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H.R. 8595 — National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027

<1%becomes law high confidencepending: House on_calendar

National Security, Department of State, and Related Program… — must-pass class. On the calendar, quiet for 37 days; the <1% reflects timing risk, not whether something passes.

<1%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
16%
survives downstream
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<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 309 yea of 430 voting; 90% interval 205–416 (quartiles 227–388). 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% 267 [173–401] 84%
suspension62% 334 [215–418] 98%

Receipts

Sponsor: Mario Diaz-Balart (R). Latest action (2026-04-30): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 547.
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).