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The bill locks in constitutional birthright citizenship and limits unilateral executive actions, protecting families and legal stability but narrowing congressional flexibility and risking loss of some executive-order protections and administrative disruptions.
Children born in the U.S., including those of resident noncitizen parents, keep federal birthright citizenship, securing passports, benefits, and legal status for families and youth.
Preserves congressional and federal-agency control over citizenship policy and prevents unilateral executive changes, providing legal stability and clearer separation of powers.
Prevents spending taxpayer dollars to implement the challenged executive order's programs or directives.
Affirming protected birthright citizenship narrows Congress's ability to revise or rescind citizenship rules, limiting legislative flexibility on immigration policy.
People who would have received protections or programs under the executive order — including some immigrants — may lose those benefits.
May provoke litigation and interbranch political conflict that creates uncertainty and administrative disruption for federal and state workers tasked with citizenship-related programs.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Bars any federal funds from being used to implement or continue Executive Order 14160 or successor actions that would restrict birthright citizenship, and reaffirms constitutional and statutory birthright protections.
Introduced February 20, 2025 by Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen · Last progress February 20, 2025
Prohibits any federal funds from being used to implement, enforce, or continue President Trump's January 20, 2025 Executive Order 14160 or any successor executive order, regulation, or policy that would restrict or alter birthright citizenship. The bill also affirms that the 14th Amendment and current federal law guarantee citizenship to persons born or naturalized in the United States and points to Supreme Court precedent interpreting birthright citizenship.