MAGA Act
Sponsored By: Representative Larson (CT)
Introduced
Summary
Automatic funding and payroll escrow rules for federal pay during shutdowns. This bill would let the Treasury fund most civil service and uniformed service pay during any lapse in discretionary appropriations while requiring payroll administrators to withhold and escrow pay for top officials until specified shutdown or term periods end.
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- Federal employees and uniformed service members would be covered by Treasury funding for salaries and expenses during shutdowns, with department heads and deputy secretaries explicitly excluded from that automatic funding.
- Members of Congress would have their daily pay for each 24-hour shutdown period withheld and placed in escrow, with those amounts released only when the bill’s specified period ends and escrowed funds returned at the end of the applicable Congress to comply with the 27th Amendment.
- The President and Vice President would have daily pay for shutdown days escrowed by the Office of Personnel Management, and certain senior Executive Office positions and noncareer Senior Executive Service and Schedule C policy roles would be barred from pay during shutdowns.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Pay protection for federal and military in shutdowns
If enacted, the government would keep paying civil service and uniformed service workers during any funding lapse that starts after this bill becomes law. The money would come from the Treasury as needed to cover salary and expenses. The bill would define a "Government shutdown" as a lapse in funding because Congress did not pass a regular bill or a continuing resolution.
No shutdown pay for top appointees
If enacted, department heads and deputy secretaries would be excluded from the bill’s automatic pay during a shutdown. Also, while a shutdown is in effect, money could not be used to pay certain senior Executive Office of the President officials, including Executive Schedule positions, noncareer SES appointees, and Schedule C policy or confidential staff.
President, VP, Congress pay withheld
If enacted, the pay of Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President would be withheld and placed in escrow for each 24-hour day a shutdown lasts. The amount held back would equal the daily pay rate times the number of shutdown days in the pay period. For Members, during the 119th Congress, funds would be released when the defined shutdown period ends, and any remaining money on the last day of that Congress; from the 120th Congress on, release would occur when the shutdown ends or on the last day of that Congress. For the President and Vice President, release would occur when the shutdown ends, with any remaining money paid on the last day of the term. Treasury would help congressional payroll offices carry out these rules.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Larson (CT)
CT • D
Cosponsors
Moulton
MA • D
Sponsored 10/21/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 10/21/2025
Thanedar
MI • D
Sponsored 10/21/2025
Titus
NV • D
Sponsored 10/24/2025
Costa
CA • D
Sponsored 10/24/2025
Walkinshaw
VA • D
Sponsored 10/24/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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