42 Legislation
Make DTE Pay Act
- house
- senate
Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice
If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you
Make DTE Pay Act
To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from entering into, modifying, extending, or renewing, any contract or intergovernmental service agreement to establish or operate any new immigration detention model, including the use of warehouses, modular facilities, soft-sided structures, tent systems, and processing centers.
The bill prevents large-scale improvised immigrant detention and redirects funds toward community health and housing—improving conditions and preserving local infrastructure—while constraining DHS operational flexibility and funding uses, which may cause short-term processing challenges, contract disputes, and legal uncertainty.
Water Access and Affordability Act
Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2026
The bill increases legal protections for cleared insiders and whistleblowers by narrowing criminal liability and adding a public‑interest defense, but does so at the cost of making some unauthorized disclosures harder to prosecute and potentially creating enforcement gaps that could harm national security.
Medicines for the People Act
The bill creates a focused NIH institute to strengthen and protect biomedical research operations and governance, at the cost of higher federal spending and the risk of reallocating limited research funds away from other priorities.
Head Start for America’s Children Act
The bill makes a sweeping, well‑funded push to expand Head Start access, workforce pay/benefits, quality, mental‑health supports, and culturally responsive services—especially for Tribal and underserved communities—but does so at very large long‑term fiscal cost and with substantial new administrative, implementation, and equity risks that could strain providers and produce uneven results unless funding, guidance, and state/system alignment keep pace.
Stop Body Camera Paywalls Act
The bill increases public access to police video and incentivizes transparency through federal grant conditions, but it may strain local budgets, raise privacy/safety risks, and threaten grant funding for noncompliant jurisdictions.
Housing Our Communities Act
The bill directs competitive grants to help state, regional, and local governments reform rules, coordinate transit, and build affordable and resilient housing—likely producing more and better-located housing—but risks leaving smaller and poorer communities behind, strains local administrative capacity, and increases federal spending.
Health Equity and MENA Community Inclusion Act of 2025
The bill improves recognition, data, and targeting of health and social services for MENA communities—potentially reducing disparities—but imposes administrative costs, creates privacy and implementation risks, and requires careful safeguards and resourcing to avoid harms and inequities.
BOOST Act of 2025
The bill provides meaningful, inflation‑protected monthly cash assistance to low‑income adults and shields it from taxation and benefit offsets, but it raises sizable federal costs, creates administrative and legal compliance risks for recipients and governments, and leaves some tax-rule details uncertain.