO analyses could face legal and administrative uncertainty if statutory references are redirected to a renamed or reorganized entity, complicating budgeting, compliance, and intergovernmental coordination.
Taxpayers could lose confidence in impartial budget scoring if changes to the agency's name or structure politicize—or appear to politicize—what has been a nonpartisan scorekeeping function.
Federal employees who work at or with the CBO may experience organizational disruption, confusion over new responsibilities and reporting lines, and short-term productivity loss during the transition.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Renames the Congressional Budget Office to the “China Budget Office” and treats all existing references as referring to that name.
Representative · R-FL
Renames the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to the “China Budget Office” and makes every existing statutory, regulatory, or official reference to the Congressional Budget Office read as a reference to the China Budget Office. The change is purely a renaming/terminology rewrite; it does not change funding levels, statutory authorities, or duties on its face.
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