Working Families Flexibility Act of 2025

HR3151 — SHIPS for America Act of 2025

Rebuild U.S. commercial shipbuilding and a U.S.-flag strategic fleet by pairing new tax credits, grants, and operating payments with stronger cargo-preference rules and workforce and innovation programs to restore domestic capacity and sealift readiness. It centralizes maritime strategy in a White House advisor and a Maritime Security Board and funds a broad set of industrial, port, and training programs to favor U.S.-built, U.S.-crewed vessels.

HR1915 — Stop the Cartels Act

Strengthen U.S. tools against transnational drug and human trafficking networks. This bill would require new, frequent intelligence reporting, create a new designation for cross‑border criminal groups, change asylum and detention rules, and reconfigure some behavioral health funding.

HR687 — MERIT Act of 2025

Overhauls how the federal government handles employee discipline and related pay and benefits. This bill would replace Chapter 43 with a new adverse-action framework and add new rules on furloughs, annuity reductions for certain felony convictions, bonus recoupment, and longer probationary periods. - Federal employees would face a new furlough cause with a set appeal timeline. Furloughs could be appealed to the Merit Systems Protection Board within 10 business days, and many probationary periods would extend to two years for new appointees. - Retirees and annuitants could see annuities reduced if finally convicted of a felony tied to official duties. Agencies must give at least 15 business days notice, update records and OPM must recalculate benefits within 30 business days, and MSPB review would be available. - Agencies and OPM would get new rulemaking work and authorities. OPM must issue key furlough rules within 180 days, agencies gain explicit authority to recoup bonuses after adverse findings and must enforce a prohibition on certain bonuses for five years after the fiscal year with an adverse finding, with repayment plans and hearings set by agencies.

HR4706 — Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act

Limits foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land and residential real estate by covered foreign entities. The bill would ban certain foreign entities from acquiring or leasing farm land and place a temporary prohibition on them buying many kinds of housing, while setting divestment deadlines, daily fines, and enforcement tools. - Farmers and rural communities: Covered foreign entities would be barred from acquiring or leasing U.S. agricultural land and forced to divest within one year or face fines of $100 per acre per day, potential criminal penalties up to five years, and forfeiture with public auction. - Homebuyers and housing markets: The bill would impose an initial two year ban on covered foreign entities buying defined residential properties, allow Presidential two year extensions, require divestment within one year, and impose fines of $1,000 per unit per day for violations. - Federal enforcement and agencies: The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce must issue rules and set up enforcement offices within 180 days, and the Attorney General is authorized to seize forfeited property, pursue public auctions, and seek injunctive relief.

HR2282 — Respect Parents’ Childcare Choices Act

Shifts direct federal child-care payments to parent-controlled child care certificates while reauthorizing the Child Care and Development Block Grant through 2031. The bill also broadens who can be paid, strengthens religious-provider protections, and removes the current household and dependent care tax credit. - Families: Changes eligibility rules by capping family assets at $1,000,000 and creating income tiers tied to State median income, including coverage up to 85% of the State median for unmarried-headed households. - Providers and relatives: Explicitly recognizes in-home providers and relative caregivers, requires State plan protections, and mandates that payments to relative caregivers be at least 75% of family child care rates in the same area. - Taxpayers and tax law: Repeals the household and dependent care tax credit for taxable years after enactment and updates several related tax-code rules affecting dependent care definitions and special spouse rules. Authorizes appropriations of $14.0 billion per year for fiscal years 2026–2031 and $50 million for each of two two-year pilots, which would increase federal spending if funded by future appropriations.

HR833 — Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025

Federal tax credits for donations to scholarship organizations would create matching tax incentives for individuals and corporations to fund K–12 scholarships. The bill targets households up to 300% of area median income, sets a $10 billion annual volume cap, and would exclude those scholarship amounts from gross income.