# H.Con.Res. 14 (119th): This concurrent resolution establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2025, sets forth budgetary levels for FY2026-FY2034, and provides reconciliation instructions for legislation that increases or decreases the deficit and increases the statutory debt limit by specified amounts

This concurrent resolution establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2025, sets forth budgetary levels for FY2026-FY2034, and provides reconciliation instructions for legislation that increases or decreases the deficit and increases the statutory debt limit by specified amounts. The resolution recommends levels and amounts for FY2025-FY2034 for federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits, debt subject to limit, debt held by the public, and the major functional categories of spending. The resolution includes reconciliation instructions that direct 11 House committees to submit legislation that will increase or decrease the deficit over FY2025-FY2034 and increase the statutory debt limit by specified amounts. The committees must submit the legislation to the House Budget Committee by March 27, 2025. (Under current law, reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate.) In addition, the resolution establishes a reserve fund that allows certain adjustments to committee allocations and other budgetary levels to accommodate reconciliation legislation. The resolution also requires the maximum deficit increase permitted by the reconciliation instruction for the House Ways and Means Committee ($4.5 trillion in the resolution) to be reduced if the proposals submitted by certain committees do not achieve a total of at least $2 trillion in net deficit reduction (or increased if more than $2 trillion in deficit reduction is achieved). Finally, the resolution sets forth budget enforcement procedures that address issues such as adjustments to committee allocations and the budgetary treatment of the discretionary administrative expenses for the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: budget_resolution. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: debt_ceiling. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: debt_spending. Category: honest_money. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: federal_spending. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: fiscal_planning. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: fiscal_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: reconciliation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 100: On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment. Vote type: final_passage.
Roll 50: On Agreeing to the Resolution, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Roll 169: On the Motion to Proceed H.Con.Res. 14. Vote type: cloture.
Roll 191: On the Concurrent Resolution H.Con.Res. 14. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a budget framework that sets deficit paths, reconciliation instructions, and a debt-limit increase. Expanding debt is a serious prudential concern about stewardship and future burdens, but the resolution does not directly fund a named moral evil such as abortion, child corruption, or unjust war. Its effects depend on later legislation, so it is best treated as a mixed prudential budget measure rather than a direct moral evil.
Theological note: Scripture calls rulers to stewardship, justice, and faithful care for the public trust, and it warns against debt-driven dependence and reckless use of borrowed resources (Proverbs 22:7; Romans 13:1-7). This measure bears on those concerns through its debt-limit increases, deficit targets, and reconciliation mechanics. Its moral weight depends on what later reconciliation legislation does with spending priorities and whether those choices protect the vulnerable and act with prudence and honesty. This resolution is a framework and does not itself enact the substantive policies.

## Recorded votes

Roll 100: On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment. Yea 216 · Nay 214 · Other 3.
Roll 50: On Agreeing to the Resolution, as Amended. Yea 217 · Nay 215 · Other 1.
Roll 169: On the Motion to Proceed H.Con.Res. 14. Yea 52 · Nay 48 · Other 0.
Roll 191: On the Concurrent Resolution H.Con.Res. 14. Yea 51 · Nay 48 · Other 1.

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