Limit the role of the federal government.

Additional areas of focus for Bill include: border security, limiting the role of the federal government, preserving the Great Lakes, and creating a sensible balance between federal regulation and private sector job creation.

Commits to limiting the federal government's role.

ABOUT - Huizenga for Congress
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limiting the scope of the federal government

Commits to limiting the scope of the federal government.

Huizenga for Congress
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Bill’s other areas of focus include, protecting the sanctity of life, limiting the role of the federal government

The campaign identifies limiting the role of the federal government as one of Huizenga’s areas of focus.

ENDORSEMENTS - Huizenga for Congress
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Bipartisan Fiscal Forum Co-Chairs Bill Huizenga and Scott Peters, along with Reps. Smucker and Quigley, introduced the 3% Resolution, which outlines a framework to put the nation on a more sustainable fiscal path, reduce the deficit to 3 percent of GDP, and give the Congressional Budget Office a role in assessing progress toward deficit-reduction goals.

Huizenga took concrete legislative action aligned with limiting the federal government’s fiscal footprint by introducing a deficit-reduction framework. This supports effort, but not completion of the broader claim.

partial same_term A for effort

The 3% Resolution: Huizenga, Peters, Smucker, Quigley Introduce Bipartisan Budget Deficit Reduction Measure | U.S. House of Representatives
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Huizenga and Peters introduced the Responsible Budgeting Act to reform how Congress tackles the debt limit and, in Huizenga’s words, maintain pressure on Congress to reverse reckless borrowing; the release frames the bill as reducing spending and minimizing default risk.

Another serious legislative effort consistent with shrinking federal fiscal scope, but it is not evidence that the pledge was fully delivered.

partial same_term A for effort

Huizenga, Peters Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Address Debt Limit Brinksmanship, Reduce Spending | U.S. House of Representatives
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Huizenga said he voted in support of a five-year farm bill that reduces input costs, strengthens risk management tools, and expands food processing capacity while investing in rural infrastructure.

This is evidence of supporting legislation that can reduce some federal involvement in agriculture and related programs, but it is indirect and narrow relative to the broad promise to limit the federal government.

partial same_term A for effort

Huizenga Votes to Lower Costs for Southwest Michigan Families and Farmers | U.S. House of Representatives
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Huizenga’s bipartisan Chip Security Act passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the release says the bill scales up security best practices and encourages innovative technologies to protect AI chip exports.

This shows committee-stage movement on a Huizenga-led bill, but it is not directly about limiting the federal government and does not establish delivery of the pledge.

unresolved same_term A for effort

UNANIMOUS: Bipartisan Huizenga Legislation to Curb AI Chip Smuggling Passes Committee | U.S. House of Representatives
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Huizenga announced H.R. 8283, the Deterring American AI Model Theft Act, which would authorize sanctions, create a name-and-shame list of AI thieves, and establish a pathway for U.S. coordination and enforcement.

This is concrete legislative activity, but it expands or directs federal enforcement rather than clearly limiting the federal government’s role.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Huizenga Introduces Legislation to Stop China and Russia from Stealing American AI Models | U.S. House of Representatives
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Huizenga helped introduce the GLRI Act of 2025 to reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative through FY 2031 and raise its authorization level.

This is policy action that continues a federal program, which cuts against a broad reading of limiting the federal government, though it is outside the 30-day lookback window.

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Huizenga, Dingell, Joyce, and Kaptur Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Reauthorize Great Lakes Restoration Initiative | U.S. House of Representatives
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The page lists Huizenga’s recent budget-and-spending activity, including the January 8, 2026 3% Resolution and a November 2025 statement on ending the government shutdown and reopening the federal government.

The member’s own issue page corroborates continuing attention to fiscal restraint, but it does not show that the broad claim was fully delivered within the lookback period.

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Budget and Spending | U.S. House of Representatives
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Congress.gov lists H.Res.981 with Rep. Bill Huizenga as sponsor, introduced on 2026-01-07, referred to House Budget, Ways and Means, and Rules, and still at the Introduced status. The CRS summary says it would set a goal to reduce the federal deficit to 3 percent of GDP or less by FY2030 and later pursue a balanced federal budget.

Huizenga introduced a concrete deficit-reduction resolution aligned with limiting the federal government's fiscal role, but the official status shows it had not advanced beyond introduction.

partial same_term A for effort

H.Res.981 - 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
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Huizenga's House office said he and other Bipartisan Fiscal Forum leaders introduced H.Res.981 to establish a fiscal goal of reducing the federal budget deficit to 3 percent of GDP or lower, with Huizenga saying it sets a fiscal benchmark and disciplined budget process.

The release corroborates Huizenga's active sponsorship of a budget restraint measure, supporting effort but not full delivery of the broad promise.

partial same_term A for effort

The 3% Resolution: Huizenga, Peters, Smucker, Quigley Introduce Bipartisan Budget Deficit Reduction Measure | U.S. House of Representatives
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The resolution text says the United States should reduce and maintain the federal unified budget deficit at or below 3 percent of GDP, asks Congress to adopt the target by FY2030, and calls for continued deficit reduction toward a balanced federal budget.

The bill text shows the substance of Huizenga's fiscal restraint proposal, but it is a sense-of-House resolution and does not itself reduce government authority or spending.

partial same_term A for effort

3 Percent Resolution Text
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Congress.gov lists H.R.3289, the Fiscal Commission Act, with Rep. Bill Huizenga as sponsor, introduced on 2025-05-08 and referred to the House Budget and Rules Committees. The tracker shows the bill remained at Introduced, not passed by the House, Senate, or enacted.

Huizenga sponsored another fiscal reform bill, but official records show no enacted result as of the cited record.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.3289 - Fiscal Commission Act
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Huizenga's office described H.R.3289 as creating a bipartisan, bicameral Fiscal Commission to craft a proposal addressing the debt crisis, with expedited votes and goals to stabilize debt-to-GDP and improve the long-term fiscal outlook.

This is meaningful legislative effort toward budget control, but the release describes a proposal rather than a completed reduction in the federal government's role.

partial same_term A for effort

Huizenga, Peters Reintroduce Bipartisan Fiscal Commission Act
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Huizenga and Scott Peters introduced the Responsible Budgeting Act to reform debt-limit procedures, require or trigger consideration of debt-reduction proposals, and maintain pressure on Congress to reverse borrowing problems.

The bill is aligned with fiscal restraint and shows concrete effort, but it does not prove the broad promise was fulfilled.

partial same_term A for effort

Huizenga, Peters Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Address Debt Limit Brinksmanship, Reduce Spending | U.S. House of Representatives
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Huizenga and Peters introduced the No Budget, No Pay Act, which would withhold congressional pay unless Congress passes a budget and all 12 appropriations bills on time; Huizenga said the measure would hold Congress personally accountable to budget deadlines.

This supports a pattern of budget-process reform efforts, but it is process-oriented and not evidence of an enacted limit on federal power or spending.

partial same_term A for effort

Huizenga, Peters Introduce Bipartisan No Budget, No Pay for Congress Legislation
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 190 on H.R.1 as passed, 218-214, on 2025-07-03. The vote list records Huizenga, Republican of Michigan, voting Aye.

Huizenga voted for enacted reconciliation legislation that included some spending cuts and rescissions, supporting partial delivery of narrower fiscal-limitation components.

partial same_term A for effort

U.S. House Roll Call 190 on H.R. 1
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Public Law 119-21 includes multiple sections rescinding unobligated balances for federal environmental and climate-related programs, including Clean Air Act and Inflation Reduction Act implementation funds, greenhouse gas reporting, environmental justice block grants, and low-carbon transportation materials grants.

The enacted law delivered some concrete reductions in federal funding and program activity, but only in specific areas and not an overall limitation of the federal government.

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Public Law 119-21, H.R. 1, 119th Congress
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CBO estimated Public Law 119-21 would increase the unified budget deficit by $3.4 trillion over 2025-2034, reflecting a $1.1 trillion decrease in direct spending and a $4.5 trillion decrease in revenues.

Even the major enacted bill Huizenga supported cut some spending but increased deficits overall, undercutting a finding that he fully delivered a broad promise to limit federal government.

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Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21
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The same public law also appropriated large new federal sums, including $45 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention capacity, $6.168 billion for Customs and Border Protection technology and screening, $10 billion for a State Border Security Reinforcement Fund, and additional defense and law enforcement appropriations.

Large new federal appropriations in the law show continued or expanded federal activity, which cuts against treating the broad promise as fully fulfilled.

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Public Law 119-21, H.R. 1, 119th Congress
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Huizenga helped introduce the GLRI Act of 2025 to reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative through FY2031 and increase the authorization level from $475 million to $500 million in FY2026.

This Huizenga-backed bill would continue and increase authorization for a federal environmental program, evidence against a broad claim of consistently limiting the federal government's role.

never same_term A for effort

Huizenga, Dingell, Joyce, and Kaptur Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Reauthorize Great Lakes Restoration Initiative | U.S. House of Representatives
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