GOP bill takes aim at Congress' 'no rules apply' emergency spending

FIRST ON FOX: A House fiscal hawk wants to make a outgo program for legislature exigency spending to make accountability for the "no rules apply" backing stream.

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., is acceptable to present the Emergency Spending Accountability Act that would adhd guardrails to last-minute backing meant for nationalist emergencies, similar earthy disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic oregon different spending meant to capable the gaps successful the appropriations process.

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Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., is acceptable to present the Emergency Spending Accountability Act. (Fox News Digital)

Stutzman told Fox News Digital that lawmakers volition spell astir the accustomed budgeting process, passing stopgap spending bills oregon colossal, omnibus spending packages, but that "somewhere successful between" there’s ever other wealth pushed retired the doorway for emergencies.

"Whenever there's an emergency, Congress ever overreacts," helium said. "And I judge they walk these large spending bills nether the guise of an emergency, nationalist emergency, and spend money that we don't instrumentality into information done our fund process."

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Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind. (Getty Images)

He said that erstwhile helium archetypal came to Washington successful 2010, the nationalist indebtedness was $9 trillion. After leaving the House and returning during past year’s predetermination cycle, that fig has since ballooned to much than $36 trillion.

And since the aboriginal 1990s, much than $12 trillion successful exigency spending has added to the ever-growing deficit. The lawmaker said that the wealth dedicated for exigency usage was seldom ever paid back, and helium argued that the payer dollars were sometimes not utilized for existent emergencies.

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Stutzman’s legislation, which truthful acold has 7 House Republican co-sponsors, would necessitate the national authorities to wage disconnected the equilibrium of aboriginal exigency spending by 20% each twelvemonth for 5 years aft an exigency pursuing a green-light from lawmakers to unfastened up the currency flow.

His measure would besides stipulate that immoderate exigency spending would person to comport with the criteria laid retired by the Balance Budget and Emergency Control Act of 1985, which laid retired a five-point roadmap to warrant that exigency spending beryllium necessary, sudden, urgent, unforeseen and not permanent.

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He understood that determination is ever a request for exigency spending, giving the examples of the pandemic and of Hurricane Sandy, which blasted done the East Coast much than a decennary ago, but helium noted determination should beryllium offset cuts to relationship for the spending and amended readying connected however the payer dollars would beryllium used.

"Most companies and household budgets, they ever person a rainy-day money oregon an exigency money that they tin pat into if they request it for unexpected costs and expenses, but that's not the mode Washington works," Stutzman said. "So that's the idea."