Friday, September 11, 2026
Day 600
2 documented wins
Disaster tax relief made certain
The win
The same day he signed H.R. 5366, the Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act. It extends and codifies the federal deduction for qualified disaster-related personal casualty losses and the exclusion from income of qualified wildfire relief payments.
For Americans
A family that lost a house to fire or flood should not need a one-year patch to deduct the wreckage. Making the deduction certain is how a rebuilt kitchen is not also a tax surprise.
Stop Secret Spending Act signed
The win
Trump signed H.R. 2069, the Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025. It extends federal spending-transparency rules to other-transaction agreements and tightens related standards, oversight, and reporting.
For Americans
OTAs were the side door around ordinary contract posting. Putting them on the same transparency stack is how a taxpayer sees the invoice, not just the press release.