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H.R. 4216 — Made-in-America Defense Act

7%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate passed_one_chamber

Made-in-America Defense Act — through the House, now needs 60 in the Senate: P(≥60) 42% puts enactment at 7%.

passed the House
7%
downstream: Senate + President
=
7%
becomes law

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 62 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 42–93 (quartiles 52–77). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 42% (simple-majority P = 91%).

By floor procedure

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

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
conference19% 64 [40–94] 90%
passage81% 62 [42–92] 91%

Receipts

Sponsor: Sheri Biggs (R). Latest action (2025-09-03): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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).