S.Amdt. 754

As folks keeping an eye on how our government spends money, we need to know what our elected officials are trying to do. Ms. Warren and several other Senators submitted amendment SA 754 to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 7 for the fiscal year 2025 budget.

Purpose and Changes

This amendment aims to add a point of order to the bill. In plain English, it sets up a roadblock in the Senate against considering certain legislation, bills, resolutions, motions, amendments, or conference reports that give money or federal resources to the Executive Office of the President or the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization.

That roadblock stays up until every Federal agency complies with laws, regulations, and court orders that protect the people. Specifically, agencies must do this without regard to the direction or advice of an unelected billionaire.

The protections required before funding can go through include:

• Safeguarding benefits: Protecting veteran benefits and the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits of the people from reductions.
• Protecting health research: Protecting National Institute of Health grants that benefit cancer patients, sick children, and people with rare diseases from elimination.
• Protecting workers: Protecting federal workers who ensure the safety of food, transportation, and workplaces from partisan, retaliatory, or arbitrary removal.
• Protecting watchdogs: Protecting career watchdogs who police waste, fraud, abuse, conflicts of interest, ethics violations, or unfair firings in the executive branch from termination.
• Protecting taxpayer data: Protecting the security of the data and other personal information of taxpayers from invasions of privacy.
• Protecting agencies: Protecting federal agencies that provide life-saving food aid or protect consumers from scams by large corporations from elimination.

If the Senate wants to bypass this rule and pass the funding anyway, it would take an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Senators chosen and sworn to waive it or to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair.