Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Feb 13, 2025)
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.
What just happenedJan 27, 2026
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 397.
Who’s behind it
- Reported in HouseJan 27, 2026
- Introduced in HouseFeb 13, 2025
- Jan 27, 2026CalendarsH12410
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 397.
- Jan 27, 2026DischargeH12300
Committee on Rules discharged.
Rules Committee - Jan 27, 2026Committee5500
Committee on Rules discharged.
Rules Committee - Jan 27, 2026CommitteeH12200
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 119-464, Part I.
Oversight and Government Reform Committee - Jan 27, 2026Committee5000
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 119-464, Part I.
Oversight and Government Reform Committee - Mar 25, 2025Committee
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 20.
Oversight and Government Reform Committee - Mar 25, 2025Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Oversight and Government Reform Committee - Feb 13, 2025IntroReferralH11100
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.
Rules Committee - Feb 13, 2025IntroReferralH11100
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.
Oversight and Government Reform Committee - Feb 13, 2025IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Feb 13, 2025IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House