Rep. Tenney Introduces Implementing DOGE Act to Mandate Automatic Cuts to Federal Spending
This bill is currently sitting in the House Committee on Appropriations where it has been since January 2025. No action has been taken on this proposal for 18 months, which means it is stalled. The House committee must choose to review the bill before it can move any further.
This bill faces a tough path because automatic spending cuts are often unpopular with lawmakers who want to control specific program budgets. It also lacks support from the other political party.
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Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 10413 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 10413 (118th) →Scores run from -100 (strongly harmful) to +100 (strongly beneficial) for each group, combining impact, certainty, scope, and duration ratings of 1-5. How impact scoring works
Bureau of Indian Affairs funding and other federal programs serving tribal communities are largely non-security discretionary spending. These communities are especially dependent on federal services for healthcare, education, and infrastructure, so automatic across-the-board cuts would disproportionately affect tribal members who rely on these programs.
Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Introduced in House
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The Implementing DOGE Act (H.R. 199) would limit increases in non-security discretionary appropriations by requiring all increases in non-security appropriations above one percent to be rescinded on a prorated basis.
GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Claudia Tenney introduced the DOGE Acts to cut spending and reform the federal bureaucracy. The bills would slowly cut government spending beginning in fiscal year 2026, exempting the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs.
H.R. 199, the 'Implementing DOGE Act,' sponsored by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), aims to provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity discretionary spending. The bill is part of a broader effort to cut $2 trillion in wasteful spending identified by the DOGE commission.
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Congressional Bill
Official Title
Implementing DOGE Act
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