Reintroduce administrative pay-as-you-go
What the document says“the President should reintroduce the concept of administrative pay-as-you-go, or administrative PAYGO.”
Administrative PAYGO requires that discretionary agency actions be budget neutral, so that a new cost must be offset. The chapter says the President should reintroduce it regardless of whether Congress adopts his budget, and that it may occasionally yield to other requirements such as a presidential regulatory budget.
What the document actually says“the President should reintroduce the concept of administrative pay-as-you-go, or administrative PAYGO.”
The president should bring back a rule. It is called administrative pay-as-you-go.
Agencies can make choices that cost money. This rule says they must find savings first. If they add a cost, they must cut one. The book wants that rule back.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14192 imposes an offset requirement on agencies, but on a different ledger. It caps the cost that new regulations impose on the private sector, requiring ten regulations to be identified for repeal for each new one and the total incremental cost of new regulations to be significantly less than zero. Administrative pay-as-you-go, the subject of the proposal, imposes budget neutrality on the effect of agency actions on federal spending. The chapter itself treats the two as distinct, saying the principle may occasionally yield to a presidential regulatory budget, and the order is that regulatory budget rather than administrative PAYGO. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.