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H.R. 7723 — Safeguarding Taxpayer Dollars in Child Care Act of 2026

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

Safeguarding Taxpayer Dollars in Child Care Act — would clear the House (94%) but only 8% to ever get the vote.

8%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
6%
survives downstream
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<1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 94% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 8% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority

Projected 300 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 207–415 (quartiles 219–382). 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% 265 [204–397] 90%
suspension62% 322 [211–416] 97%

Receipts

Sponsor: Virginia Foxx (R). Latest action (2026-04-06): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 509.
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).