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S. 2354 — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026

<1%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate on_calendar

Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriat… — must-pass class. On the calendar, quiet for 324 days; the <1% reflects timing risk, not whether something passes.

<1%
reaches a floor vote
×
97%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
56%
survives downstream
=
<1%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 49% 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
60 (cloture)

Projected 65 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 44–94 (quartiles 52–82). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 49% (simple-majority P = 93%).

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% 70 [49–97] 95%
passage95% 65 [44–93] 92%

Receipts

Sponsor: Jerry Moran (R). Latest action (2025-07-17): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 122.
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).