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H.R. 4623 115th Congress House

Cutting Useless and Redundant Bureaucrats (CURB) Act

Official title: To require each Executive agency to reduce the workforce of the agency after the enactment of a law that requires the consolidation or elimination of a program… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To require each Executive agency to reduce the workforce of the agency after the enactment of a law that requires the consolidation or elimination of a program or project within the agency, and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 12, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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Cutting Useless and Redundant Bureaucrats (CURB) Act

This bill specifies that if a law is enacted requiring an executive branch agency to consolidate or eliminate a program or project, then the agency must: (1) identify the number of agency full-time employees who worked on or administered the eliminated or consolidated program, (2) reduce its workforce by that number of full-time employees, and (3) report to Congress on the workforce reduction.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4623: Cutting Useless and Redundant Bureaucrats (CURB) Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4623/
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"H.R. 4623: Cutting Useless and Redundant Bureaucrats (CURB) Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4623/.
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H.R. 4623, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4623/.
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