This bill changes some budget rules and adds payment rules for certain officials.
It removes the line in budget rules that adjusts the baseline for inflation or other factors. It also says that if a House of Congress has not agreed to a concurrent budget resolution for fiscal year 2026 by April 15, 2025, the payroll administrator for that House must put Members' compensation payments into an escrow account starting April 16, 2025. Those payments stay in escrow until the House agrees to a budget resolution or until the end of the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress. The payroll administrator must still handle normal tax withholdings and must release any remaining escrowed amounts on the last day of the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress to comply with the Twenty-Seventh Amendment. The Secretary of the Treasury must help the payroll administrators.
The bill also requires the Inspector General of the Office of Personnel Management to check, within three days after the President's budget is due, whether the Director of OMB and the President met the statutory requirement to submit the President's budget. The Inspector General must notify key budget and appropriations committee chairs of the result. If the Inspector General finds noncompliance, the Director of OMB and two deputy directors cannot be paid for the period of noncompliance, and they may not receive pay later for that period. Those two sections take effect when the bill is enacted.
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