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The bill channels large federal resources toward infrastructure, clean energy, resilience, health research, and expanded voting access while imposing a new GHG tax, shifting fuel‑tax revenues, limiting some regulatory authorities, and creating compliance and transparency tradeoffs that could raise costs for consumers and administrative burdens for governments and businesses.
Drivers, commuters, and communities nationwide will receive substantial new funding for highways, bridges, and airports as most RISE revenues flow to the Highway Trust Fund, supporting repairs and maintenance.
Low‑income households (≤150% of poverty and SNAP participants) will get annual State grants to help with energy bills or resilience investments, reducing energy cost burdens for vulnerable families.
Workers and companies in the clean energy sector will gain federal support for research, deployment (ARPA‑E, battery storage, carbon capture/removal, CO2 transport) and a program to help displaced energy workers with retraining, relocation, health benefits, and retirement support.
Households and businesses will face higher costs for fuels and many goods because the bill imposes a new greenhouse‑gas (GHG) tax on domestic emissions, increasing consumer prices.
The bill limits EPA authority to regulate GHG emissions while the tax is in effect (a moratorium through 2039 or earlier), potentially weakening regulatory protections for air quality and public health.
Directing a large share (70%) of RISE funds to highways may crowd out other climate and community resilience priorities, limiting funding available for coastal flooding mitigation, emissions reductions, and local adaptation projects.
Based on analysis of 20 sections of legislative text.
Creates a new federal GHG pricing and border adjustment with a RISE trust fund, increases NCI funding, reforms VA personnel rules, bans certain congressional financial trading, and changes primary voting rules for unaffiliated voters.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Brian K. Fitzpatrick · Last progress December 11, 2025
Creates a new federal framework to price domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and impose a Border Greenhouse Gas Adjustment, with most proceeds routed into a new RISE Trust Fund that funds highways, resilience, worker assistance, and other programs. Adds recurring funding for the National Cancer Institute, directs DoD to appoint a PFAS community coordinator, creates a bipartisan fiscal commission with expedited Congressional consideration of its recommendations, bans House Members from certain individual financial trading, strengthens anti‑money‑laundering efforts tied to severe human trafficking, and makes multiple election, veterans, and federal workforce changes. The bill is an omnibus package that changes tax law, authorizes and directs new funding streams, changes federal and state election requirements, adjusts Department of Veterans Affairs personnel procedures, expands small business and DBE coverage for veterans, and imposes new compliance and reporting duties across federal agencies and the private sector. Effective dates vary by provision (major GHG tax rules apply to emissions after the later of Dec. 31, 2025, or one year after implementing regulations).