Bill expands pay for veterans and opens home loans to Guard members
H.R. 6047 — Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2025 · Filed by Tom Barrett (R-MI) · 14 cosponsors · Introduced Nov 17, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill raises disability and survivor pay for veterans. It adds $833.33 monthly for veterans needing help with daily living. Future survivor payments will grow with Social Security increases. The bill changes VA home loan fees. It lets National Guard and Reserve members get VA home loans. Members need as little as 14 days of service.
Who it affects
Veterans and their families get more money and better access to home loans. National Guard and Reserve members can now borrow for homes. The bill costs the government more money.
One thing to notice
Guard and Reserve members with only 14 days of service can get VA home loans. They pay a higher fee than other veterans.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
14 cosponsors: 14 Republicans.
- Nov 17, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Nov 17, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- Dec 3, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee Hearings Held”
- Feb 12, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Feb 12, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 13 - 10”
- May 21, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 235 - 179 (Roll no. 191).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
7 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 10 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $1,444,667 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 13 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 86% of bills with any report.
Tom Barrett, who sponsored the bill, received $1,101,876 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Military Officers Association of America — $854,387 in 1 report
- Votevets Action Fund, Inc. — $280,280 in 2 reports
- Broker Action Coalition — $160,000 in 2 reports
- Rocket Lp — $50,000 in 1 report
- Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. — $40,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- VA home loan — A loan the government backs to help veterans buy homes
- National Guard and Reserve — Military members who serve part-time and can be called to active duty
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (7,154 characters) on Jul 11, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 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 2026-09-19.
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