Sponsor
Brian K. Fitzpatrick
Representative · R-PA
Representative · R-PA
The bill drives major new investments—especially for highways, conservation, cancer research, voting access, and anti‑trafficking efforts—while funding them through new greenhouse‑gas taxes and complicated fiscal and administrative changes that raise consumer costs, regulatory and compliance burdens, and potential risks to public‑service flexibility and social programs.
Taxpayers, drivers, and rural communities will get sustained infrastructure support because the bill creates a RISE Trust Fund that directs major revenues to the Highway Trust Fund and provides multi‑year appropriations for conservation and agricultural stewardship (FY2027–2036).
Low‑income households, energy workers, and clean‑energy researchers gain support through set‑asides for energy assistance and weatherization, worker transition assistance (retraining, relocation, benefits), and federal climate/energy R&D funding that could spur jobs and innovation.
Cancer patients, clinicians, and researchers gain more resources because the bill supplies multi‑year supplemental funding to the NCI and mandates a study on cancer drug shortages to identify fixes.
Taxpayers, consumers, and businesses will face a new tax on domestic greenhouse‑gas emissions plus border GHG adjustments, raising costs for emitters and potentially increasing prices for goods and energy.
Public health protections could be weakened because the bill limits EPA regulatory authority over greenhouse gases while relying on the new tax, reducing regulators' non‑tax enforcement tools for pollution control.
Proposed deficit‑cutting mechanisms could lead to cuts or elimination of federal programs that benefit families, seniors, and low‑income people, and the expedited, closed procedures and strong subpoena powers concentrate decisionmaking and reduce public and congressional scrutiny.
Based on analysis of 20 sections of legislative text.
Creates a greenhouse‑gas tax with a border adjustment, sets up a RISE Trust Fund to allocate proceeds, and enacts multiple unrelated reforms on cancer funding, elections, DoD PFAS outreach, House ethics, AML/trafficking, veterans, and VA personnel.
Official title: To advance bipartisan priorities.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Brian K. Fitzpatrick · Last progress December 11, 2025
Creates a new federal tax framework on domestic greenhouse gas emissions with a border greenhouse gas adjustment, and channels most revenue into a new RISE Trust Fund to support infrastructure, highways, weatherization, and related programs. The bill also packages many unrelated reforms: supplemental cancer research funding and a study on cancer drug shortages; DoD PFAS community engagement; a bipartisan fiscal commission with expedited congressional procedures; new House ethics restrictions on Members’ individual trading; strengthened anti‑trafficking financial measures; expanded primary voting access for unaffiliated voters and related election funding conditions; a federal observance for Election Day; inclusion of veteran‑owned small businesses in certain infrastructure disadvantaged‑business rules; and restoration of prior VA disciplinary procedures for certain VA employees.