Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
ZOMBIE Act
The bill improves measurement and risk-based controls to better detect and prevent improper federal payments, but does so at the cost of higher agency compliance burden, narrower reporting of problem payments, and less frequent public visibility.
Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act
The bill strengthens agencies' ability to pause/segment payments and requires notice and faster contest procedures to reduce improper payments, but it also risks delaying funds for needy recipients, creating recurring interruptions for programs with frequent flags, and producing uneven implementation due to narrow definitions and guidance reliance.
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
The bill meaningfully increases public transparency and oversight of federal awards by standardizing and publishing more data and creating reporting deadlines, but those benefits come with nontrivial administrative and compliance costs, potential diversion of staff from program delivery, and remaining security/coverage exceptions.
TRUE Accountability Act
The bill increases protections against fraudulent emergency spending and improves preparedness and oversight, but does so by adding agency compliance work and potential indirect costs and privacy risks without providing new funding.
Federal Fraud Prevention Workforce Training Act
The bill centralizes and funds standardized antifraud training and oversight to reduce improper payments across federal and subnational programs, but it imposes new training and compliance burdens, administrative complexity, and modest additional federal spending that could slow grant access for some recipients.
Bonuses for Cost-Cutters and Fraud Preventers Act of 2026
The bill creates financial incentives, transparency, and oversight to find and rescind wasteful federal spending—potentially saving taxpayer money—but raises risks of program disruptions from rescissions, added administrative burdens from incentives, and reduced participation by some oversight personnel.
Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
The bill improves federal detection and recovery of improper payments through expanded data access, verification, and standardized reporting—but does so at the cost of significant new privacy and data‑sharing risks and substantial administrative and cash‑flow burdens on states, recipients, and some beneficiaries.
Taxpayer Due Process Enhancement Act
The bill strengthens and clarifies procedural protections and access to judicial review for taxpayers disputing collections (preserving tolling and limiting automatic offsets) at the cost of greater administrative complexity, potential delays in IRS collections, and higher litigation and compliance risks for some taxpayers.
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act
This bill aims to create a comprehensive federal framework that promotes clearer classifications, custody protections, and pathways for legitimate digital‑asset activity to expand market participation and safety, but it does so by imposing substantial compliance costs, carving out jurisdictional limits that risk oversight gaps, and creating tradeoffs that could reduce some investor protections and push activities offshore.
SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act
The bill extends fraud enforcement and civil liability windows for COVID-era small-business relief to 10 years—boosting the government’s ability to recover funds and deter fraud while imposing longer legal exposure and higher administrative costs for businesses and agencies.
Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act
The bill trades substantially increased transparency, convenience, and electronic access to IRS services for taxpayers (and tools for preparers) against elevated privacy/security risks, implementation and ongoing costs, and potential inequities for those without reliable online access.
IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act
The bill strengthens whistleblower protections and compensation (through expanded court review, anonymity, interest on delayed awards, and clearer/expanded tax treatment) to encourage reporting and improve enforcement, but does so at the cost of greater administrative burden, longer proceedings, reduced public transparency, and higher and more uncertain government and taxpayer costs.
BARCODE Efficiency Act
The bill modernizes IRS processing by converting paper returns to electronic records—speeding processing, improving recordkeeping, and enabling oversight—while introducing risks of OCR errors, upfront implementation costs, and some new compliance burdens for taxpayers.
Taxpayer Notification and Privacy Act
The bill strengthens taxpayer notice and opportunity to respond—improving privacy protections—but adds procedures that can slow IRS actions and increase administrative costs, and contains exceptions that may blunt those protections in practice.
New Opportunities for Business Ownership and Self-Sufficiency Act
The bill expands and standardizes support to help unemployed people start businesses and improves oversight, but it increases administrative demands on states and some claimants, risks reduced participant access if limits change, and may face implementation delays.
Clergy Act
The bill gives ordained religious workers a clear, time-limited opportunity and administrative path to join Social Security — improving retirement and survivor coverage and planning flexibility — but it permanently removes the exemption once revoked, risks large retroactive tax bills for late opt-ins, and increases administrative and taxpayer costs.
Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act
The bill clarifies and streamlines rules for certain less‑than‑lethal projectile devices—reducing taxes and regulatory burdens for businesses and expanding law‑enforcement options—but does so at the cost of weaker firearms-style safeguards, potential safety loopholes, administrative complexities, and reduced federal revenue, raising public-safety and civil‑liberties concerns.
Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025
The bill creates clearer, more predictable fee allocations, deposit rules, and temporary-judge continuity to stabilize bankruptcy administration, but does so by diverting fees to the Treasury and fixing per-case dollar allocations—trading short-term predictability and centralization for risks of underfunding over time, reduced judicial turnover, and transitional fairness/administrative burdens.
504 Program Risk Oversight Act
The bill increases transparency and targeted risk mitigation for SBA Title V lending—helping policymakers, investors, and vulnerable small businesses—while raising risks of market overreaction, higher administrative costs, and potential reputational or enforcement consequences for lending partners.
Protecting Prudent Investment of Retirement Savings Act
The bill tightens fiduciary rules and increases transparency to prioritize pecuniary return and reduce conflicts—benefiting many savers and oversight—while imposing new compliance burdens, limiting default ESG exposure and some engagement tools, and introducing friction for self-directed investors.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs sizable infrastructure, cleanup, energy, and emergency resources and increases congressional transparency and fiscal controls, but it does so at the cost of tighter agency constraints, added procurement and administrative burdens, concentrated interpretive authority, and fiscal and programmatic trade‑offs that may slow implementation and affect state, local, tribal, and private partners.
Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs substantial, targeted funding and tightens transparency and oversight—strengthening strategic foreign and some domestic programs and taxpayer protections—while imposing many new controls, earmarks, and restrictions that increase administrative burden, reduce executive flexibility, and raise near‑term fiscal costs.
Breaking the Gridlock Act
The bill advances consumer privacy, oversight, veteran supports, emergency response fixes, and symbolic national heritage while imposing new administrative duties, regulatory and procurement burdens, and additional federal costs that shift trade‑offs between stronger protections/accountability and higher taxpayer and public‑sector implementation burdens.
Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act
The bill protects disaster-affected taxpayers by extending time to claim refunds/credits and reducing improper collections, at the cost of greater IRS administrative burden and slower final resolution of some tax accounts.
Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025
This bill aims to ease capital formation and expand modernized access to private markets (including by creating an exam pathway and streamlining filings) while trading off stronger investor protections, transparency, and SEC oversight — shifting more due diligence risk onto investors and advantaging better‑resourced market participants.
ARCA Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and professionalizes VA acquisition to improve reliability, oversight, and fiscal discipline—likely reducing cost overruns and improving services for veterans—while trading increased bureaucracy, upfront costs, transition risk, potential delays, and narrower contractor competition (plus the risk that some repealed authorities reduce existing veteran protections).
Tax Court Improvement Act
The bill strengthens Tax Court procedural tools, fairness standards, and protections for late filings—speeding and legitimizing adjudications—while raising compliance costs, privacy risks, and procedural/due‑process and delay concerns for taxpayers, third parties, and court administration.
Fair and Accountable IRS Reviews Act
Requiring supervisors to personally sign off on IRS penalty determinations aims to reduce wrongful penalties and improve accountability, but it may slow processing, increase agency workload and costs, and could be ineffective if approvals are routinely rubber‑stamped.
SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act
The bill gives grant recipients clearer, shorter legal exposure windows and reduces potential government costs, but it also narrows prosecutors' and whistleblowers' time to pursue fraud—raising risks of reduced recoveries and weaker deterrence against misuse of relief funds.
Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act
The bill strengthens notice clarity and access for taxpayers to understand and contest IRS adjustments, but does so at the cost of higher administrative and mailing burdens that could slow processing and increase program costs.
