American Families First Act

HR4393 — DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025

This bill would create a comprehensive immigration and border-security overhaul that layers new physical barriers and surveillance with big changes to employer verification, asylum processing, and legal-status pathways. It bundles construction and funding, a rethought E‑Verify system, expedited asylum at humanitarian campuses, and new conditional and Dignity status routes for long‑term residents. - Would expand humanitarian processing and asylum rules for migrants. It would establish at least three southern border humanitarian campuses for screening, medical checks, legal orientation, and an expedited asylum track with a 72‑hour arrival rest and a 15‑day initial screening goal. - Would change worksite verification and employer rules. It would replace the current system with a new Employment Eligibility Verification System, phase mandatory employer use by size over 6–24 months, allow secondary checks and a limited good‑faith defense, and raise penalties and debarment authority for violations. - Would invest in ports, infrastructure, and backlog tools and create a new trust fund. It would authorize $2.0 billion annually for ports in FY2026–2030, create an Immigration Infrastructure and Debt Reduction Fund, and permit premium processing deposits including a $20,000 premium option to address visa backlogs. Would authorize substantial new appropriations and fee deposits, including $2.0 billion annually for FY2026–2030, increasing federal outlays.

HR6644 — Housing for the 21st Century Act

*A federal push to increase housing supply by modernizing zoning and reforming housing programs.* The bill pairs model zoning guidelines and local planning pilots with HOME program changes and multiple HUD pilots to speed production and improve tenant supports. - Families and renters: HOME program rules harmonize income limits to 100% of area median income and raise homeownership eligibility to 110% AMI, expanding who can get help for rental and homebuying. Tenants in federally assisted housing gain new supports such as an eviction helpline and pilots for escrow accounts and internet-connected temperature sensors to track habitability. - Local governments and planners: HUD must publish model zoning guidelines within 3 years and recipients must report on land-use policy adoption. The bill funds pattern-book grants and planning/implementation pilots so jurisdictions can adopt pre-approved designs and streamline permitting. - Builders and manufactured housing sector: The law lets manufactured homes be built without a permanent chassis and requires new federal standards plus state certification within 1 year to ensure parity in financing, titling, and installation.

HR137 — TCJA Permanency Act

Rewrite of individual income tax rates would remake brackets, reshape family tax benefits, and change rules for pass‑through businesses and the alternative minimum tax. The bill would permanently set new tax tables with inflation adjustments, overhaul the child tax credit and standard deduction framework, and make numerous conforming changes across the tax code.

HR2570 — Maximum Pressure Act

Deny Iran all paths to a nuclear weapon. This bill would use sustained "maximum pressure" through expanded sanctions, tighter banking bans, and new watchlists to block Iran's nuclear, missile, and proxy networks.

HR6955 — Main Street Capital Access Act

Expand formation of new and rural banks by giving de novo institutions phased capital flexibility and clearer supervisory treatment. The bill would also tailor rules for small banks and index statutory thresholds to GDP. - New and rural de novo banks would get a three-year phase-in of federal capital rules and may request business-plan deviations during that window. The bill creates a Rural Community Depository Institution Leverage Ratio capped at 7.5% for the phase-in period and defines rural depositories as those with under $10 billion in assets in nonurban areas. - Small banks and credit unions would face lighter, more predictable examinations and reporting. Insured institutions with $6.0 billion or less in consolidated assets could move to limited-scope exams after a full-scope review. The Community Bank Leverage Ratio qualifying threshold rises to $15.0 billion and the small holding company asset limit rises to $25.0 billion. - Regulators, depositors, and markets would see tighter rules for supervisory transparency and appeals. The bill would require objective CAMELS criteria, create an independent examination review board with a 60-day appeal window, ban supervisory actions based on "reputational risk," and exempt merger competition review for deals that produce firms under $10.0 billion while indexing many thresholds to GDP.

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.