Friendship
PATROL Act
The bill gives states clearer authority and faster ability to build border barriers, potentially improving local control and deterrence, but does so at the cost of increased obstacles for immigrants, environmental risks, higher local taxpayer costs, and greater state–federal legal fragmentation.
Cost Estimates Improvement Act
The bill improves budget transparency by adding debt‑service estimates to CBO/JCT analyses, at the cost of extra analytic work for agencies and the risk that uncertain interest projections could be over‑interpreted in policymaking.
Medicaid Equal Standards Act
The bill gives states flexibility to impose resource tests and protects federal matching funds for expansion populations, but at the cost of potentially removing coverage for some low-income people, increasing health and financial harms, creating unequal access across states, and adding administrative burdens for state Medicaid agencies.
Dismantle DEI Act of 2025
The bill trades reduced federal DEI spending and limits on mandatory DEI trainings (saving administrative costs and protecting individuals from compelled trainings) for widespread rollback of programs and oversight that many agencies, contractors, schools, and marginalized groups rely on—and it introduces significant legal uncertainty and litigation exposure through vague prohibitions and strong private-enforcement remedies.
YODA
The bill substantially strengthens individual privacy, ownership, and control over personal data (including special protections for minors) at the cost of higher compliance and litigation burdens for businesses and potential reductions in ad‑supported or personalized services and some operational/security uses.
SHUSH Act
The bill reduces federal and state regulatory and tax burdens and clarifies rules for silencers—benefiting lawful owners, sellers, and manufacturers and simplifying some government functions—while decreasing oversight, tracking, and prosecutorial tools, which raises public-safety risks, revenue losses, and legal uncertainty.
No Regulation Through Litigation Act of 2025
The bill narrows how consent decrees and settlement terms can shape agency action to save taxpayer money and increase clarity about guidance versus regulation, but it also makes settlements harder, may deter legal challenges, and centralizes discretion in OIRA, trading quicker enforcement and some litigation incentives for greater judicial and executive control.
SWAG Act
The bill increases transparency and clarifies rules around federal advertising and promotional items—protecting recruitment and certain exemptions—at the cost of added compliance burdens, reduced flexibility for modest outreach, and potential legal uncertainty.
287(g) Program Protection Act
The bill makes it easier for state and local jurisdictions to join, fund, train for, and operate 287(g) immigration partnerships with more transparency and procedural protections — at the trade‑off of likely expanding local immigration enforcement, increasing civil‑liberties risks and community distrust, and adding fiscal and administrative costs.
SAFE Olympic Sports Act
The bill trades clearer, short‑term certainty for organizers and preservation of recently sanctioned single‑sex amateur competitions against imposing a narrow biological definition of sex that risks excluding transgender/intersex athletes, limiting governing bodies' flexibility, and creating litigation and compliance risks.