Defense of Marriage Act is actually an exception. The people supporting it honestly thought it was defending marriage, and the supportive public knew exactly what it did.
It passed with a veto proof majority a few weeks before a presidential election, received tons of press, and nobody was confused about what it did.
Whereas the Inflation Reduction Act had absolutely nothing to do with reducing inflation.
Seems arbitrary. There is nothing about that act that even borders on defending marriage, and people supporting it know that. It's a comic misnomer.
If it had been called the “Support Healthcare for Veterans Act” or even “Interstate Marriage Consistency Act” it would have been dubious.
But the 70% of Americans who opposed gay marriage correctly understood its meaning, as did the gay rights activists who saw gay marriage as unobtainable.
This wasn’t a confusing or misleading title, as is evidenced by the fact that nobody was confused or misled.