Skip to content

Launching December 2026

What’s in the bill that isn’t about the bill?

Porkbarrel.ai checks every section of a federal bill against the bill’s own title and official summary. Sections that don’t fit are shown word for word, with a link to the official text. Read it and judge for yourself.

What the site will be

A page for every bill we check, listing the sections that aren’t described by the bill’s title or official summary. Each one is quoted word for word, with a one-sentence reason and a link to the text on Congress.gov. An AI model checks each section and drafts each flag, and a person approves every flag before it’s published.

We plan to start with the year-end spending bills.

Newest federal law

H.R. 7022 · Public Law 119-136 · Signed October 22, 2026

Mystic Alerts Act

To provide for the transmission of emergency alerts by satellite, and for other purposes.

Official summary

This bill provides for wireless emergency alerts to be transmitted to mobile devices via satellite. (Currently, wireless emergency alerts are sent via terrestrial mobile networks to individual devices in geographically targeted areas. Commercial mobile service providers are not required to participate; only devices connected to a participating service provider’s network receive alerts.)

Under the bill, commercial mobile service providers that participate in the wireless emergency alerts system must give notice to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indicating whether they will transmit such alerts via satellite (in addition to sending alerts via terrestrial networks).

The FCC must establish technical standards and other regulations to enable satellite emergency alerts. Providers that opt to transmit emergency alerts via satellite must comply with such regulations.

If a provider elects not to transmit satellite alerts, the provider must give notice of that election to new and existing subscribers. Separately, mobile service subscribers may opt out of receiving satellite alerts.

The official summary was written for the bill as introduced in House (January 12, 2026).

Every section in the law (2)

  • Sec. 1 Short title
  • Sec. 2 Transmission of emergency alerts by satellite
Not checked yetOur first reviewed checks start in December.Read the full text on Congress.gov

Source: Congress.gov, checked October 31, 2026.

What a flag looks like

Fictional example · H.R. 0000 · Rural Broadband Expansion Act

Bill summary: Funds broadband service for rural households and schools.

Sec. 412. The Secretary of the Interior shall convey to the Harbor Point Marina Authority, without consideration, all right, title and interest in the parcel described in subsection (b).
Doesn’t fit: this section transfers federal land to a marina authority, which isn’t described by the bill’s title or official summary.

How it works

  1. Step 1

    We read the bill

    Bill text, titles and the official summary come straight from Congress.gov.

  2. Step 2

    We check every section

    Each section is compared with the bill’s own title and summary. Does it fit, or not?

  3. Step 3

    A person reviews every flag

    Nothing is published until a reviewer approves it. Every flag shows the exact text.

Party-blind by design

Same test for every bill, whoever wrote it. Read our neutrality standard.

  • The checker is never told who sponsored a bill, their party or their state.
  • Every bill gets the same test, and which bills we check is set by a fixed rule.
  • We’ll publish the exact instructions, the test set and a monthly party audit.

Our funding rule: readers and nonpartisan foundations only. We take no money from political parties, campaigns, PACs or advocacy groups.