As lawmakers scramble to assemble the 12 appropriations bills providing money for federal agencies to spend on programs each year, one lawmaker is calling for major reforms to the process.
The Budget Reform Act of 2025, introduced Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., would change the appropriations schedule from annually to every two years and establish strict, penalty-carrying budget deadlines for Congress and the president.
Even though the federal funding process is supposed to follow a regular schedule with specific deadlines, the last time Congress completed the process on time was in 1997.
“With the U.S. national debt exceeding $36 trillion, it’s clear that the federal budgeting process is a dysfunctional mess. Congress continues to lurch from crisis to crisis without any long-term vision or accountability,” Marshall said in a statement. “Rather than continue to repeat the same missteps that have burdened us and our grandchildren with debt they can never repay, we need radical change.”
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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