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H.R. 2870 — Working Families Flexibility Act of 2025

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Working Families Flexibility Act — would clear the House (90%) but only 2% to ever get the vote.

2%
reaches a floor vote
×
97%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
7%
survives downstream
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<1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 90% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 2% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 278 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 195–409 (quartiles 213–360). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the House would take it up; the branches:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
passage38% 253 [190–381] 84%
suspension62% 293 [205–412] 93%

Receipts

Sponsor: Mary E. Miller (R). Latest action (2026-02-12): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 422.
Full record: Congress.gov.

Forecast run predict-20260606T193507Z · models member-vote-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 + passage-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 · conditional whip forecasts for the Senate run at moderate confidence (why).