Ditat Deus
God enriches
North Rim Restoration Act
The bill prioritizes faster recovery and reopening by letting agencies use emergency and sole-source contracting, trading off increased speed and continuity of services against reduced competition, higher cost risk for taxpayers, and greater oversight and fairness concerns for small businesses.
Apache County and Navajo County Conveyance Act of 2025
The bill provides local counties low-cost land and quicker transfers to meet cemetery needs but shifts costs, environmental cleanup responsibility, and some legal risk from the federal government to local governments and nearby communities.
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona.
The bill transfers ~232.9 acres of National Forest land to Gila County at no purchase cost to enable local veteran services and planning control, while shifting financial risks and removing public forest land from federal management—trading expanded veteran-focused facilities for reduced public access and increased local fiscal and legal liability.
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.
End H–1B Visa Abuse Act of 2026
The bill trades significant restrictions on legal immigration and visa flexibility (to protect some U.S. workers and simplify enforcement) for large, immediate disruptions to immigrant workers and families, employers, universities, and the U.S. innovation and public‑sector workforce — raising risks of economic harm, family separation, and legal challenges.
Nick Shirley Congressional Gold Medal Act
The bill creates a formal, self‑funded mechanism to honor and produce publicly purchasable replica medals—reducing direct appropriations—while shifting financial risk to the Mint's enterprise fund, potentially limiting public accessibility and risking politicization of a ceremonial honor.
Nick Shirley Congressional Gold Medal Act
The bill creates and sells an official medal to honor investigative reporting and aims to be self-funded through numismatic sales, but it risks politicizing Congressional honors and causing reputational and economic harm to named communities while creating modest fiscal and administrative burdens for the Mint and taxpayers.
Atmosphere Study Act
The bill directs a federal assessment and coordinated oversight of federally funded geoengineering to better inform policymakers and protect communities, but it raises modest federal costs, risks agency overlap, and may leave privately funded activities unassessed.
Yavapai-Apache Nation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2025
The bill secures significant, long‑term water supplies, infrastructure funding, and legal certainty for the Yavapai‑Apache Nation and nearby communities—but does so by committing substantial federal funds, imposing enforceability conditions and waivers that limit future claims and some sovereign and individual rights, while shifting ongoing costs and some oversight responsibilities onto the Tribe, local users, and federal agencies.
DEFEND Act
The bill improves detection, interagency coordination, and public situational awareness around malicious UAS and emerging CBRN/swarm risks, but does so at the cost of added government workload, potential transparency and conflict‑of‑interest concerns, and possible economic impacts on commercial drone use tied to foreign‑origin restrictions.
