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119-hr-6023119th CongressWALLET

Government Shutdown Efficiency Act

Sponsored By: Representative Burlison, Eric [R-MO-7]

Introduced

Summary

Gives the President temporary authority to sell federal real property during a lapse in appropriations. The bill would let the government convert real estate into cash when funding lapses and use sales to cover pay and expenses for employees who keep working during the shutdown.

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  • Federal employees who are exempt from furlough could be paid from sale proceeds while they perform sale-related work, but those employees would not be eligible for back pay under 31 U.S.C. 1341(c).
  • The authority would include members of the Armed Forces in active service as covered personnel and would treat their sale-related duties as emergency work for certain legal purposes.
  • Sales could not transfer property to specified foreign adversaries named in the bill: North Korea, China, Russia, or Iran, or entities substantially controlled by them.
  • The law would exclude trust lands held for Indian Tribes and any real property located within those trust lands from sale.

*Proceeds from sales must be deposited in the Treasury’s general fund for deficit reduction, and may be used to purchase Greenland.*

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Shutdown pay for excepted workers via property sales

If enacted, the President could sell federal buildings or land during a full or partial government shutdown. Money from sales could be used to pay salary and expenses for excepted federal workers, including active-duty military, while the shutdown lasts. Work on these sales would count as emergency work during the lapse. Anyone paid under this authority would not also get back pay for those same amounts. Tribal trust lands could not be sold, and sales to North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, or their controlled entities would be banned. Money received after the shutdown ends would go to the Treasury to reduce the deficit. Sale proceeds could also be used to buy Greenland.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Burlison, Eric [R-MO-7]

MO • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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