Yes, this is likely to fail, but one of the powers the minority has in a legislature is to introduce bills like this to remind people what the majority could have been doing
With republicans narrow majorities, it only takes a handful of defections to get things through. Doing stuff like this helps make more republicans squeamish and can help get those flips
This is what Democrats do; after republicans tear things down dems leave people behind in an attempt to compromise. In response to the anti trans rhetoric the dems abandoned them and thought it would win them the election. Now they abandon swaths of federal workers to likely fail at saving a few of them. Democrats will leave everyone but billionaires behind if the moment is right for it.