Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025
The bill centralizes federal tools and a coordination center to reduce organized retail and supply‑chain theft—likely lowering losses for businesses and improving prosecutions—but it expands federal enforcement and information‑sharing in ways that raise civil liberties, forfeiture, cost, and equity concerns.
Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
To expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade.
The bill improves customs' ability to share nonpublic importation data and broadens who can receive it—helping rights holders and importers detect counterfeits and speed dispute resolution—while increasing the risk that sensitive business information will be disclosed under broad discretion, raising costs and privacy concerns for small businesses and other importers.
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
The bill funds and accelerates federal programs, grants, and pay while increasing transparency and evaluation requirements — but it raises near‑term fiscal costs, adds reporting and procedural burdens that can delay operations, and reduces some traditional oversight and flexibility.
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases transparency, oversight, and predictable funding timelines for grants and some programs—potentially protecting taxpayer dollars and speeding certain starts—but does so by adding reporting requirements, legal ambiguities, and prescriptive limits that could slow urgent responses, strain grantees and agency staff, and raise costs for taxpayers.
HELP Response and Recovery Act
The bill trades removal of an obsolete DHS requirement and new public reporting intended to increase transparency and oversight for risks to disaster-response clarity, added reporting costs, and potential exposure of sensitive contracting details.
Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization Act
The bill strengthens U.S. ability to disrupt transnational scam compounds and support victims through coordinated sanctions, asset actions, reporting, and targeted foreign assistance, while imposing new taxpayer costs, administrative burdens, compliance risks for businesses, and diplomatic risks — all under a seven-year sunset that creates future uncertainty.
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025
Combatting International Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling Partnership Act of 2025
The bill strengthens CBP cooperation with foreign partners to improve rescue and cross-border law enforcement and offers a temporary compensation mechanism for foreign victims, but it expands CBP's overseas authority and funding flexibility in ways that could strain diplomacy, civil liberties, and domestic DHS resources.
Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act
The bill improves coordination, transparency, and situational awareness about Tren de Aragua for governments, communities, and Congress, but does so at the risk of diverting DHS resources, exposing operational details if not carefully redacted, and pulling focus away from other border threats.
Syria Terrorism Threat Assessment Act
The bill improves near-term U.S. situational awareness and accountability on terrorism threats from Syria but risks civil‑liberty/privacy harms for immigrants and operational strain on DHS if safeguards and staffing needs are not addressed.
Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025
The bill increases penalties and centralizes immigration enforcement to deter repeat unlawful reentry and enable tougher prosecutions, but does so by expanding criminal exposure, reducing judicial discretion, raising detention and fiscal costs, and concentrating charging power in DHS with attendant politicization and coordination risks.
Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. ability to identify and rapidly target Haitian criminal and elite actors while protecting humanitarian aid, at the cost of higher compliance and economic impacts for businesses and Haiti, potential diplomatic and civil‑liberty risks for affected individuals, and temporary authorities that could disrupt services if not renewed.
Illegal Red Snapper and Tuna Enforcement Act
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
This package delivers sizable tax relief, defense/industrial and targeted domestic investments while tightening immigration and benefit rules and expanding fossil fuel development — producing near‑term financial and program gains for many Americans at the cost of higher federal spending, greater compliance burdens, and increased risks to climate, coverage, and immigrant access.
Special Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and provides policymakers with regional and historical data on alleged higher‑risk noncitizen encounters to improve oversight and targeting, but it raises substantial risks of stigma and profiling, may expose sensitive operational details, and imposes ongoing reporting costs on DHS and taxpayers.
Sanction Sea Pirates Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. tools to deter piracy and protect shipping and humanitarian flows, but it raises costs for taxpayers and shippers, risks diplomatic friction, and could harm innocents or limit transparency through broad sanctions and visa penalties.
Secure Our Ports Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. control over port operations to reduce foreign strategic influence and protect supply chains, but does so at the cost of limiting foreign investment and competition, which may raise costs, create compliance uncertainty, and risk diplomatic backlash.
Compressed Gas Cylinder Safety and Oversight Improvements Act of 2025
Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025
The bill strengthens tools to identify, sanction, and disrupt forced organ removal and trafficking and improves legal clarity and international advocacy for victims, but does so at the cost of greater diplomatic friction, increased government and compliance costs, concentrated executive sanction authority, and potential impacts on travel rights and legitimate cross‑border medical care.
SHIELD Against CCP Act
The bill strengthens DHS coordination, threat assessments, accountability, and targeted civil‑liberties safeguards to address CCP‑linked threats, but it increases federal costs and raises privacy, immigration‑screening, and commerce‑disruption risks while creating potential instability with a seven‑year sunset.
Subterranean Border Defense Act
The bill aims to strengthen DoD/DHS program authority and delivery, trading off greater administrative requirements for federal agencies and a risk of higher costs borne by taxpayers.
Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act
The bill creates a new federal offense and reporting regime that strengthens federal enforcement and oversight of vehicle-evading-arrest conduct (and may improve public safety and accountability), but it expands federal criminal and immigration exposure across a wide border zone, raises civil‑liberties and due‑process risks, and could increase incarceration and immigration enforcement costs.
Laken Riley Act
The bill centralizes and accelerates federal detention and enforcement for certain property offenses and gives states an expedited tool to sue over federal immigration practices—trading more consistent, quicker enforcement and faster state remedies for higher detention costs, due‑process risks, and potential operational disruption and inconsistent enforcement across states.
Expressing support for the designation of February 23, 2025, to March 1, 2025, as "National Fentanyl Awareness Week" and raising awareness of the negative impacts of fentanyl in the United States.
The bill raises public and institutional awareness about fentanyl—supporting naloxone access, targeted outreach, and law-enforcement/public-health coordination—but risks skewing resources and policy toward enforcement, border controls, and punitive responses that could undercut treatment and harm-reduction strategies.
Condemning attacks on Federal law enforcement in the State of Illinois.
The bill strengthens federal enforcement authority to address violent crime and protect federal facilities, but does so at the cost of greater deportation risk for immigrants, reduced local control, higher public costs, and potential stigma and trust erosion in affected communities.
Calling on the Government of Panama to expel officials and interests of the People's Republic of China and terminate Chinese management of key Panamanian ports.
The resolution strengthens the U.S. legal and diplomatic stance to protect the Panama Canal and deter foreign influence—potentially securing trade—but increases the risk of confrontation and diplomatic strain that could raise costs and security risks for Americans.
An original resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States possesses legal authority under existing law to take immediate and necessary action to secure the southwest border of the United States.
The resolution gives the executive branch clearer authority and operational tools to restrict entry and return certain asylum applicants to contiguous countries—potentially easing short-term border pressures and backlogs—but does so at the cost of reduced access to asylum, increased humanitarian risks for migrants forced to remain outside the U.S., and greater potential for broad diplomatic, legal, and economic fallout.
Commending Federal, State, and local law enforcement for their efforts in protecting Americans by combating drug trafficking and agroterrorism and for their recent actions in Kansas and across the country.
The resolution highlights and supports law‑enforcement successes that can reduce lethal drug supply and protect crops, but it prioritizes enforcement over treatment, may increase taxpayer costs, and raises civil‑liberties concerns for vulnerable communities.
To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities that have not been authorized by Congress.
The bill increases congressional control and oversight to reduce undeclared or prolonged military involvement and limit military escalation in counternarcotics, but those restraints raise the risk of slower executive responses, greater political uncertainty for deployed forces, and potentially higher spending on drug‑interdiction without assured results.
