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.
Veteran Burial Benefit Correction Act
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 1st Avenue Southeast in Austin, Minnesota, as the "John Madden Memorial Post Office".
National Guard Relief Act
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 preserves flexibility and lowers administrative burdens for church and multiemployer plan sponsors but does so at the cost of likely reduced automatic-enrollment-driven retirement savings for some workers and more uneven retirement policy coverage.