Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
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This bill would revive and expand the President's authority to submit expedited plans to reorganize or eliminate federal agencies.
What it does
This bill would reauthorize through 2026 a process for expedited congressional consideration of presidential plans to reorganize the executive branch. It proposes to expand the allowed goals of these plans to include reducing the federal workforce, eliminating burdensome regulations, and ending operations that do not serve the public interest. Additionally, the bill would remove existing restrictions on creating, abolishing, or consolidating executive departments, while adding a new prohibition against any plan that results in a net increase of federal employees or spending.
Who is affected
This bill directly affects the President and Congress by reviving and modifying the expedited process for submitting and considering executive branch reorganization plans. Federal agencies, including executive departments and independent regulatory agencies, are affected as they may be abolished, renamed, consolidated, or transferred under such plans. Additionally, the federal workforce is impacted by provisions aimed at reducing the number of employees and prohibiting any net increase in the total number of federal workers.
Key provisions
- Reauthorization of expedited reorganization authority. The bill revives and extends through 2026 a previously expired authority that requires Congress to use expedited procedures when considering executive branch reorganization plans submitted by the President.
- Expansion of permissible reorganization purposes. The legislation allows reorganization plans to be undertaken for new purposes, including reducing the federal workforce, eliminating burdensome regulations, and removing government operations that do not serve the public interest.
- Removal of existing prohibitions on plan contents. The bill eliminates current restrictions that prevent reorganization plans from creating, renaming, abolishing, transferring, or consolidating executive departments and independent regulatory agencies.
- New limitation on federal growth. A new prohibition is established to ensure that any proposed reorganization plan does not result in a net increase of federal employees or government expenditures.
Fiscal impact
- H.R. 1295, Reorganizing Government Act of 2025· As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 25, 2025
Effective dates
The bill reauthorizes the authority for expedited congressional consideration of executive branch reorganization plans through 2026.
Relationship to existing law
The bill revives and reauthorizes through 2026 a currently expired authority that provides for expedited congressional consideration of executive branch reorganization plans submitted by the President. It also modifies existing law by expanding the permissible purposes for these plans and removing several previous prohibitions regarding the creation, consolidation, or abolition of executive departments and independent regulatory agencies.
Stated purpose
The bill aims to modernize the executive branch by reviving and expanding the President's authority to submit reorganization plans for expedited congressional consideration. Its intended goals include reducing the federal workforce, eliminating burdensome regulations, and removing government operations that do not serve the public interest while ensuring no net increase in federal expenditures.