L’étoile du Nord
The star of the North
Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025
The bill enforces federal immigration-alignment by restricting SBA field office presence and protecting affected employees through reassignment, at the cost of reduced local service access for small businesses, employee disruption, administrative expenses, and strained federal–local relations.
SBA Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act of 2026
To amend title 10, United States Code, to include the National Guard Relief Foundation in the definition of "military welfare society" in certain laws administered by the Secretaries of the military departments.
Federal Loan Systems Modernization Act of 2026
The bill centralizes and standardizes federal loan servicing to gain efficiency, transparency, and potential long‑term savings, but that consolidation concentrates security and operational risk, requires substantial upfront costs, and can reduce program flexibility while creating procurement and cost‑pass‑through risks for borrowers and taxpayers.
USDA Express Loan Act of 2026
The bill speeds and simplifies access to small USDA-backed loans and gives lenders faster decisions (benefiting many rural borrowers), but it reduces protections and guarantee support for larger loans and imposes tight decision deadlines that could raise costs, create uncertainty, or produce inconsistent outcomes.
Preserving Integrity in Immigration Benefits Act
The bill increases transparency and seeks to correct and deter improper immigration adjudications—boosting system integrity and public trust—but does so at the cost of administrative burden, privacy risks, a tight timeline that may limit review quality, and potential politicization of USCIS decisions.
White House Conference on Small Business Act of 2025
The bill creates a funded, state-connected national forum intended to amplify small-business input into federal policy and improve continuity, but it ties the conference’s existence and timing to voluntary funding and narrows participation in ways that could delay action, limit perspectives, and raise conflict-of-interest concerns.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish an exception for multiemployer plan participants to the requirements for automatic enrollment.
The bill reduces regulatory burden for sponsors of multiemployer and church plans and preserves current plan features for affected workers, at the cost of foregoing automatic-enrollment's likely boost to retirement savings for those workers and introducing uneven policy coverage that may complicate oversight.
SNAP Data Transparency and Oversight Act of 2025
The bill increases USDA's ability to detect fraud and improve SNAP program efficiency by requiring standardized sharing of recipient-level data, but does so at the cost of elevated privacy/security risks for vulnerable recipients and tighter deadlines that could jeopardize state administration and services.
Conservation Reserve Program Modernization Act
The bill expands and clarifies CRP buffer practices and payments—providing income, cost‑share, and environmental benefits and tighter targeting of funds—while introducing payment caps, administrative complexity, and discretionary eligibility rules that may reduce some landowner incomes, create uncertainty, and increase fiscal pressures.