A budget resolution is a concurrent resolution under the Congressional Budget Act that, when adopted by both House and Senate, sets a plan for Congress’s spending for the current year and the next five to 10 years. It is a resolution, and so is not signed into law. It may contain reconciliation instructions to authorizing committees that direct them to report legislation to make directed budgetary changes. To stay within the budget resolution’s plan, budgetary points of order may be made in the Senate against budgetary violations.
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