# 119-hr-6023: Government Shutdown Efficiency Act

119-hr-6023, Government Shutdown Efficiency Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Burlison, Eric [R-MO-7] (R-MO); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-6023
- Congress: 119
- Title: Government Shutdown Efficiency Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-11-12
- Sponsor: Rep. Burlison, Eric [R-MO-7] (R-MO)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## 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. - 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.*

## Provisions PRIA read

- Shutdown pay for excepted workers via property sales: mixed, medium. 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…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-25: FairTax Act of 2025
- 119-hr-8324: Great American Healthcare Plan
- 119-hr-8206: Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026
- 119-hr-4123: FIT Procurement Act
- 119-hr-833: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025
- 119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-6023 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6023)

## Related
- [119-hr-25: FairTax Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-25)
- [119-hr-8324: Great American Healthcare Plan](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8324)
- [119-hr-8206: Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8206)
- [119-hr-4123: FIT Procurement Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4123)
- [119-hr-833: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-833)
- [119-hr-9298: Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9298)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6023 (as of 2026-04-21).