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Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
To amend chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, to reauthorize the executive reorganization authority of the President and to ensure efficient executive reorganization, and for other purposes.
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Summary
Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
This bill revives expedited congressional consideration of certain Presidential plans to reorganize the executive branch, expands permissible plan purposes, and changes the prohibitions on plan content.
The bill reauthorizes through 2026 a currently expired authority that requires expedited congressional consideration of certain executive branch reorganization plans submitted by the President.
The bill also expands the purposes for which such reorganization plans may be undertaken, to include
- reducing the number of federal employees;
- eliminating unnecessary and burdensome rules, regulations, and other requirements; and
- eliminating government operations that do not serve the public interest.
The bill removes the following prohibitions on the contents of such plans:
- creating new executive departments or renaming existing executive departments;
- abolishing or transferring executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions; and
- consolidating executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions.
The bill also adds a new prohibition on content, specifying that any such plan may not create a net increase in federal workers or expenditures.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Jan 27, 2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 397.
- Jan 27, 2026 Committee on Rules discharged.
- Jan 27, 2026 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 119-464, Part I.
- Mar 25, 2025 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 20.
- Mar 25, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Feb 13, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Feb 13, 2025 Introduced in House
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