Stop the Baseline Bloat Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6]
Introduced
Summary
Exclude emergency and supplemental appropriations from the CBO discretionary baseline. This bill would amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 so the Congressional Budget Office no longer counts resources labeled as emergency requirements or provided in supplemental appropriation laws in the current‑year baseline for discretionary appropriations.
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- Members of Congress and appropriators: Baseline projections for discretionary spending would no longer include emergency-designated or supplemental funding in the current-year baseline. That changes the reference point used when proposing or comparing future discretionary funding.
- Congressional Budget Office analysts: CBO would remove those categories from its current-year baseline calculations. Cost estimates and baseline reports would reflect a narrower measure of regular discretionary resources.
- Budget analysts and the public: Year-to-year comparisons of discretionary baseline totals would separate regular funding from emergency and supplemental resources, altering how policymakers and observers read baseline trends.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Budget forecasts would ignore emergency add-ons
If enacted, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) would stop counting emergency-designated funds and supplemental spending in the current-year discretionary baseline. The baseline is CBO’s forecast of expected yearly spending that Congress uses. This would change how budget totals look, but it would not itself spend or cut money. It could affect later choices on program funding and deficits. The change would take effect upon enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6]
WI • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1]
HI • D
Sponsored 6/11/2025
Rep. Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA-3]
WA • D
Sponsored 6/11/2025
Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2]
ME • D
Sponsored 6/11/2025
Gray
CA • D
Sponsored 6/11/2025
Stutzman
IN • R
Sponsored 6/11/2025
Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
VA • R
Sponsored 6/11/2025
Norman
SC • R
Sponsored 6/11/2025
Estes
KS • R
Sponsored 6/27/2025
Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]
VA • D
Sponsored 9/15/2025
Roll Call Votes
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