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The bill prevents federal naming and spending to honor sitting Presidents to curb self-promotion and save limited funds, at the cost of added agency implementation work and removing a way to symbolically recognize a sitting President's achievements.
Taxpayers and the public: properties named for sitting Presidents will revert to prior names, reducing opportunities for perceived self-aggrandizement and reinforcing norms against incumbents using federal naming for personal promotion.
Taxpayers: the bill prohibits use of federal funds to name or rename properties for sitting Presidents, preserving limited federal resources for other priorities.
Federal agencies and federal employees: agencies must carry out renaming actions for existing properties, creating administrative work and incurring implementation costs.
Supporters of a sitting President and civic groups: the restriction removes a mechanism to symbolically honor a sitting President for broadly supported achievements, limiting recognition options.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits naming or renaming any federal building, land, or other federal asset in the name of a sitting President, bars the use of federal funds for such naming actions, and requires any asset already named for a sitting President as of enactment to be returned to its prior federally assigned name. A short-title provision is included but contains no substantive effects.
Introduced January 13, 2026 by April McClain Delaney · Last progress January 13, 2026