House Budget Committee
US House committee that drafts the chamber's budget resolution; cleared FY2027 reconciliation 16 July.
The House Budget Committee approved the FY2027 reconciliation resolution 20-14 on 16 July 2026, pairing $10bn in state election-integrity and voter-ID grants with $73bn for defence.
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The House Budget Committee is a standing committee of the US House of Representatives, distinct from the Senate Budget Committee, responsible for drafting the House's version of the annual budget resolution, the vehicle that opens the door to reconciliation. The two chamber committees must reconcile their separate resolutions before any bill can reach either floor under reconciliation's expedited, simple-majority rules.
The committee's most consequential recent act was approving the FY2027 reconciliation resolution 20-14 on 16 July 2026, which combined $10bn in state election-Integrity and voter-ID grants with $73bn in defence spending. That resolution forms the legislative vehicle through which Speaker Mike Johnson has pursued SAVE Act-style voter-ID provisions after two earlier routes failed.
Committee clears the voter-ID budget route
The House Budget Committee voted 20-14 on 16 July to approve the FY2027 reconciliation budget resolution, pairing $10bn in state election-Integrity and voter-ID grants with $73bn for defence spending. Structuring the money as conditioned state grants rather than a direct voter-ID mandate is read as an attempt to survive a Byrd Rule challenge before the Senate parliamentarian.
The resolution is the House half of the reconciliation route Speaker Mike Johnson turned to after the Senate rejected a Budget Act waiver in April and the House itself rejected attaching SAVE Act provisions to the defence authorisation bill in June. It now awaits a matching resolution from the Senate Budget Committee, whose own chairmanship has sat vacant since Lindsey Graham's death.
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