Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor · Needs Congress

Commission a congressional report on UI technical standards

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598 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“Congress should also develop a framework (through commission of a congressional report to serve as a blueprint) of technical standards on broader tech topics like usability, state agency cybersecurity postures, data taxonomy standardization, and/or identity verification standards.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Congress has commissioned no report to serve as a blueprint for unemployment insurance technical standards on usability, state cybersecurity posture, data taxonomy or identity verification. No bill of the 119th Congress requires one, and no such report appears among the reports required by the enacted appropriations acts.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — the unemployment insurance asks (#1645, #1646, #1647, #1663, #1664, #1665). (Id list corrected 2026-09-01, ticket 26 phase 2: this file omitted #1665, where the chapter log and the #1663, #1664 and #1665 files all carry the six. The cluster’s Executive Order 14332 bullet is #1665’s, so the log’s list is the right one.)
  • The Department has moved on adjacent UI technology objects without a congressional blueprint: a proposed rule on Federal-State UC data availability (2025-08-29, RIN 1205-AC11, now at Final Rule Stage), a proposed rule on recoupment of benefit overpayments (2026-07-06), and an announced work-search-requirements rulemaking (RIN 1205-AC31, NPRM 11/2026). All are agency rulemakings, not the congressional report the Quote asks for.
Action
create
Object
Framework of UI technical standards
ID
1646