Laws
The 118 laws passed since the current Congress began on January 3, 2025. 2 have a plain-language account written from the law's official text, 115 have an account written from the official description of the bill and 1 has no full account yet. 117 of 118 laws have saved official text. The text of 1 law is Not published yet: Public Law 119-116.
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Household budget: 25 laws
Authorizes and expands sanctions and tariffs on Russia and extends existing sanctions on Iran.
Makes permanent the tax deduction for personal losses in federally declared disasters and keeps wildfire relief payments tax-free.
Requires agencies to report a flexible type of contract, used mostly for research and prototypes, on the public federal spending website.
Keeps the federal government funded at about last year's levels through December 11, 2026.
A package of housing measures intended to increase the supply of homes.
Cancels a District of Columbia law that changed how D.C.'s income and business taxes follow federal tax rules.
Lets Social Security share its full death records with the Treasury system that checks payments before they go out, so agencies stop paying people who have died.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for a further group of federal agencies.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for the Commerce and Justice Departments, science agencies, energy and water programs, the Interior Department and the EPA.
When the IRS postpones a tax deadline after a disaster, the time allowed to claim a refund is now extended to match.
Raises disability payments to veterans and payments to survivors by the same cost-of-living percentage as Social Security.
Requires IRS notices about math errors on a tax return to say plainly what the error is, how the IRS changed the return, and how long the taxpayer has to dispute it.
Ends the 43-day government shutdown of fall 2025.
Lets the IRS push back tax deadlines for people in areas where a governor has declared a disaster, without waiting for a federal declaration.
Cancels about $9 billion that Congress had already approved: roughly $8 billion in foreign aid and about $1 billion for public broadcasting.
Creates the first federal rules for payment stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar).
Payments from Alaska Native settlement trusts no longer count against aged, blind or disabled Alaska Natives when agencies decide whether they qualify for certain assistance programs.
Cancels a bank regulator's rule that changed how proposed bank mergers are reviewed, restoring the earlier, faster process.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California phase out sales of new gasoline-only cars by 2035.
Cancels a rule that would have put the largest digital payment apps under the consumer bureau's regular supervision.
Cancels a consumer bureau rule that would have limited overdraft fees at the largest banks and credit unions.
Cancels an Energy Department rule on how appliance makers certify, label and report the energy use of their products.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for tankless gas water heaters.
Funds the federal government through September 30, 2025, mostly at the prior year's levels, with more for defense and less for non-defense programs.