I want to highlight some of the top provisions included in our #budget reform bill, known as the Protecting Our Children's Future Act of 2018.
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(2) Subjects all appropriations bills to the reconciliation process, resulting in a 51 vote majority needed for passage in the Senate if bills comply with the budget.
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(3) Withholds pay for Members of Congress if Congress fails to pass a conferenced budget resolution on time. No Budget, No Pay! #BudgetReform
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(4) Repeals the Budget Control Act caps that have hurt military readiness and been used by Democrats as leverage for wasteful spending.
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(5) Shifts most mandatory spending to discretionary with the exceptions being Social Security Old Age and Survivors benefits, Medicare, TRICARE, and veterans programs, taking almost all spending off autopilot.
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(6) Implements zero based budgeting in an effort to ensure all programs and expenditures are justified by agencies from the ground up at the beginning of each budget cycle.
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The bill would call for the pay to be held in an escrow account until a budget is passed. This is Constitutional.
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