Congress Approves 10-Year Budget Plan Setting $4.6 Trillion Spending Limit for 2025
Legislative Progress
Impact Analysis
Key Points
- This policy acts as a giant blueprint for how the government will handle money over the next 10 years. For the year 2025, it sets a goal to collect about $3.8 trillion in taxes while spending roughly $4.6 trillion on government programs and services.
- The plan highlights where the biggest chunks of taxpayer money go. In 2025, the government expects to spend over $1 trillion just on interest for the national debt, about $951 billion on Medicare for seniors, and $933 billion on national defense.
- Because the government is spending more than it takes in, the plan expects a deficit of $783 billion in 2025. Over the next decade, the total national debt is projected to grow from $36 trillion to over $48 trillion by the year 2034.
- Congress is using a special 'fast-track' process to make changes to the law. Several committees have been told to find ways to either cut the deficit or adjust spending in areas like agriculture, education, and healthcare by March 7, 2025.
- The resolution includes specific goals to protect programs like Medicare and Medicaid for vulnerable people. It also encourages 'deregulation,' which means looking for ways to cut back on government rules that are considered too expensive or complicated for businesses and individuals.
- While this plan sets the overall targets, it doesn't actually hand out the money yet. Think of it as a household budget that decides how much can be spent on groceries and rent before the actual shopping trips happen later in the year.
Milestones
Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 48. Record Vote Number: 87. (text: CR S1119-1125)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 48. Record Vote Number: 87.
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1061-1063, S1075-1119)
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S1015-1019)
Measure laid before Senate by motion.
What Happens Next
Projected impacts based on AI analysis
Full reconciliation bill expected to move through Congress
The combined reconciliation package — with tax changes, spending cuts, and new immigration/defense spending — will be debated and voted on. This single bill will contain the actual law changes that affect people's benefits, taxes, and government services.
Tax and spending changes from reconciliation begin taking effect
Once the reconciliation bill is signed into law, changes to tax rates, program eligibility, benefit levels, and new enforcement spending will start rolling out. Some changes may be immediate while others phase in over months or years.
Vote Results
27 votesOn the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preventing reductions in funding and staffing necessary to respond to, control, and prevent avian flu.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting police, which may include initiatives that provide funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts.
On the Motion
To prevent tax cuts for the wealthy if a single dollar of Medicaid funding is cut.
On the Amendment
To strike the reconciliation instructions and create a reserve fund to implement a bipartisan, multi-year agreement to provide up to $171,000,000,000 in discretionary funding for defense and up to $171,000,000,000 in discretionary funding for other programs, accounts, and activities to address border, veterans, farmers, food and nutrition, disaster relief, and other needs.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to Congress continuing its work to rein in the administrative state by supporting legislation that prevents Federal agencies from finalizing major rules without congressional approval, strengthens the Article 1 law-making powers of Congress, cuts spending resulting from costly regulations, reduces inflation, and unleashes economic growth.
On the Motion
To create a point of order against legislation that would raise energy costs for Americans, including higher monthly electricity bills, building material expenses, and transportation costs.
On the Amendment
To strike reconciliation instructions requiring damaging cuts to programs critical to rural Americans and food assistance for American families.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting access to fertility services, and eliminating barriers for families in need of high-quality, affordable fertility services by expanding nationwide coverage for in vitro fertilization.
On the Amendment
To require an adequate amount of deficit reduction as part of reconciliation.
On the Motion to Proceed
On the Motion
To prevent unwarranted tax cuts for the ultra-rich.
On the Motion
To stop tax cuts for the ultra-rich while families struggle to put food on the table.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the impacts of hedge fund ownership of single-family homes and rent prices.
On the Motion
To create a point of order against any reconciliation bill that would not decrease the cost of housing for American families.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to reinstating the fired Federal employees at the Forest Service, National Park Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to supporting Federal wildland firefighters and associated personnel.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting Medicare and Medicaid.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting access to maternal and pediatric health care through Medicaid.
On the Motion
To prevent millions of Americans from being kicked off their health coverage, suffering needlessly, getting sicker, and dying sooner.
On the Motion
To create a point of order against legislation that would take away health care from seniors, including those receiving care in nursing homes, through cuts to the Medicaid program.
On the Motion
To create a point of order against legislation that would reduce Medicare and Medicaid benefits for Americans.
On the Amendment
To ensure continued United States support for the Government of Ukraine to stand firm against aggression by the Government of Russia in Europe.
On the Motion
To create a point of order against legislation that would cut funding from the school lunch or school breakfast programs.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preserving and extending vital tax credits enacted under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which make heath care accessible and affordable and that have led to the lowest uninsured rate in our Nation's history.
On the Amendment
To ensure full and uninterrupted funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care and benefits provided by the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-168), also known as the "PACT Act", preventing any cuts or delays.
On the Amendment
To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to ending price gouging on prescription drugs.
On the Concurrent Resolution
Source Information
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.
Sponsor
Data Sources
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