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What has Bill Huizenga done to reduce the deficit and national debt?

Matches stated direction. He sponsored a 2025 fiscal commission bill and a 2026 deficit-target resolution, neither voted on, and voted for the 2025 law that CBO estimates adds $3.4 trillion to deficits through 2034.

Bill Huizenga

Cutting the deficit

Matches stated direction

What they say

His House website calls the deficit and the national debt unsustainable.

“Our nation’s long-term deficit and current national debt level is both unfathomable and unsustainable.”

What the record shows ·

He sponsored the Fiscal Commission Act (H.R. 3289) on May 8, 2025. It would set up a commission to find ways to cut the debt and deficit and bring the public debt to no more than 100 percent of GDP by fiscal 2039. On January 7, 2026 he sponsored H.Res. 981, which says Congress should set a target of cutting the deficit to 3 percent of GDP or less by the end of fiscal 2030. Both are still in committee.

Limit: Neither has had a vote. He also voted for the 2025 tax and spending law (Public Law 119-21), which CBO estimates adds 3.4 trillion dollars to deficits over 2025-2034, relative to its January 2025 baseline.

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  1. Issues: Budget and spendinghttps://huizenga.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=23459

    Office of Rep. Bill Huizenga · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    His official House website's statement on the budget. Undated; it gives the national debt as more than 31 trillion dollars, a level passed in January 2023, so it was written no earlier than that.

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  2. H.R. 3289 (119th): Fiscal Commission Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3289

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor: Huizenga. Introduced May 8, 2025, with 42 cosponsors by October 2026; referred to the Budget and Rules Committees, no action since. Text: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr3289ih/html/BILLS-119hr3289ih.htm (section 3(a)(2)(A) sets the 100 percent of GDP by fiscal 2039 goal).

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  3. H.Res. 981 (119th): A 3 percent of GDP deficit targethttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/981

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsor: Huizenga. Submitted January 7, 2026; referred to the Budget, Ways and Means and Rules Committees, no action since. Text: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hres981ih/html/BILLS-119hres981ih.htm (resolving clause 1 sets the target no later than the end of fiscal 2030).

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  4. House roll call 190 of 2025, H.R. 1 (119th)https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Final House vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, concurring in the Senate amendment, July 3, 2025: 218-214. Huizenga: Aye. It became Public Law 119-21 on July 4, 2025.

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  5. Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baselinehttps://www.cbo.gov/publication/61570

    Congressional Budget Office · Published Jul 21, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 2, 2026

    CBO's cost estimate for the law as enacted: a 3.4 trillion dollar net increase in the deficit over 2025-2034, relative to its January 2025 baseline.

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