Davidson Introduces Amendments to Offset Reconciliation Spending by Cutting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, July 20, 2026, U.S. Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) submitted four amendments to the fiscal year 2027 budget resolution that would require Congress to cut waste, fraud, and abuse and achieve substantial deficit reduction as part of a proposed third reconciliation package.

This week, the House is considering H. Con. Res. 113, which would establish the budget framework and reconciliation instructions for legislation addressing national defense, farm assistance, and election integrity. As currently written, the resolution would permit adding up to $95 billion to the deficit without requiring corresponding spending reductions.

"Washington's deficit spending is out of control," said Davidson. "Every dollar Congress borrows fuels inflation, erodes Americans' purchasing power, and saddles future generations with more debt. The federal government wastes hundreds of billions of dollars every year through fraud, improper payments, duplication, and failed programs. Finding $95 billion in savings is easy. My amendments would require Congress to pay for this spending package by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse already identified by DOGE, the Republican Study Committee, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Congress should cut waste before asking taxpayers - or our children - to foot the bill."

Davidson introduced four alternatives that would require increasingly significant deficit reduction over fiscal years 2027 through 2036:

• The first amendment would require at least $950 billion in deficit reduction by directing the House Committee on Ways and Means to reduce the deficit by at least $750 billion and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to reduce the deficit by at least $200 billion.
• The second amendment would require at least $1.25 trillion in deficit reduction by directing the Committee on Ways and Means to reduce the deficit by at least $1 trillion and the Committee on Energy and Commerce to reduce the deficit by at least $250 billion.
• The third amendment would require at least $2.6 trillion in deficit reduction by directing the Committee on Agriculture to reduce the deficit by at least $100 billion, the Committee on Ways and Means to reduce the deficit by at least $2 trillion, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce to reduce the deficit by at least $500 billion.
• The fourth amendment would require at least $3.95 trillion in deficit reduction by directing the Committee on Agriculture to reduce the deficit by at least $200 billion, the Committee on Energy and Commerce to reduce the deficit by at least $750 billion, and the Committee on Ways and Means to reduce the deficit by at least $3 trillion. The amendment would also dedicate all savings achieved under those reconciliation instructions to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund to help protect Social Security's long-term solvency.

Davidson has identified potential reconciliation offsets within the jurisdiction of these committees, including:

• Combating Medicaid and Affordable Care Act fraud and improper payments.
• Phasing out Medicaid provider taxes that allow states to shift a greater share of their costs to federal taxpayers.
• Strengthening income, identity, citizenship, employer-coverage, and household-eligibility verification for ACA subsidies.
• Increasing state SNAP cost-sharing and strengthening work requirements.
• Limiting broad-based categorical eligibility for SNAP.
• Expanding healthcare price transparency and program-integrity enforcement.
• Restoring spending reductions and reforms removed from previous reconciliation legislation.

View Rep. Davidson's full list of potential offsets HERE.

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