Treat trade-displaced workers the same as all other displaced workers

Research notes

• Contested Recommendation from “The Case for Free Trade”; requires Congress.
• pre_satisfied: true under §3b and ADR 0003. The ask is that trade-displaced workers be eligible for the same benefits as anyone else, “no more and no less”. The special program that gave them more was terminated by operation of statute on 2022-07-01, before the window opened, so the Status stays not started — this administration did nothing to bring the state about — and the item leaves Still to come.
• The flag is not being used because the ask looks unlikely: it is used because the object is demonstrably in the asked-for state, evidenced in the note. On the contested / pre-satisfied collision, src/lib/tracker.ts gives contested priority, so the item is counted once, in the Contested bucket.
• Confirmed 2026-09-01 (ticket 26 phase 2, pre_satisfied batch), both flags kept. This is the corpus’s only item carrying contested and pre_satisfied together, and it is the case GLOSSARY.md’s Set-aside entry now names: a Recommendation the site asserts no ask for cannot also be one it says was already satisfied, so contested wins. Checked against src/lib/tracker.ts aside(), which returns contested first; nothing in the code needed changing. The ask is a state-of-the-world ask (“should be eligible for the same benefits …, no more and no less”), not a preserve or continue ask, so the amendment’s exclusion does not reach it, and the special benefits had lapsed by operation of statute on 2022-07-01.
• The statute itself is pre-window and so cannot go in history under the evidence gate. It is the Termination Date note to 19 U.S.C. 2271, read at https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2271&num=0&edition=prelim — “No trade adjustment assistance, vouchers, allowances, or other payments or benefits may be provided under this part after June 30, 2022 … see section 285 of Pub. L. 93-618, as modified by section 406(a)(7) of Pub. L. 114-27”. The two in-window records that confirm the position held are in history.
• Same page cluster as #2098 (done) and #2115 (not started).
• Checked 2026-09-03 (read-queue ticket 04) against DOL’s own Trade Adjustment Assistance page (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/tradeact), opened for #2098. It supports the flag in the strong form §3b’s pre_satisfied rule requires — nothing in the ask remains outstanding. DOL states that since 2022-07-01 it may not certify any worker separated after 2022-06-30, so a worker displaced by trade inside the evidence window is served through the ordinary dislocated-worker system on the same terms as anyone else. Both flags kept; no Status event added, because the read records the state continuing rather than an action taken.
• Checked 2026-09-06 (read-queue ticket 06, Already-true sweep): flag stands. The object would be undone by Congress reauthorizing Trade Adjustment Assistance, restoring benefits available only to trade-displaced workers. It has not: S. 1449 and H.R. 7805 are in committee, and DOL’s own Trade Act page (read 2026-09-03) states it may certify no worker separated after 2022-06-30. The two in-window records run the same way as the ask - USTR reporting the programs lapsed, EDA removing the TAA for Firms regulations - which is the pre-window truth reinforced, a change of degree. The contested flag is unaffected and still takes priority in the Roll-up either way.