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S. 4125 — Stop Presidential Embezzlement Act

0%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate on_calendar

Stop Presidential Embezzlement Act — on the calendar, quiet for 80 days; 0% to reach the floor, 0% to become law.

0%
reaches a floor vote
×
99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
19%
survives downstream
=
0%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 46% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 0% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 62 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 33–94 (quartiles 51–75). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 46% (simple-majority P = 82%).

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% 63 [35–95] 86%
passage95% 62 [32–94] 81%

Receipts

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D). Latest action (2026-03-18): Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 360.
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).