Prevent Congress from being paid unless it passes a budget and all 12 appropriations bills on time.

Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and Scott Peters (D-CA) announced the introduction of the No Budget, No Pay Act. This bipartisan legislation would prevent Congress from being paid unless it does its job and passes a budget and all 12 appropriations bills on time.

Huizenga supported legislation tying congressional pay to passage of a budget and all appropriations bills on time.

Budget and Spending | U.S. House of Representatives
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Huizenga co-led a bipartisan resolution setting a 3% of GDP deficit target.

Inference: this is a real budget action, but it is not the promised pay-withholding mechanism; it only shows Huizenga was pushing fiscal discipline.

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 White House said Congress had blocked critical funding for months and was still pushing a new funding bill.

Inference: Congress was still relying on a separate funding measure in June 2026, which is inconsistent with an on-time, all-12-bills payhold rule having been enacted.

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The Secure America Act Ends Democrat Obstruction— Fully Funds CBP, ICE and President Trump's Border Security Agenda – The White House
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President signed S. 2 into law, funding DHS, CBP, and ICE through FY2029.

Inference: lawmakers were still enacting targeted funding in June 2026 rather than a comprehensive on-time budget-and-appropriations deadline backed by congressional pay withholding.

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S. 2 Signed into Law – The White House
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Public Law 113-3 required congressional salaries to be deposited in escrow if a chamber had not agreed to a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution by April 15, 2013, with release upon passage of a budget resolution or at the end of the 113th Congress.

This proves a partial historical no-budget/no-pay mechanism existed, but it covered only budget resolutions, not passage of all 12 appropriations bills on time, and it escrowed pay rather than permanently stopping it.

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Public Law 113-3, No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013
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Roll Call 30 on H.R. 325 passed 285-144; the Clerk lists Huizenga (MI), Republican, Michigan, as voting Aye.

Huizenga voted for the 2013 No Budget, No Pay Act, showing concrete support for a related budget-pay accountability mechanism, but not for the full promised condition covering all 12 appropriations bills on time.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Roll Call 30 on H.R. 325
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GovInfo identifies Public Law 119-37 as making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026, with short titles including Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.

Because this FY2026 funding law was dated November 12, 2025, after the October 1 fiscal-year deadline, and included continuing appropriations rather than all 12 regular appropriations enacted on time, it cuts against fulfillment of the promised rule.

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GovInfo: Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
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GovInfo lists H.R. 7148 as an enrolled bill, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, with last action date February 4, 2026, making further consolidated appropriations for fiscal year ending September 30, 2026.

A major FY2026 appropriations package was still being enrolled in February 2026, months after the October 1 deadline, so Congress had not been forced by an enacted pay-withholding rule to pass all appropriations on time.

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GovInfo: H.R. 7148 (ENR), Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
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GovInfo identifies Public Law 119-86 as the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026, also titled Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026, published April 30, 2026.

DHS appropriations and further continuing appropriations were still being handled in April 2026, demonstrating that the promised on-time all-12-bills pay condition was not in force or fulfilled.

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GovInfo: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
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The White House said congressional Democrats had spent months blocking critical funding and quoted NumbersUSA saying Congress did not fund CBP and ICE through the regular appropriations process.

The administration was still describing a failure of regular appropriations and a separate funding push in June 2026, inconsistent with a fulfilled rule withholding congressional pay until on-time budget and appropriations completion.

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The Secure America Act Ends Democrat Obstruction— Fully Funds CBP, ICE and President Trump's Border Security Agenda – The White House
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The White House stated that on June 10, 2026, the President signed S. 2, the Secure America Act, providing funding to DHS, CBP, and ICE through fiscal year 2029.

A separate June 2026 funding law for DHS-related agencies shows Congress was still relying on later targeted funding action, not an enacted mechanism preventing congressional pay unless all regular appropriations were passed on time.

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S. 2 Signed into Law – The White House
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Huizenga's office said he co-led H.Res. 981 establishing a fiscal goal of reducing the federal budget deficit to 3% of GDP or lower, and quoted him saying the resolution sets a fiscal benchmark and emphasizes a disciplined budget process.

This is concrete budget-process activity by Huizenga, but it is materially different from withholding congressional pay unless a budget and all 12 appropriations bills are passed on time.

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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