Foundation layer

Institutional Integrity

Independent fiscal analysis, medium-term rules, digital government, and an intergenerational standard. Largely budget-neutral; the value is durability across administrations.

−$339 billion · 6 policies · $100B–$500B net savings over 10 years

How to read the indicators

Fiscal. 10-year base case. Navy = revenue; green = savings; gold = scored investment cost.
Timeline. Highlighted span on a 20-year bar. “+” means work continues past Year 20.
Middle class. Hold-harmless test for households $40,000–$150,000.
Planetary. Climate and resource effect, independent of the fiscal score.

F1 · Foundation

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Independent Fiscal Council

10-year fiscal: +$3B costModest cost
Implementation: Year 1
Middle class: Neutral directly
Planetary: Neutral

Description

Enhance CBO architecture with mandatory 50- and 75-year scenario reporting, independent long-run assessment of major legislation, and a congressional response procedure. The Council assesses; it does not bind Congress.

Global precedent

UK Office for Budget Responsibility (2010); Canadian Parliamentary Budget Officer (2008); Swedish Fiscal Policy Council; Australian PBO. OECD counts 50+ independent fiscal institutions.

Lead mechanism

Congressional action; Senate and House Budget Committees.

Bipartisan framing

Broadly bipartisan in principle, with support across multiple administrations and Congresses.

F2 · Foundation

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Medium-term fiscal rules

10-year fiscal: −$200B (indirect)Savings
Implementation: Year 1 onward
Middle class: Neutral
Planetary: Neutral

Description

Statutory debt-to-GDP and structural-deficit targets, with automatic-stabilizer suspensions in defined emergencies and five-year sunset reviews. Binding as statute subject to congressional override — not a constitutional amendment.

Global precedent

Germany’s Schuldenbremse (2009); Switzerland’s Debt Brake (2003); EU Stability and Growth Pact. Each has been suspended at points — hence explicit emergency clauses here.

Lead mechanism

Congressional action.

Bipartisan framing

Design is contested (targets, stabilizers, investment carve-outs). Statutory architecture with emergency clauses is meant to broaden the feasible coalition.

F3 · Foundation

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Long-horizon governance

10-year fiscal: +$2B costModest cost
Implementation: Year 1 onward
Middle class: Neutral directly
Planetary: Positive

Description

A Joint Congressional Committee on Long-Term Challenges and an executive Office of Long-Term Challenges, with mandatory 30- and 50-year scenario analysis for major fiscal, infrastructure, energy, demographic, and climate decisions. Version 2 extends the digital stack through D10’s once-only-government public infrastructure, and elevates the New Zealand Wellbeing Budget from an implementation model to a statutory Well-Being Impact Standard for any legislation with a ten-year fiscal effect above $10 billion.

Global precedent

Finland’s Committee for the Future (1993–); Wales Future Generations Commissioner (2015); New Zealand Wellbeing Budget (2019–), now proposed as a statutory Well-Being Impact Standard.

Lead mechanism

Congressional action; executive order for the executive-branch office.

Bipartisan framing

Broadly bipartisan in principle.

F4 · Foundation

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Federal digital-governance modernization

10-year fiscal: −$150B netSavings
Implementation: Years 1–10
Middle class: Positive
Planetary: Modestly positive

Description

Interoperability standards, Login.gov-based identity, a once-only data principle, and coordinated legacy-IT replacement on a multi-year timeline, adapted from Estonia’s e-governance model to U.S. federal scale.

Global precedent

Estonia X-Road; Denmark MitID; Singapore Singpass; UK GDS / GOV.UK.

Lead mechanism

OMB (OFCIO); GSA; agency-specific.

Bipartisan framing

Broadly bipartisan in principle.

F5 · Foundation

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Anti-corruption and ethics modernization

10-year fiscal: +$4B costModest cost
Implementation: Years 1–5
Middle class: Positive indirectly
Planetary: Neutral

Description

Expand OGE authority and resources; modernize financial disclosure; reform revolving-door restrictions; strengthen inspector-general independence; update FECA and lobbying-disclosure architecture.

Global precedent

OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity (2017); Transparency International CPI methodology.

Lead mechanism

OGE; Senate HSGAC; House Oversight.

Bipartisan framing

Broadly bipartisan in principle; specific component design is contested.

F6 · Foundation

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Intergenerational equity standard

10-year fiscal: +$2B costModest cost
Implementation: Year 1
Middle class: Neutral directly
Planetary: Positive

Description

A statutory declaration that major fiscal, infrastructure, energy, climate, and demographic decisions include analysis of effects on future generations as part of the decision record. A procedural framing requirement — not a justiciable legal rule.

Global precedent

Wales Well-being of Future Generations Act (2015); New Zealand State Sector Act amendments.

Lead mechanism

Congressional action.

Bipartisan framing

Broadly bipartisan when framed as procedural rather than substantive constraint.

Figures in this framework are illustrative directional estimates derived from publicly available data and conventional Congressional Budget Office budget-window logic. They are not official CBO scores. Any provision adopted from this framework would require formal CBO scoring before legislative consideration. This document is a policy white paper, not an introduced bill.