Virtue, Liberty and Independence
Protecting VA Employees Act
The bill seeks to standardize VA personnel discipline by applying general federal civil‑service rules while restoring prior VHA protections, trading greater consistency and some restored employee safeguards for possible short‑term administrative disruption, higher costs, and risks to timely discipline and care quality.
Patriot Day Act
The bill officially adds Patriot Day as a federal holiday to standardize recognition across the government, at the cost of one day of reduced federal workforce availability and potential short-term service delays.
To correct the inequitable denial of enhanced retirement and annuity benefits to certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reverse certain energy-related modifications enacted by Public Law 119-21.
The bill increases certainty for clean‑energy investors and preserves several energy credits to support homebuilding and hydrogen projects, while removing a commercial efficiency deduction and raising risks of larger federal costs and slower emissions reductions.
Reforming ICE and Protecting America Act
The bill improves continuity of pay, disaster funding speed, and DHS oversight while directing targeted equipment funds — but it does so by adding reporting burdens, creating new operational constraints, and authorizing spending that may increase deficits and reduce bicameral oversight.
Mental Health Access and Provider Support Act of 2026
Increases Medicare payments to psychologists to improve access and provider participation, but raises Medicare spending and may require offsets or reductions elsewhere in the program.
Fuel the Force Act of 2026
The bill gives substantial, targeted tax relief to qualified law enforcement officers to boost take-home pay and retention, at the cost of reduced federal revenue, perceived unfairness toward other public servants, and added tax-administration complexity.
Peace Through Strength Against Russia Act of 2025
To advance bipartisan priorities.
The bill channels new revenue toward infrastructure, energy transition, conservation, cancer research, voting access, and targeted program support while imposing new greenhouse‑gas taxes and border adjustments, adding compliance costs and constraints on regulatory and fiscal flexibility — a trade‑off between funding ambitious public priorities and raising costs/administrative burdens for taxpayers, businesses, and some communities.
To advance sensible priorities.
The bill raises and reallocates federal revenue to fund infrastructure, climate, and social-transition programs while incentivizing low‑carbon technology and strengthening some national security and ethics measures — but it does so by increasing energy costs, adding compliance burdens, constraining EPA regulatory authority, and imposing sweeping sanctions and expedited fiscal procedures that shift economic costs and political power in significant ways.