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119-s-5506119th CongressWALLET

National Talent Strategy Act of 2026

Sponsored By: Senator Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE]

Introduced

Summary

Creates a federal talent governance structure to coordinate education, workforce, and talent policy. This bill would set up an American Talent Working Group to align federal funding, data, and planning and to engage states, local leaders, industry, labor, and educational institutions in a national talent strategy.

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  • Workers and jobseekers: The Working Group would drive a comprehensive Federal strategic talent plan and identify barriers to program reach, use, and outcomes. It would hold regional meetings and meet at least annually to surface workforce needs.
  • State, local, and education leaders: The bill would require formal, at-least-annual engagement with State and local officials, local workforce boards, secondary and postsecondary education, tribal leaders, industry, and labor unions to better coordinate training and hiring pipelines.
  • Federal agencies and policy alignment: Membership includes roughly 16 senior federal leaders, including Cabinet secretaries and agency heads such as Labor, Education, Commerce, NSF, and OMB. The Group must align workforce programs with updates to the President's List of Critical and Emerging Technologies and sunsets after eight years unless reauthorized.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Federal workforce planning and coordination

If enacted, the bill would require the Secretary of Labor to form the American Talent Working Group within 120 days. The group would include senior officials across multiple federal agencies, meet at least once a year, host regional meetings, engage annually with state, local, Tribal, industry, labor, and education leaders, and file a report within 30 days after each meeting to the Senate HELP and House Education and Workforce committees. The bill would also require the Secretary to produce a Federal strategic talent plan within 1 year covering a 4-year period, with reviews at least every 2 years, full updates every 4 years, and an evaluation by the Comptroller General at the end of each 4-year period. Both the group and each plan would end 8 years after enactment unless Congress reauthorizes them. The bill specifies no specific appropriation for these activities.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE]

DE • D

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC]

    NC • R

    Sponsored 9/24/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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