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The bill prioritizes conserving Treasury funds and preventing financial relief to January 6 defendants—redirecting potential refunds to Capitol needs—but does so at the cost of denying some individuals compensation and raising legal and oversight risks.
Taxpayers: the bill bars Treasury funds from being used to refund fines, restitution, or otherwise compensate people prosecuted in the January 6 attack, preserving federal money for other uses.
People generally / public interest: the bill prevents pardoned or otherwise cleared individuals tied to the January 6 prosecutions from receiving federal reimbursements of penalties, reinforcing financial accountability for those convictions.
Federal workplaces / Capitol stakeholders: amounts that would otherwise be refunded to certain defendants are redirected to the Architect of the Capitol, providing additional funds for Capitol repairs, security, and maintenance.
Individuals convicted, pardoned, or later cleared: the bill can deny reimbursement or compensation for medical, legal, property, or other harms tied to the events, leaving some people without redress.
Taxpayers and the government: denying Treasury disbursements that conflict with court-ordered refunds or treating Jan. 6 defendants differently risks litigation and constitutional challenges (e.g., equal protection, separation of powers), which could result in court reversals, damages, or legal costs.
Taxpayers and congressional oversight: redirecting refunds to the Architect of the Capitol concentrates funds without the normal appropriations lines and oversight, which may circumvent ordinary congressional control of spending.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Prevents federal payments or refunds to individuals prosecuted for the January 6 attack and redirects any refunded amounts to the Architect of the Capitol.
Introduced January 6, 2026 by Alejandro Padilla · Last progress January 6, 2026
Prohibits the federal government from using any federal funds to compensate, reimburse, or otherwise pay individuals who were prosecuted for participating in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including people who were later pardoned. It also blocks creation of any compensation fund for those individuals and prevents Treasury from refunding court-ordered payments (restitution, fines, special assessments) made by such persons; any amounts that would have been refunded are to be transferred to the Architect of the Capitol.