Emergency Border Control Resolution

Full Title:
Emergency Border Control Resolution

Summary#

This concurrent resolution, titled the Emergency Border Control Resolution, sets recommended federal budget numbers for fiscal year 2025 and for fiscal years 2026 through 2034. It lists target amounts for revenues, new budget authority, outlays, deficits, and debt. The resolution also gives instructions to House committees to submit reconciliation changes (some that may increase deficits for 2025–2028 and others that must reduce deficits through 2034). It directs the Ways and Means Committee to submit a change to increase the statutory debt limit by $4,000,000,000,000. The resolution includes a policy statement saying the country faces a fiscal crisis and that the House should aim to restore pre-COVID spending levels adjusted to protect Social Security and Medicare, with an objective of total outlays of $6.057 trillion for the year.

What it means for you#

  • The resolution sets budget targets and deadlines for House committees to propose changes. Not later than February 27, 2025, named committees must send recommendations to the House Budget Committee.
  • It names specific committees (Armed Services, Homeland Security, Judiciary, Agriculture, Education and Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means) and specifies amounts those committees should aim to increase or reduce the deficit over stated periods.
  • It calls for a $4 trillion increase in the statutory debt limit to be proposed by the Ways and Means Committee.
  • The text expresses a goal to lower overall federal outlays toward a stated target of $6.057 trillion for the year.

Expenses#

  • Fiscal year 2025 recommended federal revenues: $3,859,000,000,000.
  • Fiscal year 2025 recommended new budget authority: $5,524,029,000,000.
  • Fiscal year 2025 recommended total outlays: $5,499,209,000,000.
  • Fiscal year 2025 on-budget deficit: $1,640,075,000,000.
  • Fiscal year 2025 debt subject to limit: $37,105,075,000,000.
  • Fiscal year 2025 debt held by the public: $29,999,075,000,000.
  • The resolution lists detailed new budget authority and outlay targets by major functional category (for example, National Defense: $888,044,000,000 new budget authority and $883,821,000,000 outlays for 2025).

Proponents' View#

The resolution's text says supporters view the nation as facing a "dire fiscal crisis," point to rising federal debt and high outlays since the pandemic, and call for restoring federal spending to pre-COVID levels (while protecting Social Security and Medicare and reflecting debt service obligations). The resolution sets an explicit House objective of $6.057 trillion in total budget outlays for the year.

Opponents' View#

No publicly available information.