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S. 1518 — Strengthening America’s Turning Point Act

2%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate reported

Strengthening America’s Turning Point Act — reported and queued, quiet for 122 days; 6% to reach the floor, 2% to become law.

6%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
28%
survives downstream
=
2%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 41% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 6% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 60 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 26–93 (quartiles 50–72). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 41% (simple-majority P = 77%).

By floor procedure

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

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
conference5% 65 [32–95] 85%
passage95% 59 [26–93] 76%

Receipts

Sponsor: Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D). Latest action (2026-02-04): Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
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).