H.R. 4249 — Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Legislative Branch Appropriations Act — must-pass class. On the calendar, quiet for 341 days; the <1% reflects timing risk, not whether something passes.

<1%

reaches a floor vote

99%

passes if voted (stage model)

25%

survives downstream

<1%

becomes law

The gap: on the floor this would pass — 93% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: <1% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 299 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 206–415 (quartiles 218–391). 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:

Procedure	Likelihood	Projected yea	Passes
passage	38%	259 [189–381]	86%
suspension	62%	323 [212–417]	98%

Receipts

Sponsor: David G. Valadao (R). Latest action (2025-06-30): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 144.
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).