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Introduced January 28, 2025 by Jodey Cook Arrington · Last progress January 28, 2025
Removes or narrows many immigration-based eligibility categories and bars a wide range of federal benefits, tax credits, housing supports, health coverage, education funds, and certain federal grants from being provided to specified noncitizen groups. It also restricts how federal funds may be used by states, localities, nonprofits, housing programs, FEMA, and health centers, and authorizes the Secretary of Education to cut education funding for jurisdictions deemed “sanctuary.” The bill changes statutory language to name the Department of Homeland Security where appropriate, requires agencies to issue implementing rules, and sets tax-related effective dates (many tax provisions apply to taxable years beginning after Dec 31, 2025).
The bill shifts many federal benefits and funds toward U.S. citizens and explicitly narrows eligibility for numerous noncitizen categories—reducing federal spending and clarifying some rules while risking major coverage, housing, nutrition, education, and public‑health harms to immigrants, mixed‑status families, nonprofits, and the localities that serve them.
U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents will be prioritized for many federal benefits (Medicaid/ACA subsidies, housing, Head Start, WIC/school meals, federal student aid), preserving and clarifying eligibility for those groups.
The bill narrows and clarifies statutory eligibility categories across multiple programs (by naming specific ineligible noncitizen categories and specifying agency roles), giving administrators clearer, narrower rules to apply.
Reductions in eligibility for many noncitizen categories are likely to lower federal benefit outlays and FEMA/other program spending, producing federal and taxpayer savings.
Large numbers of noncitizens (including DACA, TPS, parole, asylum, withholding, many humanitarian statuses) would lose access to Medicaid, Medicare enrollment, ACA premium tax credits, and cost‑sharing reductions, increasing uninsured rates and out‑of‑pocket medical costs.
Children in mixed‑status or noncitizen families could lose WIC, free/reduced-price school meals, Head Start, and other early‑childhood services, increasing food insecurity, harming school performance, and worsening long‑term educational outcomes.
Low‑income noncitizen and mixed‑status households face loss of federally assisted housing, LIHTC tenancy, and community development block grant–funded services, raising housing instability, family separation risks, and homelessness.