H.R. 5446 requires the President to obtain congressional approval before imposing tariffs on imported food products and agricultural inputs.
No CBO estimate yet.
Status: Referred to House Cmte on Ways & Means.
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Pass or Trash turns the bills moving through the U.S. Congress into plain English, shows what each one does to the federal deficit in official CBO numbers, and lets you vote. One bill a day, in your feed.
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Why it exists
Four ways it pulls government into focus
Visibility, legibility, cost, and a vote — the things that turn a distant institution into something you can actually follow.
Congress, made legible
Hundreds of bills move every week in language built to be ignored. We rewrite each one in a sentence a human can actually read.
Government in the open
Pulled straight from Congress.gov — the official record — so you see what's really advancing, not what made the news cycle.
The cost, in real numbers
Every scored bill shows its hit to the federal deficit using official CBO estimates — and what that works out to per household.
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Each post is a poll: Pass or Trash. A daily, low-friction habit that turns watching government into taking part in it.
How it works
From the House floor to your vote in a day
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We watch the floor
Every day we scan the bills most recently acted on in the U.S. House and Senate, pulled from the official Congress.gov API.
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We translate + price it
The bill gets summarized in plain English, and if the Congressional Budget Office has scored it, we attach the deficit impact.
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You pass or trash it
It posts to X as a poll. You read it in ten seconds and vote. That's the whole loop — repeated, one bill at a time.
The feed
One bill a day, put to a vote
“Hot or Not for what Congress is actually voting on. Once a day, plain English. Debt impact listed where possible. Non-partisan.”
H.R. 640 repeals the federal excise tax on certain chemicals and chemical substances that currently funds environmental contamination cleanup.
No CBO estimate yet.
Status: Referred to House Cmte on Ways & Means.
S. 3304 requires major federal health programs to cover medically necessary foods and related supplies for individuals with certain digestive or metabolic disorders.
No CBO estimate yet.
Status: Referred to the Cmte on Finance.
Bills currently before the 119th Congress. Voting happens in the daily polls on @passortrash.
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How a bill becomes law
The real path from introduction to the President's desk — and where most bills quietly die.
Read guide →The federal deficit, explained
Deficit vs. debt, why the 10-year window matters, and how a single bill moves the number.
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Who the Congressional Budget Office is, and why their number is the one to trust.
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