Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
Latest action · Jan 27, 2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 397.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 13, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
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.
Cosponsors 19
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 13, 2025 to Apr 24, 2025; 15 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AZ | Andy Biggs | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-FL | Anna Paulina Luna | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-TX | Brandon Gill | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-GA | Brian Jack | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-FL | Byron Donalds | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-LA | Clay Higgins | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-AZ | Elijah Crane | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-MO | Eric Burlison | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-WI | Glenn Grothman | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-CO | Lauren Boebert | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-GA | Marjorie Taylor Greene | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-NY | Nicholas A. Langworthy | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-TX | Pat Fallon | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-TX | Pete Sessions | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-SC | William R. Timmons IV | Original | Feb 13, 2025 |
| R-TX | August Pfluger | Apr 24, 2025 | |
| R-VA | John J. McGuire III | Apr 24, 2025 | |
| R-SC | Nancy Mace | Apr 24, 2025 | |
| R-AZ | Paul A. Gosar | Apr 24, 2025 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Feb 13, 2025Markup Mar 25, 2025Reported Jan 27, 2026 |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Feb 13, 2025Discharged Jan 27, 2026 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 27, 2026Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 119-464, Part I.
- Jan 27, 2026Committee on Rules discharged.
- Jan 27, 2026Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 397.
- Mar 25, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Mar 25, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 20.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Apr 21, 2025H.R. 1295, Reorganizing Government Act of 2025As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 25, 2025
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 30, February 13, 2025, page H710.
CRS reports 2
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 2
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R48763 | Presidential Reorganization Authority: Potential Approaches for Congressional Consideration | Report | Dec 15, 2025 |
| R48523 | Organizing Executive Branch Agencies: Structure and Delegations of Authority | Report | May 2, 2025 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 583 | Reorganizing Government Act of 2025 | Related bill | Feb 13, 2025 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- 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.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 27, 2026Reported in House
- Feb 13, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
