Friendship
PATROL Act
The bill shifts authority to states to build border barriers quickly—potentially improving local control and deterring crossings—but does so at the expense of federal oversight, raising significant civil‑liberty, governance, fiscal, and environmental risks.
Cost Estimates Improvement Act
The bill improves fiscal transparency and policymaking by adding debt-service estimates to CBO/JCT analyses, but it imposes additional workload on scorekeepers and risks policy missteps if those interest estimates are uncertain.
Dismantle DEI Act of 2025
The bill reduces federal DEI structures and restricts federally funded DEI activities to save money and protect individuals from mandatory trainings, but in doing so it removes institutional tools to address discrimination, creates legal ambiguity, and exposes agencies and private entities to significant litigation and transition costs.
YODA
The bill substantially strengthens Americans' privacy and control over their personal data—especially for children—while imposing meaningful compliance, litigation, and operational costs that could raise prices, reduce some data‑driven services, and complicate security and regulatory practices.
SHUSH Act
The bill reduces federal and state paperwork, taxes, and regulatory burdens for silencers—making lawful ownership and interstate commerce easier—but at the cost of diminished tracking, enforcement tools, potential revenue loss, and increased public‑safety and prosecutorial risks.
No Regulation Through Litigation Act of 2025
The bill increases clarity and limits government payouts from settlement-driven rulemaking, but does so by constraining agencies' settlement flexibility and concentrating exemption authority in the Executive Office—potentially deterring legal challenges and politicizing what counts as a regulation.
SWAG Act
The bill increases transparency and clarifies/limits what counts as government "swag," preserving recruitment and certain exemptions, but does so by imposing new ROI-based rules and reporting requirements that raise compliance costs, constrain outreach flexibility, and risk subjective enforcement or litigation.
287(g) Program Protection Act
The bill formalizes, funds, trains, and increases transparency for local participation in immigration enforcement—giving jurisdictions more control and procedural protections—while making expanded local enforcement more likely, risking community trust and civil‑liberties harms and concentrating oversight in DHS with added costs.
SAFE Olympic Sports Act
The bill gives organizers and athletes greater certainty and preserves previously sanctioned single-sex competitions, but it enshrines a rigid, biological definition of sex that risks excluding transgender/intersex athletes and creating legal and compliance costs for governing bodies.
District of Columbia Medicaid Fairness Act
The bill provides DC officials predictable, multi-year Medicaid funding rules and incentives to control costs but shifts more fiscal burden to the District, risking cuts or reduced access for beneficiaries and financial strain on taxpayers and local health providers.