The bill
Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
HR. 1295, 119th Congress — read as touching Labor Unions.
Sponsored by
Rep. Comer, James [R-KY-1]
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HR. 1295, 119th Congress — read as touching Labor Unions.
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The alignment
This bill's text tracks the "Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy" section, p. 118-121 of the Mandate for Leadership.
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 397.
January 26, 2026
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Another bill from the esteemed members of Congress, because what this country really needs is more bureaucratic reorganization. Let's get down to business and dissect this mess.
**Main Purpose & Objectives:** The Reorganizing Government Act of 2025 (HR 1295) claims to aim for "efficient executive reorganization" by amending chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code. In reality, it's a thinly veiled attempt to grant the President more authority to reshape the executive branch without Congressional oversight. The bill's sponsors want you to believe this will lead to cost savings and improved efficiency. Please.
**Key Provisions & Changes to Existing Law:** The bill makes several changes to existing law, including:
* Expanding the President's reorganization authority to include eliminating "unnecessary" operations and reducing the number of Federal employees (because who needs those pesky bureaucrats, right?). * Redefining what constitutes an "executive department" to include more agencies and offices. * Granting the President more flexibility in consolidating or abolishing executive departments.
**Affected Parties & Stakeholders:** The usual suspects will be impacted:
* Federal employees, who might find themselves on the chopping block. * Agencies and departments that could be consolidated or eliminated. * Lobbyists and special interest groups, who will likely have a field day trying to influence the reorganization process. * Taxpayers, who will foot the bill for this bureaucratic shell game.
**Potential Impact & Implications:** This bill is a recipe for disaster. By giving the President more authority to reorganize the executive branch without adequate oversight, we can expect:
* A further concentration of power in the hands of the Executive. * Increased politicization of the bureaucracy. * Potential job losses and disruption of essential government services. * More opportunities for cronyism and corruption.
In short, this bill is a classic case of "reorganizing the deck chairs on the Titanic." It's a distraction from the real issues facing our country, and it will only serve to further entrench the interests of those who benefit from the status quo. Bravo, Congress. You've done it again.
Rep. Comer, James [R-KY-1]
Congress 119 • 2024 Election Cycle
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Which industries are materially affected by specific provisions in this bill. 3 harmed.
Section 901(a)(7) explicitly aims to reduce the number of Federal employees, which could directly harm labor unions by reducing their membership and bargaining power.
Section 905(a)(7) creates a provision that could limit government contracts or investments, potentially affecting private equity and hedge funds by creating a net increase in the number of Federal workers or a net increase in expenditures.
The overall reduction in government operations and potential decrease in federal employees (Section 901(a)(7)) might reduce demand for banking services from the government sector.
For each industry this bill affects, here's what the sponsor (Rep. Comer, James [R-KY-1])received from donors associated with that industry during the 2022–present cycles. Donations are not proof of intent — they are a record of who funds the people writing the law.
This bill shows semantic similarity to the following sections of the Project 2025 policy document.AI-enhanced analysis provides detailed alignment ratings.
AI Analysis:
"HR 1295 directly expands the President's authority to reorganize and streamline the executive branch, prohibit net increases in federal workers, and eliminate unnecessary functions—core objectives of the Project 2025 Central Personnel Agencies policy focused on managing bureaucracy through efficiency reforms, workforce reduction, and limiting union-related costs."
— 85 — Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy 20. See Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, “Government Efficiency and Effectiveness: Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions in Financial Benefits,” testimony before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, GAO-21-544T, May 12, 2021, https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao- 21-544t.pdf (accessed February 2, 2023). 21. S. 20, Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, Public Law No. 103-62, 103rd Congress, August 3, 1993, https://www.congress.gov/103/statute/STATUTE-107/STATUTE-107-Pg285.pdf (accessed February 2, 2023). 22. Paul Light, “The Real Crisis in Government,” The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin), January 22, 2010, https:// captimes.com/news/opinion/column/paul-c-light-the-real-crisis-in-government/article_9e139318-3d00- 5898-908d-4c7aee1e105d.html (accessed March 15, 2023). 23. U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 3, https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii#section3 (accessed February 2, 2023). 24. President Donald J. Trump, Executive Order 13957, “Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service,” October 21, 2020, in Federal Register, Vol. 85, No. 207 (October 26, 2020), pp. 67631–67635, https://www.govinfo.gov/ content/pkg/FR-2020-10-26/pdf/2020-23780.pdf (accessed February 2, 2023). 25. See note 17, supra. 26. President Donald J. Trump, Executive Order 13836, “Developing Efficient, Effective, and Cost-Reducing Approaches to Federal Sector Collective Bargaining,” May 25, 2018, in Federal Register, Vol. 83, No. 106 (June 1, 2018), pp. 25329–25334, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-06-01/pdf/2018-11913.pdf (accessed February 2, 2023). 27. President Donald J. Trump, Executive Order 13837, “Ensuring Transparency, Accountability, and Efficiency in Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Use,” May 25, 2018, in Federal Register, Vol. 83, No. 106 (June 1, 2018), pp. 25335–25340, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-06-01/pdf/2018-11916.pdf (accessed February 2, 2023). 28. See note 16, supra. 29. See note 17, supra. 30. Philip K. Howard, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions (Garden City, NY: Rodin Books, 2023). 31. James Madison, The Federalist Papers No. 45, January 26, 1788, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/ Madison/01-10-02-0254 (accessed February 1, 2023). — 87 — Section Two THE COMMON DEFENSE W hile the lives of Americans are affected in noteworthy ways, for better or w orse, by each part of the executive branch, the inherent importance of na tional defense and foreign affairs makes the Departments of Defense and State first among equals. Originating in the George Washington Administra- tion, the War Department (as it was then known) was headed by Henry Knox, America’s chief artillery officer in the Revolutionary War; Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, was the first Secretary of State. Despite such long and storied histories, neither department is currently living up to its standards, and the success of the next presidency will be determined in part by whether they can be significantly improved in short order. “Ever since our Founding,” former acting secretary of defense Christopher Miller writes in Chapter 4, “Americans have understood that the surest way to avoid war is to be prepared for it in peace.” Yet the Department of Defense “is a deeply troubled institution.” It has emphasized leftist politics over military readiness, “Recruiting was the worst in 2022 that it has been in two generations,” and “the Biden Admin- istration’s profoundly unserious equity agenda and vaccine mandates have taken a serious toll.” Additionally, Miller writes that “the atrophy of our defense industrial base, the impact of sequestration, and effective disarmament by many U.S. allies have exacted a high toll on America’s military.” Moreover, our military has adopted a risk-averse culture—think of masked soldiers, sailors, and airmen—rather than instilling and rewarding courage in thought and action. The good news is that most enlisted personnel, and most officers, especially below the rank of general or admiral, continue to be patriotic defenders of liberty.
AI Analysis:
"HR 1295 directly expands the President's authority to reorganize and shrink the federal workforce, which aligns with Project 2025's core objective of deconstructing the Administrative State and streamlining government operations."
— xiii — The 2025 Presidential Transition Project A NOTE ON “PROJECT 2025” We want you! The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is the conservative m ovement’s unified effort to be ready for the next conservative Ad ministration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025. Welcome to the mission. By opening this book, you are now a part of it. Indeed, one set of eyes reading these passages will be those of the 47th President of the United States, and we hope every other reader will join in making the incoming Admin- istration a success. History teaches that a President’s power to implement an agenda is at its apex during the Administration’s opening days. To execute requires a well-conceived, coordinated, unified plan and a trained and committed cadre of personnel to implement it. In recent election cycles, presidential candidates normally began transition planning in the late spring of election year or even after the party’s nomination was secured. That is too late. The federal government’s complexity and growth advance at a seemingly logarithmic rate every four years. For conservatives to have a fighting chance to take on the Adminis- trative State and reform our federal government, the work must start now. The entirety of this effort is to support the next conservative President, whoever he or she may be. In the winter of 1980, the fledging Heritage Foundation handed to President-elect Ronald Reagan the inaugural Mandate for Leadership. This collective work by conser- vative thought leaders and former government hands—most of whom were not part of Heritage—set out policy prescriptions, agency by agency for the incoming President. The book literally put the conservative movement and Reagan on the same page, and the revolution that followed might never have been, save for this band of committed and volunteer activists. With this volume, we have gone back to the future—and then some. — xiv — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise It’s not 1980. In 2023, the game has changed. The long march of cultural Marxism through our institutions has come to pass. The federal government is a behemoth, weaponized against American citizens and conservative values, with freedom and liberty under siege as never before. The task at hand to reverse this tide and restore our Republic to its original moorings is too great for any one conservative policy shop to spearhead. It requires the collective action of our movement. With the quickening approach of January 2025, we have two years and one chance to get it right. Project 2025 is more than 50 (and growing) of the nation’s leading conservative organizations joining forces to prepare and seize the day. The axiom goes “person- nel is policy,” and we need a new generation of Americans to answer the call and come to serve. This book is functionally an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State. The project is built on four pillars. l Pillar I—this volume—puts in one place a consensus view of how major federal agencies must be governed and where disagreement exists brackets out these differences for the next President to choose a path. l Pillar II is a personnel database that allows candidates to build their own professional profiles and our coalition members to review and voice their recommendations. These recommendations will then be collated and shared with the President-elect’s team, greatly streamlining the appointment process. l Pillar III is the Presidential Administration Academy, an online educational system taught by experts from our coalition. For the newcomer, this will explain how the government functions and how to function in government. For the experienced, we will host in-person seminars with advanced training and set the bar for what is expected of senior leadership. l In Pillar IV—the Playbook—we are forming agency teams and drafting tran- sition plans to move out upon the President’s utterance of “so help me God.” As Americans living at the approach of our nation’s 250th birthday, we have been given much. As conservatives, we are as much required to steward this precious heritage for the next generation. On behalf of our coalition partners, we thank you and invite you to come join with us at project2025.org. Paul Dans Director, Project 2025
AI Analysis:
"HR 1295 directly expands the President's authority to reorganize and streamline the executive branch, reduce federal employment, and eliminate unnecessary functions—core goals of Project 2025's emphasis on presidential control over personnel and bureaucracy to implement policy agendas."
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