H.R. 5250 — To provide for the foreign assistance authority of the Department of State, and for other purposes.

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House reported

To provide for the foreign assistance authority of the Department of… — would clear the House (92%) but only 2% to ever get the vote.

reaches a floor vote

99%

passes if voted (stage model)

26%

survives downstream

<1%

becomes law

The gap: on the floor this would pass — 92% 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 310 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 204–416 (quartiles 231–391). 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%	264 [168–399]	81%
suspension	62%	338 [218–417]	99%

Receipts

Sponsor: Christopher H. Smith (R). Latest action (2025-09-18): Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 23.
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).