Yesterday, Members of the Republican Study Committee introduced their FY25 Budget proposal: Fiscal Sanity to Save America. The budget proposal was met with strong support from outside groups.

Students for Life Action: "On behalf of our over 1,400 active pro-life student groups and 200,000 trained student activists in all 50 states, please stand with us in support of Representative Kevin Hern and the Republican Study Committee’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget, the most pro-life congressional budget ever proposed. The RSC budget makes the sanctity of human life a top priority, advancing the codification of measures that would permanently and reliably protect innocent human life.” – Savanna Deretich, Students for Life Action

Rachel Barkley, Executive Director, Alliance for Opportunity: “The Alliance for Opportunity applauds the Republican Study Committee budget for making strong reforms to the safety net that would lift people out of poverty and into opportunity. We particularly appreciate the inclusion of Empowerment Accounts. This reform helps people earn long-term self-sufficiency on the road to flourishing by streamlining the maze of safety net programs, connecting recipients to work or training, and providing more flexibility with their funds.”

Ryan Walker, Heritage Action: “Our country is barreling toward $35 trillion in debt and 60% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck, crushed by skyrocketing prices that will only go higher if the government keeps borrowing and printing money we don’t have. Meanwhile, President Biden is pushing another tax-and-spend budget full of the tired Left-wing economic policies that gave us the inflation crisis. The American people deserve better. Heritage Action applauds Chairman Hern and the RSC for committing to commonsense fiscal responsibility, a balanced budget, and reducing the overwhelming size of government so American families can get back on their feet.”

Greg Sindelar, CEO of Texas Public Policy Foundation: “A budget reflects your values, and this budget has the right values. It takes strong measures to secure the border, promotes American energy dominance, and reigns in our out-of-control higher education system. It cuts vast amounts of frivolous spending including Biden’s student loan bailout, rescinds unspent COVID money, and eliminates vast amounts of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Importantly, the budget stabilizes our nation’s fiscal future by ending unsustainable deficit spending in seven years.”

David Williams, President, Taxpayers Protection Alliance: “What a breath of fresh air in a city filled with stale ideas. The RSC’s FY25 budget offers an alternative to the out-of-control spending that has become the norm in Washington in recent years. The current levels of spending are entirely unsustainable and reform is desperately needed. Perhaps most importantly, the RSC recognizes the urgent necessity of reforming Medicare and Social Security. Many Americans rely on these programs, and both will face insolvency within a decade if nothing is done. TPA is glad that the RSC budget also recognizes the importance of tax reform, especially extending several provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

“The RSC includes many proposals to corral the Biden administration’s reckless regulatory actions. It seeks to institute much-needed transparency measures as well as guardrails against administrative overreach and mission creep. The Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act (REINS Act) would send legislative power back to Congress – where the Constitution vested it – by requiring congressional assent to any regulation whose annual economic impact meets or exceeds $100 million. The RSC also proposes to streamline regulation, reduce permitting burdens, and ground regulatory action in hard data.

“Americans need affordable reliable energy and affordable reliable vehicles. President Biden has done much to hamper the production of American energy. Also, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency has initiated actions to force Americans into expensive electric vehicles (EVs), which are prone to be expensive and bad for the environment. The RSC’s budget seeks to unleash American energy providers and free citizens from overbearing regulatory attempts to steer Americans towards EVs.

“In a time in which the national debt is just shy of $35 trillion, and deficits are getting larger, leadership is needed to bring sanity back to Washington. TPA applauds the RSC for providing this leadership and standing up for the American taxpayer.

“We urge every member of Congress to vote for this commonsense budget.”

Tyler Parks, Tax Foundation:  "The Republican Study Committee (RSC), led by Chair Kevin Hern (R-OK) and Budget Chair Ben Cline (R-VA) released its 2025 FY budget with tax provisions that grow the economy and simplify the tax code, two goals that should be top priorities for policymakers. In addition to permanency for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the RSC’s budget eliminates distortive tax policy and proposes neutral, pro-growth reforms to correct the tax treatment of investment."

James Edwards, Executive Director, Conservatives for Property Rights: “The Republican Study Committee budget for FY25 contains many sound budgetary and fiscal measures while addressing several of Conservatives for Property Rights’ priorities. The FY25 RSC budget imposes fiscal responsibility, reduces regulatory burdens, strengthens congressional oversight, constrains federal agencies such as the EPA and halts ideological indoctrination on taxpayers’ dollars. On property rights, RSC halts federal land grabs. It repeals Obama-Biden Waters of the United States regulatory takings. It kills the Death Tax. Importantly, RSC bolsters U.S. industrial competitiveness by unleashing private enterprise—an important facet of property rights. To improve health care, RSC expands consumer choice and competition, and rolls back IRA price controls on innovators. For senior citizens, the proposal shores up Medicare and Social Security’s financial health while protecting seniors in or near retirement. All in all, a wealth of good policy.”

Brian Blase, President, Paragon Health Institute: “The number one fiscal challenge faced by the United States is the high and growing cost of government health care programs. Paragon research has extensively documented that government health expenditures must be trimmed by nearly $2 trillion over the next decade (relative to baseline projections) to put the entire federal budget on a sustainable trajectory.1 Paragon has also released several commonsense proposals that have attracted bipartisan support and would alleviate these cost pressures by reducing overpayments in Medicare and reforming Medicaid’s federal-state partnership.2 The House Republican Study Committee is rising to this challenge by laying out policies that would significantly reform federal health programs. These include:  Reforming ACA policies to reduce inflated subsidies to health insurers and enact policies that expand choices of coverage and lower premiums, including options that make it easier for small businesses to offer insurance to their employees; * Reducing overpayments to hospitals by advancing site neutrality in Medicare;  Reducing the ability of states to use financing gimmicks to inflate federal Medicaid payments and create much better incentives for states to obtain value from their Medicaid spending; * Reforming public health programs that would consolidate funding and focus public health agencies on activities that most matter for health and well-being. Without tackling the excessive cost of government health programs, deficits and debt will continue rising to record levels, threatening future American prosperity with higher future interest rates, inflation, and taxes. This budget shows the magnitude of these challenges and begins a necessary conversation about addressing the deteriorating fiscal position of the federal government.” 

David McIntosh, President of Club for Growth: “The RSC Budget would cut $16.7 trillion in spending, balance in seven years, save our retirement programs for the seniors who depend on them with common sense reforms, and supercharge the American economy with pro-growth tax reforms and significant rollbacks in the administrative state. This budget rejects the disingenuous calls for anti-growth tax hikes, and instead uses reforms to taxes, energy policy and welfare programs to increase economic growth and corresponding revenue. This budget stands in stark contrast to President Biden’s budget, which uses draconian tax hikes to fuels even more wasteful spending on liberal special interests. Club for Growth commends RSC Chairman Hern and RSC Budget and Spending Task Force Chairman Ben Cline for their outstanding work on this product and calls on House leadership to allow an up-or-down vote on its passage.”

Nicholas Johns, Senior Policy and Government Affairs Manager, National Taxpayers Union: “National Taxpayers Union commends the Republican Study Committee for their budget for fiscal year 2025. RSC Chair Kevin Hern (R-OK) and Budget and Spending Task Force Chair Ben Cline (R-VA) should be applauded for producing a budget that rightsizes federal spending and balances the budget in under ten years. Beyond the topline figures, the budget contains a vast array of pro-taxpayer policies which would help unleash growth and trim back the regulatory state. In particular, NTU strongly supports the inclusion of Rep. Vern Buchanan’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Permanency Act, which would make permanent the pro-growth and pro-worker provisions enacted in 2017. The budget also includes a number of reforms that would make the budget process more taxpayer-friendly, such as banning earmarks and reforming emergency spending authorities.” - NTU strongly supports this budget proposal and will continue to collaborate with the RSC to restore fiscal sanity and enact pro-taxpayer legislation.”

James Massa, CEO, NumbersUSA: “The RSC Budget holistically addresses immigration policy by addressing both illegal and legal immigration issues and concerns. Regarding illegal immigration, it includes all of the policy tools and enforcement mechanisms needed to end the border surge, protect national security, and ensurethe rule of law. Asylum reform, parole reform, return to the Migrant Protection Protocols, state standing, mandatory E-Verify, and border enforcement, are some of the essential provisions called for by the RSC Budget to address the ongoing illegal immigration crisis. Importantly, the RSC Budget also addresses our legal immigration system by first recognizing that “U.S. immigration policy should be designed to primarily serve the interest of American citizens, families, and workers.” Essential to this are its recommendations to eliminate the visa lottery and limit family-based immigration to the nuclear family—spouses and minor children—of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. These changes alone would go a long way toward improving the wages and working conditions of the most vulnerable American workers, particularly American minorities. Furthermore, by addressing the well-documented abuses of the H-1B and OPT programs, the RSC Budget would directly benefit recent American STEM college graduates, including those from America’s HBCUs, who too often are pushed aside by tech companies that prefer cheap foreign workers that do not provide exceptional abilities beyond what are plentiful among U.S. citizens. Finally, the sensible recommended adjustment to birthright citizenship of only conferring citizenship at birth to someone born of at least one U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States accomplishes the original intent of the 14th Amendment, while ending its abuse by aliens, legal and illegal, temporarily in the U. S.  Adoption of the RSC Budget would indeed establish a holistic immigration policy that prioritizes “American citizens, families, and workers.”

Mike Faulkender, Chief Economist, America First Policy Institute: “Our Nation is $34 trillion in debt and careening towards a fiscal catastrophe. Chairman Hern is right to finally push for reforms and policies that will end Washington’s out-of-control spending binge and make the American people more prosperous.

The RSC budget will get our nation back on the right track through pro-growth tax reform, deregulation, reciprocal trade policy, unleashing American energy, and giving the American people control over their own future.

It’s time to unleash American prosperity and put an end to disastrous fiscal policies once and for all.”

Paul Winfree, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Economic Policy Innovation Center: "The federal budget is on an unsustainable trajectory that threatens our government's capacity to borrow money to meet unforeseen adversities. The Republican Study Committee's budget proposal would address the drivers of the debt, grow the economy, and promote opportunity. RSC Chairman Kevin Hern, task force Chairman Ben Cline, and all members of the Budget and Spending Task Force deserve credit for their excellent work."

Nan Swift, Governance Fellow, R Street Institute: "The Republican Study Committee deserves recognition for once again developing a comprehensive budget resolution that prioritizes fiscal responsibility and the critical role that Congress plays in restoring long-term financial sustainability for key programs and our broader economy. The FY25 budget acknowledges the devastating condition of our federal finances and takes no shortcuts to change the current trajectory. 

"Most importantly, the RSC's FY25 budget would restore Congress' power of the purse with a number of process reform tools and commonsense guide rails, including a provision that would make the annual budget not merely a set of partisan recommendations but an enforceable law. Other reforms would limit spending, reduce waste, and increase accountability. Though it will require a great deal of effort, only by first reasserting the role of Congress can our looming fiscal crisis be averted.”

Shoshana Weissmann, Fellow, R Street Institute: "The R Street Institute is grateful for the Republican Study Committee's continued support for occupational licensing reform. We appreciate the recognition that burdensome licensing can cause harm when it's excessive or unnecessary."

Carrie Lukas, President, Independent Women's Forum: “Independent Women’s Forum applauds the Republican Study Committee’s FY 2025 budget because it represents common sense policies to accelerate economic growth, restore worker freedoms, strengthen American households, relieve small businesses from the growth-strangling grip of costly regulations, and bring the nation back from the brink of financial ruin. This budget reflects important priorities of deregulation, tax cuts, spending restraint, transparency, and accountability that women want from Washington.”

Gun Owners of America: “GOA is proud to support the Republican Study Committee's proposed budget, which would support national concealed carry reciprocity, eliminate ATF's illegal gun registry, and go after unconstitutional gun laws from the archaic National Firearms Act of 1934 to the more recent Cornyn-Murphy sell-out. This budget shows gun owners that RSC truly supports their Second Amendment rights."

Joe Chatham, Dir. of Govt. Relations, FAIR: “The Republican Study Committee’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget continues to advocate for critical measures to end the Biden Administration’s border crisis by securing our borders and stopping the abuse of our immigration laws.  As the budget notes, and FAIR has long supported, enacting H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, and removing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas from office are crucial steps towards accomplishing that goal. Every immigration policy decision by the federal government must serve the interests of American citizens, families, and workers. This begins by getting our borders under control. FAIR applauds Chairman Hern and the Republican Study Committee for their leadership on the immigration issue as our country faces a crisis under the open-borders policies of President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas. Congress should look to this blueprint and work to ensure that our immigration laws protect and serve the interests of American communities as they were meant to do.”

Patrick D. Purtill, Director of Legislative Affairs, Faith & Freedom Coalition: “Under the leadership of Chairman Kevin Hern and Rep. Rep. Ben Cline, the Republican Study Committee has put forward a serious budget blueprint for Fiscal Year 2025. The federal government’s unbounded appetite for ever-increasing spending levels has undermined the middle class, the engine that creates political stability and economic growth, and thereby exacerbated the income gap between rich and poor. The RSC’s budget moves toward balancing the federal ledger in seven years, addresses the systemic biases against family formation in our tax code and benefits programs that lead to poverty for far too many women and children, and ensures the critical role of faith-based organizations in addressing our most pressing societal needs is protected in law.”

Tom Schatz; President, Council for Citizens Against Government Waste: “The past three years have set Washington on a course of unsustainable spending that has caused the national debt to reach more than $34 trillion and make interest on the debt the third-highest federal expenditure.  President Biden’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget includes massive tax increases and little if any mention of spending cuts.  It shows deficits that average $2 trillion annually for the next 10 years.  The Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) budget could not be more of a welcome contrast to the Biden budget.  It would reduce wasteful spending by $16 trillion and balance the budget in seven years while maintaining the solvency of the trust funds to which taxpayers have contributed.  I commend the RSC and Chairman Kevin Hern for their work to reduce waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement and get the budget under control with commonsense solutions that should be adopted by Congress.” 

Kurt Couchman, Senior Fellow for Fiscal Policy, Americans for Prosperity: “Every year, the Republican Study Committee provides a comprehensive budget vision for the federal government. No one else in Congress does so regularly. Taxpayers deserve a Congress that provides an honest, transparent, and complete accounting of how their public servants propose to serve them. The RSC’s annual budget includes many smart options to reduce wasteful spending, to reclaim Congress’ legislative powers, and to increase freedom and prosperity for the American people.”

Richard Stern, director, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, The Heritage Foundation: "I want to applaud the Members and staff of the Republican Study Committee for their FY 2025 budget. At a time when the crushing burden of federal spending has sent inflation and interest rates soaring, RSC has instead offered a vision to restore prosperity. Their budget serves as a paradigm for a rightsized federal government and creates a pathway for a balanced budget. This plan would ensure our national defense, set a foundation to protect the natural rights of Americans, push back on the woke agenda, and lead to economic growth for generations to come."

Hon. Marilyn Musgrave, vice president of government affairs, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America: “The Republican Study Committee has yet again released a strong pro-life budget focused on protecting babies in the womb and providing real support for women and families. With the leadership of Chairman Kevin Hern and Rep. Ben Cline, this budget supports over 40 federal policies that stop painful late-term abortions, guard against dangerous mail-order abortion drugs, strengthen the pro-life safety net by standing with America’s pregnancy resource centers, and more. The contrast couldn’t be clearer: While Biden, Harris and the radical Democrats are pushing all-trimester abortions for any reason, paid for by taxpayers, and won’t even protect babies born alive after failed abortions, our pro-life allies are aligned with the majority of Americans in working to save babies and serve mothers.”

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