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Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
3/12/2025, 2:23 AM
Summary of Bill S 583
The Executive Reorganization Act is designed to give the President the authority to make changes to the structure of the executive branch of the government. This can include consolidating agencies, transferring functions between agencies, and eliminating unnecessary positions or departments. The goal of this authority is to streamline the operations of the executive branch and make it more efficient and effective in carrying out its duties.
Overall, Bill 119 s 583 is focused on giving the President the power to reorganize the executive branch in order to improve its functioning. This bill is aimed at ensuring that the government is able to operate in a more efficient and effective manner, ultimately benefiting the American people.
Congressional Summary of S 583
Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
This bill revives expedited congressional consideration of certain Presidential plans to reorganize the executive branch, expands permissible plan purposes, and changes the prohibitions on plan content.
The bill reauthorizes through 2026 a currently expired authority that requires expedited congressional consideration of certain executive branch reorganization plans submitted by the President.
The bill also expands the purposes for which such reorganization plans may be undertaken, to include
- reducing the number of federal employees;
- eliminating unnecessary and burdensome rules, regulations, and other requirements; and
- eliminating government operations that do not serve the public interest.
The bill removes the following prohibitions on the contents of such plans:
- creating new executive departments or renaming existing executive departments;
- abolishing or transferring executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions; and
- consolidating executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions.
The bill also adds a new prohibition on content, specifying that any such plan may not create a net increase in federal workers or expenditures.


