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 5 to 10 years. It is a resolution so it is not signed into law. It may contain reconciliation instruction to authorizing committees that directs 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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