Washington D.C. (February 26, 2025) | Rep. Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) issued the following statement after voting for the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Resolution (H. Con. Res 14). This budget blueprint allows the House to pass one comprehensive bill to deliver on President Trump’s and Congress’s America-First Agenda.
“Our bloated federal spending is catapulting this nation towards bankruptcy and steering crucial programs towards insolvency. We must change this trajectory now. On November 5, last year, seventy-seven million Americans gave President Trump and Congress a mandate to bring common sense back to our government, cut wasteful spending, strengthen the economy, secure our borders, and significantly reduce government intrusion into our lives and pocketbooks.
“Yesterday, House Republicans passed a bold budget initiative that brings back fiscal sanity, cuts wasteful spending, and prioritizes our national security, individual freedom and economic opportunity. Adopting this budget as the blueprint for government reform will allow the House and Senate to root out waste, fraud, and abuse within our bloated federal agencies, cut taxes for hardworking American families, unleash American energy production, secure our borders, and strengthen our national security. The budget is the first step in restructuring the federal government; and it sets the framework for House committees to find ways to cut wasteful spending and save taxpayers’ dollars through efficiency and modernization. I urge the Senate to quickly pass a budget reconciliation package and we can make good on the promises we made to the American people.”
FY25 Budget Resolution Summary:
- RECONCILIATION INSTRUCTIONS
- Requires at least $1.5 trillion in mandatory savings over 10 years. Reconciliation instructions by committee include:
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- Energy and Commerce: Reduce the deficit by at least $880 billion.
- Education and Workforce: Reduce the deficit by at least $330 billion.
- Agriculture: Reduce the deficit by at least $230 billion.
- Oversight and Government Reform: Reduce the deficit by at least $50 billion.
- Transportation and Infrastructure: Reduce the deficit by at least $10 billion.
- Natural Resources: Reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion.
- Financial Services: Reduce the deficit by at least $1 billion.
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- The reconciliation instructions also allow for spending on tax reform, border security and defense, providing up to $300 billion to secure the border and strengthen our national security.Reconciliation instructions by committee include:
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- Armed Services: Up to $100 billion for national defense.
- Homeland Security: Up to $90 billion for border security.
- Judiciary Committee: Up to $110 billion for border security.
- Ways and Means: Provides $4.5 trillion to prevent tax hikes and deliver on President Trump’s tax priorities for the American people.
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- REIGNITING GROWTH AND PROSPERITY
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- Grows the economy by $2.6 trillion over 10 years from 2.6 percent average growth compared to the Congressional Budget Office estimate of 1.8 percent growth by:
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- Locking in tax cuts, unlocking opportunities, and restoring the American Dream.
- Rolling back burdensome regulations from the Biden era and passing the REINS Act.
- Restoring the dignity of work and unleashing American energy dominance.
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- Grows the economy by $2.6 trillion over 10 years from 2.6 percent average growth compared to the Congressional Budget Office estimate of 1.8 percent growth by:
Click here to read the full text of the FY25 Budget Resolution.
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