The Executive Action Cost Transparency Act requires the Congressional Budget Office to track and report on the budgetary costs of executive and judicial actions, including executive orders, regulations, and court decisions. The bill amends federal budget law to include these actions in baseline budget calculations and requires the CBO to publish a separate table in its reports showing any executive or judicial actions issued since the last report that have estimated budgetary effects of at least $50 billion over a ten-year period. This transparency requirement aims to give Congress and the public better visibility into how presidential decisions and court rulings affect federal spending and revenues beyond what traditional legislation accomplishes. The bill directs the CBO to follow existing scorekeeping guidelines when making these cost estimates and to include proposed executive actions in their analysis as if they were finalized. No specific funding is allocated in the legislation, as it primarily creates a reporting requirement for an existing agency.
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