The Trump Administration has requested that Congress adopt a new fiscal year 2027 budget resolution, which would permit it to enact key policy changes through the budget reconciliation process. Director of Fiscal Policy Jordan Haring reviews the recently introduced draft resolution to address the administration request.

Key points:

• House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) has released a fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget resolution intended to serve as the pathway for budget reconciliation legislation to enact some of President Trump’s policy agenda.
• The budget would address the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and servicemember pay, farm aid, and state efforts to implement voter ID requirements in elections; it includes reconciliation instructions to four House committees to increase budget deficits by no more than a combined $95 billion over the FY 2027–2036 budget window.
• The budget does not instruct any committees to craft reconciliation measures to reduce budget deficits, nor does it prescribe what specific policy changes the committees should include in their measures.

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