Requires a 10 percent cut to the budget level of federal programs that lack current spending authorization, a 15 percent cut in the second and third years without reauthorization, and termination of programs still unauthorized after the third year.

• Starts a recurring three-year reduction cycle in fiscal year 2026 for programs listed by the Congressional Budget Office as having authorizations that expire, including programs whose authorizations expired before fiscal year 2026 and are funded that year.
• Reduces the budgetary level for the year after expiration by 10 percent of the prior year's appropriation, then by 15 percent in the second and third years.
• Terminates a program still unauthorized on October 1 after the third year, and bars obligating funds for it without express reauthorization with an authorization period of no more than three years.
• Exempts a program from the reductions if Congress reauthorizes it in the same fiscal year with a sunset provision of three years or less.

• Rules Committee (House)
• Budget Committee (House)
• Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)

Economics and Public Finance