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Official title: Provide for additional funding for grants for reemployment services and eligibility assessments through a reduction in funds in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
Introduced December 4, 2025 by Catherine Marie Cortez Masto · Last progress December 4, 2025
The bill provides extra, flexible grant funding to help states support reemployment services for unemployed workers, but it does so by tapping a one-time balance that may make funding uneven and by redirecting money away from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
State governments and unemployed workers receive additional grant funds to support reemployment services and eligibility assessments, increasing resources for job search and placement.
State governments and unemployed workers gain flexible funding that remains available until expended, reducing fiscal-year timing pressure and allowing longer-term program support.
State governments and unemployed workers may face uneven or temporary support because the grants rely on a one-time balance rather than establishing a recurring funding stream.
Taxpayers and the public financing system for presidential campaigns lose resources because funds are redirected from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Transfers the unobligated Presidential Election Campaign Fund balance to the Unemployment Trust Fund to finance reemployment services grants.
Transfers the unspent balance in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund to the Employment Security Administration Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund so those dollars can be used for reemployment services and eligibility assessment grants. The transferred amount is the unobligated balance as of the date of enactment and remains available until spent. The change repurposes an existing federal account balance (not a new tax or ongoing appropriation) to provide funds for state-administered reemployment services under the Social Security Act.