Congress demands Pentagon threat assessment on violent antisemitism
H.R. 5011 — Violent Antisemitism Threat Assessment Act · Filed by Eugene Vindman (D-VA) · 5 cosponsors · Introduced Aug 19, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress by March 20, 2026, analyzing violent antisemitism as part of transnational extremist movements. The report must cover antisemitic ideologies, documented violent acts motivated by antisemitism, propaganda spreading these ideologies, and the threat such violence poses to U.S. citizens, military personnel, and American interests abroad. No new agency, funding, or enforcement mechanism is created.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a directive to the Secretary of Defense to produce and deliver a factual report on a specific national security threat. It is a transparency and accountability measure, not a regulatory, appropriations, or enforcement action.
What the text implies
- Report may inform future policy, enforcement priorities, or resource allocation by DoD and intelligence agencies, though the bill itself creates no such mandate.
- Public release of threat assessment could influence congressional debate on extremism, counterterrorism strategy, and international coordination on antisemitism.
- Report deadline (March 20, 2026) falls within the 119th Congress; findings may shape legislative responses in subsequent sessions.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill creates transparency and accountability by requiring the federal government to formally assess and document a documented security threat (violent antisemitism) and report findings to Congress and the public record. Citizens gain visibility into how the executive branch understands and prioritizes this threat; no rights are restricted, no costs are imposed, and no private parties are shielded from liability.
Named in the bill
Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, House Committee on Armed Services, Senate Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Armed Forces
Where it stands
5 cosponsors: 3 Republicans, 2 Democrats.
- Aug 19, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Aug 19, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 lobbying clients named this bill on 6 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $1,050,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 50 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 61% of bills with at least one filing.
Eugene Vindman, the sponsor, reported $867,778 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Anti-defamation League — $590,000 on 2 filings
- J Street — $340,000 on 2 filings
- Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc. — $120,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,562 characters) on Aug 13, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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