Reduce annual federal deficits to 3% of GDP to cut deficits roughly in half from current levels.

1. A 3% Deficit Target: The Co-chairs have long pushed to reduce annual deficits to 3% of GDP to cut deficits in half relative to the current level. They highlighted that meeting this target would help lower national debt and reassure financial markets.

Peters and Huizenga repeated their push to set a 3% of GDP annual deficit target.

Peters, Huizenga Urge House Leadership to Adopt Their Fiscal Reforms as National Debt Tops $40 Trillion | Congressman Scott Peters
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A 3% Deficit Target: The Co-chairs have long pushed to reduce annual deficits to 3% of GDP to cut deficits in half relative to the current level.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, Peters and Huizenga renewed the 3% deficit target as a proposal to House leadership, but this is an advocacy step rather than enacted deficit reduction.

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Peters, Huizenga Urge House Leadership to Adopt Their Fiscal Reforms as National Debt Tops $40 Trillion
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The federal budget deficit totaled $2.0 trillion in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2026, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): CBO’s newest lookback-window budget review shows the deficit remains near $2 trillion before fiscal year-end, not at or below the 3%-of-GDP target.

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Monthly Budget Review: August 2026
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This bill has the status Introduced

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The House resolution backing a 3% deficit target had only been introduced and referred to committees, so the legislative attempt had not been adopted by the House.

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H.Res.981 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should reduce and maintain the Federal unified budget deficit at or below 3 percent of gross domestic product. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Congress should adopt a fiscal target to reduce the Federal budget deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product (in this resolution referred to as “the target”) or less as soon as possible and no later than the end of fiscal year 2030;

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill text sets a future FY2030 deadline; under the instruction that attempts without enactment remain unresolved until the deadline expires, this supports unresolved status while documenting effort.

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Text - H.Res.981 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should reduce and maintain the Federal unified budget deficit at or below 3 percent of gross domestic product. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-50]* 01/07/2026

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Congress.gov identifies Peters as an original cosponsor of the 3% deficit-target resolution, showing concrete effort by the officeholder.

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Cosponsors - H.Res.981 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should reduce and maintain the Federal unified budget deficit at or below 3 percent of gross domestic product. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit is 5.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2026 and grows to 6.7 percent in 2036

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): CBO’s latest 10-year baseline projected deficits well above 3% of GDP, indicating the target had not been delivered under then-current law.

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The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036 | Congressional Budget Office
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