Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 15 (Thursday, January 22, 2026)

[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 15 (Thursday, January 22, 2026)]
[House]
[Pages H1299-H1317]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026

Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1014, I call up
the bill (H.R. 7147) making further consolidated appropriations for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, and ask
for its immediate consideration in the House.

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The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1014, the
amendment specified in section 7 of House Resolution 1014 is adopted
and the bill, as amended, is considered read.
The text of the bill, as amended, is as follows:

H.R. 7147

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums in this Act are appropriated, out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2026.

TITLE I

DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT, INTELLIGENCE, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, AND
OVERSIGHT

Office of the Secretary and Executive Management

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary and
for executive management for operations and support,
$316,295,000, which shall be for the purposes and in the
amounts specified in the ``Final Bill'' column for Office of
the Secretary and Executive Management, Operations and
Support, in the ``Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act, 2026'' table in the explanatory statement
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of
this consolidated Act), of which $14,050,000 of amounts made
available for Management and Oversight, Office of Health
Security and $8,000,000 of amounts made available for Office
of Strategy, Policy, and Plans shall remain available until
September 30, 2027: Provided, That $5,000,000 shall be
withheld from obligation until the Secretary submits to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate responses to all questions for the record for
each hearing on the fiscal year 2027 budget submission for
the Department of Homeland Security held by such Committees
prior to July 1: Provided further, That not to exceed
$15,000 shall be for official reception and representation
expenses.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary and
for executive management for procurement, construction, and
improvements, $8,911,000, to remain available until September
30, 2028.

Management Directorate

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Management Directorate for
operations and support, including vehicle fleet
modernization, $1,690,380,000, which shall be for the
purposes and in the amounts specified in the ``Final Bill''
column for Management Directorate, Operations and Support, in
the ``Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act,
2026'' table in the explanatory statement described in
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this
consolidated Act): Provided, That not to exceed $2,000 shall
be for official reception and representation expenses.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of the Management Directorate for
procurement, construction, and improvements, $58,106,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2028.

federal protective service

The revenues and collections of security fees credited to
this account shall be available until expended for necessary
expenses related to the protection of federally owned and
leased buildings and for the operations of the Federal
Protective Service.

Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Awareness

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Office of Intelligence and
Analysis and the Office of Homeland Security Situational
Awareness for operations and support, $340,819,000, of which
$121,274,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2027:
Provided, That not to exceed $3,825 shall for be official
reception and representation expenses and not to exceed
$2,000,000 is available for facility needs associated with
secure space at fusion centers, including improvements to
buildings.

Office of Inspector General

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General
for operations and support, $257,599,000, of which
$20,000,000 shall be for additional inspections and oversight
of detention facilities and shall remain available until
September 30, 2027, and of which $12,814,000 shall be for
oversight of the execution of funds provided in Public Law
119-21: Provided, That not to exceed $300,000 may be used
for certain confidential operational expenses, including the
payment of informants, to be expended at the direction of the
Inspector General.

Administrative Provisions

Sec. 101. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
submit a report not later than October 15, 2026, to the
Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security
listing all grants and contracts awarded by any means other
than full and open competition during fiscal years 2025 or
2026.
(b) The Inspector General shall review the report required
by subsection (a) to assess departmental compliance with
applicable laws and regulations and report the results of
that review to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate not later than February 15,
2027.
Sec. 102. (a) Not later than 30 days after the last day of
each month, the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of
Homeland Security shall submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
a monthly budget and staffing report that includes total
obligations of the Department for that month and for the
fiscal year at the appropriation and program, project, and
activity levels, by the source year of the appropriation.
(b) The initial staffing report submitted pursuant to
subsection (a) shall be the baseline for which the Department
of Homeland Security may increase or decrease staffing levels
for any program, project, or activity pursuant to section
503(a)(4) of this Act.
Sec. 103. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, in
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall notify
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate of any proposed transfers of
funds available under section 9705(g)(4)(B) of title 31,
United States Code, from the Department of the Treasury
Forfeiture Fund to any agency within the Department of
Homeland Security.
(b) None of the funds identified for such a transfer may be
obligated until the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate are notified of the
proposed transfer.
Sec. 104. All official costs associated with the use of
Government aircraft by Department of Homeland Security
personnel to support official travel of the Secretary and the
Deputy Secretary shall be paid from amounts made available
for the Office of the Secretary.
Sec. 105. (a) The Under Secretary for Management shall
brief the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate not later than 45 days after
the end of each fiscal quarter on all Level 1 and Level 2
acquisition programs on the Master Acquisition Oversight List
between Acquisition Decision Event and Full Operational
Capability, including programs that have been removed from
such list during the preceding quarter.
(b) For each such program, the briefing described in
subsection (a) shall include--
(1) a description of the purpose of the program, including
the capabilities being acquired and the component(s)
sponsoring the acquisition;
(2) the total number of units, as appropriate, to be
acquired annually until procurement is complete under the
current acquisition program baseline;
(3) the Acquisition Review Board status, including--
(A) the current acquisition phase by increment, as
applicable;
(B) the date of the most recent review; and
(C) whether the program has been paused or is in breach
status;
(4) a comparison between the initial Department-approved
acquisition program baseline cost, schedule, and performance
thresholds and objectives and the program's current such
thresholds and objectives, if applicable;
(5) the lifecycle cost estimate, adjusted for comparison to
the Future Years Homeland Security Program, including--
(A) the confidence level for the estimate;
(B) the fiscal years included in the estimate;
(C) a breakout of the estimate for the prior five years,
the current year, and the budget year;
(D) a breakout of the estimate by appropriation account or
other funding source; and
(E) a description of and rationale for any changes to the
estimate as compared to the previously approved baseline, as
applicable, and during the prior fiscal year;
(6) a summary of the findings of any independent
verification and validation of the items to be acquired or an
explanation for why no such verification and validation has
been performed;
(7) a table displaying the obligation of all program funds
by prior fiscal year, the estimated obligation of funds for
the current fiscal year, and an estimate for the planned
carryover of funds into the subsequent fiscal year;
(8) a listing of prime contractors and major
subcontractors; and
(9) narrative descriptions of risks to cost, schedule, or
performance that could result in a program breach if not
successfully mitigated.
(c) The Under Secretary for Management shall submit each
approved Acquisition Decision Memorandum for programs
described in this section to the Committees on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives and the Senate not later than
five business days after the date of approval of such
memorandum by the Under Secretary for Management or the
designee of the Under Secretary for Management.
Sec. 106. (a) None of the funds made available to the
Department of Homeland Security in this Act or prior
appropriations Acts may be obligated for any new pilot or
demonstration unless the component or office carrying out
such pilot or demonstration has documented the information
described in subsection (c).
(b) Prior to the obligation of any such funds made
available for ``Operations and

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Support'' for a new pilot or demonstration, the Under
Secretary for Management shall provide a report to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate on the information described in subsection
(c).
(c) The information required under subsections (a) and (b)
for a pilot or demonstration shall include the following--
(1) documented objectives that are well-defined and
measurable;
(2) an assessment methodology that details--
(A) the type and source of assessment data;
(B) the methods for, and frequency of, collecting such
data; and
(C) how such data will be analyzed; and
(3) an implementation plan, including milestones, cost
estimates, and implementation schedules, including a
projected end date.
(d) Not later than 90 days after the date of completion of
a pilot or demonstration described in subsection (e), the
Under Secretary for Management shall provide a report to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate detailing lessons learned, actual costs, any
planned expansion or continuation of the pilot or
demonstration, and any planned transition of such pilot or
demonstration into an enduring program or operation.
(e) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or
demonstration program is a study, demonstration, experimental
program, or trial that--
(1) is a small-scale, short-term experiment conducted in
order to evaluate feasibility, duration, costs, or adverse
events, and improve upon the design of an effort prior to
implementation of a larger scale effort; and
(2) uses more than 10 full-time equivalents or obligates,
or proposes to obligate, $5,000,000 or more, but does not
include congressionally directed programs or enhancements and
does not include programs that were in operation as of the
date of the enactment of this Act.
(f) For the purposes of this section, a pilot or
demonstration does not include any testing, evaluation, or
initial deployment phase executed under a procurement
contract for the acquisition of information technology
services or systems, or any pilot or demonstration carried
out by a non-Federal recipient under any financial assistance
agreement funded by the Department.
Sec. 107. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act may be used by the Office of
Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland
Security to conduct a covered activity (as defined by section
6303 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2025 (division F of Public Law 118-159)).
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting
or superseding the authority of any official within the
Department of Homeland Security to conduct legal, privacy,
civil rights, or civil liberties oversight of the
intelligence activities of the Office of Intelligence and
Analysis.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit,
or to limit the authority of, personnel of the Office of
Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland
Security from sharing intelligence information with, or
receiving information from--
(1) foreign, State, local, tribal, or territorial
governments (or any agency or subdivision thereof);
(2) the private sector; or
(3) other elements of the Federal Government, including the
components of the Department of Homeland Security.
Sec. 108. (a) The Inspector General shall report to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate on a quarterly basis on oversight of the
funding provided to the Department in Public Law 119-21.
(b) The quarterly report required in subsection (a) shall
include--
(1) a review of the spend plans for every program, project,
or activity funded by the Department under Public Law 119-21,
including the current status of obligated funds compared to
spend plan projections; and
(2) a summary of the audits being conducted on the
Department's contracting, procurement, and acquisition
activities resulting from Public Law 119-21.
(c) Beginning one year after the date of enactment of this
Act, and annually thereafter, the Inspector General shall
submit a comprehensive report to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
on the audits, inspections, and evaluations conducted on
funds provided and activities undertaken in Public Law 119-21
and shall also provide recommendations in such report on ways
to improve effectiveness and efficiency and prevent waste,
fraud, and abuse of such programs and funds.
Sec. 109. (a) For an additional amount for ``Office of the
Secretary and Executive Management--Operations and Support--
Office of the Secretary'', $20,000,000, for the procurement,
deployment, and operations of body-worn cameras for agents
and officers performing enforcement activities under 8 U.S.C.
1101 et seq.
(b) Within 30 days of the date of enactment of this Act,
the Secretary shall provide the Committees on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives and the Senate a spend plan
for the execution of funding provided in subsection (a).

TITLE II

SECURITY, ENFORCEMENT, AND INVESTIGATIONS

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

operations and support

(including transfer of funds)

For necessary expenses of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection for operations and support, including the
transportation of unaccompanied alien minors; the provision
of air and marine support to Federal, State, local, and
international agencies in the enforcement or administration
of laws enforced by the Department of Homeland Security; at
the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the
provision of such support to Federal, State, and local
agencies in other law enforcement and emergency humanitarian
efforts; the purchase and lease of up to 7,500 (6,500 for
replacement only) police-type vehicles; the purchase,
maintenance, or operation of marine vessels, aircraft, and
unmanned aerial systems; and contracting with individuals for
personal services abroad; $17,727,974,000; of which
$3,274,000 shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust
Fund for administrative expenses related to the collection of
the Harbor Maintenance Fee pursuant to section 9505(c)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9505(c)(3)) and
notwithstanding section 1511(e)(1) of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 551(e)(1)); of which $550,000,000 shall
be available until September 30, 2027; and of which such sums
as become available in the Customs User Fee Account, except
sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the Consolidated
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C.
58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that account: Provided,
That not to exceed $34,425 shall be for official reception
and representation expenses: Provided further, That not to
exceed $150,000 shall be available for payment for rental
space in connection with preclearance operations: Provided
further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 shall be for awards of
compensation to informants, to be accounted for solely under
the certificate of the Secretary of Homeland Security:
Provided further, That not to exceed $2,500,000 may be
transferred to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the
maintenance and repair of roads on Native American
reservations used by the U.S. Border Patrol.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection for procurement, construction, and improvements,
including procurement of marine vessels, aircraft, and
unmanned aerial systems, $222,886,000, which shall be for the
purposes and in the amounts specified in the ``Final Bill''
column for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Procurement,
Construction, and Improvements, in the ``Department of
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026'' table in the
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter
preceding division A of this consolidated Act), of which--
(1) amounts made available for Border Security Assets and
Infrastructure, Trade and Travel Assets and Infrastructure,
Integrated Operations Assets and Infrastructure, Mission
Support Assets and Infrastructure, and Radiological Detection
Systems shall remain available until September 30, 2028; and
(2) amounts made available for Construction and Facility
Improvements shall remain available until September 30, 2030.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

operations and support

For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement for operations and support, including the
purchase and lease of up to 3,790 (2,350 for replacement
only) police-type vehicles; overseas vetted units; and
maintenance, minor construction, and minor leasehold
improvements at owned and leased facilities; $10,036,362,000,
which shall be for the purposes and in the amounts specified
in the ``Final Bill'' column for U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Operations and Support, in the ``Department of
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026'' table in the
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter
preceding division A of this consolidated Act), of which--
(1) of the amounts made available for Homeland Security
Investigations--
(A) not less than $6,000,000 shall remain available until
expended for efforts to enforce laws against forced child
labor;
(B) $46,696,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2027;
(C) not less than $3,000,000 is for paid apprenticeships
for participants in the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative
Child-Rescue Corps;
(D) not less than $15,000,000 shall be available for
investigation of intellectual property rights violations,
including operation of the National Intellectual Property
Rights Coordination Center;
(E) $15,000,000 shall be available until expended for
conducting special operations under section 3131 of the
Customs Enforcement Act of 1986 (19 U.S.C. 2801); and
(F) not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be for awards of
compensation to informants, to be accounted for solely under
the certificate of the Secretary of Homeland Security;
(2) of the amounts made available for Enforcement and
Removal Operations, not to exceed $11,216,000 shall be
available to fund or reimburse other Federal agencies for the
costs associated with the care, maintenance, and repatriation
of smuggled aliens unlawfully present in the United States;
and

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(3) of the amounts made available under this heading,
$11,475 shall be for official reception and representation
expenses.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement for procurement, construction, and improvements,
$5,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2028.

Transportation Security Administration

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Transportation Security
Administration for operations and support, $10,635,434,000,
of which $300,000,000 shall remain available until September
30, 2027: Provided, That not to exceed $7,650 shall be for
official reception and representation expenses: Provided
further, That security service fees authorized under section
44940 of title 49, United States Code, shall be credited to
this appropriation as offsetting collections and shall be
available only for aviation security: Provided further, That
the sum appropriated under this heading from the general fund
shall be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such
offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 2026
so as to result in a final fiscal year appropriation from the
general fund estimated at not more than $7,605,434,000.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of the Transportation Security
Administration for procurement, construction, and
improvements, $330,230,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2028.

research and development

For necessary expenses of the Transportation Security
Administration for research and development, $24,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2027.

Coast Guard

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for operations
and support including the Coast Guard Reserve; purchase or
lease of not to exceed 30 passenger motor vehicles, which
shall be for replacement only; purchase or lease of small
boats for contingent and emergent requirements (at a unit
cost of not more than $700,000) and repairs and service-life
replacements, not to exceed a total of $31,000,000; purchase,
lease, or improvements of boats necessary for overseas
deployments and activities; payments pursuant to section 156
of Public Law 97-377 (42 U.S.C. 402 note; 96 Stat. 1920); and
recreation and welfare; $11,272,401,000, of which
$530,000,000 shall be for defense-related activities; of
which $24,500,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill
Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section
1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C.
2712(a)(5)); of which $20,000,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2028; of which $25,335,000 shall remain
available until September 30, 2030, for environmental
compliance and restoration; and of which $400,000,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2027, which shall only
be available for depot level maintenance: Provided, That not
to exceed $23,000 shall be for official reception and
representation expenses.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for procurement,
construction, and improvements, including aids to navigation,
shore facilities (including facilities at Department of
Defense installations used by the Coast Guard), and vessels
and aircraft, including equipment related thereto,
$991,872,000, to remain available until September 30, 2030;
of which $20,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill
Liability Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of section
1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C.
2712(a)(5)).

research and development

For necessary expenses of the Coast Guard for research and
development; and for maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and
operation of facilities and equipment; $6,763,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2028, of which $500,000 shall
be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to carry
out the purposes of section 1012(a)(5) of the Oil Pollution
Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2712(a)(5)): Provided, That there may
be credited to and used for the purposes of this
appropriation funds received from State and local
governments, other public authorities, private sources, and
foreign countries for expenses incurred for research,
development, testing, and evaluation.

retired pay

For retired pay, including the payment of obligations
otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this
purpose, payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family
Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, payment for career
status bonuses, payment of continuation pay under section 356
of title 37, United States Code, concurrent receipts, combat-
related special compensation, and payments for medical care
of retired personnel and their dependents under chapter 55 of
title 10, United States Code, $1,249,000,000, to remain
available until expended.

United States Secret Service

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the United States Secret Service
for operations and support, including purchase of not to
exceed 652 vehicles for police-type use; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; purchase of motorcycles made in the United
States; hire of aircraft; rental of buildings in the District
of Columbia; fencing, lighting, guard booths, and other
facilities on private or other property not in Government
ownership or control, as may be necessary to perform
protective functions; conduct of and participation in
firearms matches; presentation of awards; conduct of
behavioral research in support of protective intelligence and
operations; payment in advance for commercial accommodations
as may be necessary to perform protective functions; and
payment, without regard to section 5702 of title 5, United
States Code, of subsistence expenses of employees who are on
protective missions, whether at or away from their duty
stations; $3,128,304,000, of which $96,299,000 shall remain
available until September 30, 2027, and of which $20,000,000
shall remain available until September 30, 2028; and of which
$6,000,000 shall be for a grant for activities related to
investigations of missing and exploited children; and of
which up to $33,000,000 may be for calendar year 2025 premium
pay in excess of the annual equivalent of the limitation on
the rate of pay contained in section 5547(a) of title 5,
United States Code, pursuant to section 2 of the Overtime Pay
for Protective Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), as
last amended by Public Law 118-38: Provided, That not to
exceed $19,125 shall be for official reception and
representation expenses: Provided further, That not to
exceed $100,000 shall be to provide technical assistance and
equipment to foreign law enforcement organizations in
criminal investigations within the jurisdiction of the United
States Secret Service.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of the United States Secret Service
for procurement, construction, and improvements,
$118,517,000, of which $96,167,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2028, and of which $22,350,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2030.

research and development

For necessary expenses of the United States Secret Service
for research and development, $3,250,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2027.

Administrative Provisions

Sec. 201. Section 201 of the Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2018 (division F of Public Law
115-141), related to overtime compensation limitations, shall
apply with respect to funds made available in this Act in the
same manner as such section applied to funds made available
in that Act, except that ``fiscal year 2026'' shall be
substituted for ``fiscal year 2018''.
Sec. 202. Funding made available under the headings ``U.S.
Customs and Border Protection--Operations and Support'' and
``U.S. Customs and Border Protection--Procurement,
Construction, and Improvements'' shall be available for
customs expenses when necessary to maintain operations and
prevent adverse personnel actions in Puerto Rico and the U.S.
Virgin Islands, in addition to funding provided by sections
740 and 1406i of title 48, United States Code.
Sec. 203. As authorized by section 601(b) of the United
States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
(Public Law 112-42), fees collected from passengers arriving
from Canada, Mexico, or an adjacent island pursuant to
section 13031(a)(5) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c(a)(5)) shall be
available until expended.
Sec. 204. (a) For an additional amount for ``U.S. Customs
and Border Protection--Operations and Support'', $31,000,000,
to remain available until expended, to be reduced by amounts
collected and credited to this appropriation in fiscal year
2026 from amounts authorized to be collected by section
286(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1356(i)), section 10412 of the Farm Security and Rural
Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 8311), and section 817 of
the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015
(Public Law 114-125), or other such authorizing language.
(b) To the extent that amounts realized from such
collections exceed $31,000,000, those amounts in excess of
$31,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation, to
remain available until expended.
Sec. 205. None of the funds made available in this Act for
U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be used to prevent an
individual not in the business of importing a prescription
drug (within the meaning of section 801(g) of the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) from importing a prescription
drug from Canada that complies with the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act: Provided, That this section shall apply
only to individuals transporting on their person a personal-
use quantity of the prescription drug, not to exceed a 90-day
supply: Provided further, That the prescription drug may not
be--
(1) a controlled substance, as defined in section 102 of
the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802); or
(2) a biological product, as defined in section 351 of the
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262).
Sec. 206. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
none of the funds provided in this or any other Act shall be
used to approve a waiver of the navigation and vessel-
inspection laws pursuant to section 501(b) of title 46,
United States Code, for the transportation of crude oil
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the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the Secretary of
Homeland Security, after consultation with the Secretaries of
the Departments of Energy and Transportation and
representatives from the United States flag maritime
industry, takes adequate measures to ensure the use of United
States flag vessels.
(b) The Secretary shall notify the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of
the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation of the Senate within two business
days of any request for waivers of navigation and vessel-
inspection laws pursuant to section 501(b) of title 46,
United States Code, with respect to such transportation, and
the disposition of such requests.
Sec. 207. (a) Beginning on the date of enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall not--
(1) establish, collect, or otherwise impose any new border
crossing fee on individuals crossing the Southern border or
the Northern border at a land port of entry; or
(2) conduct any study relating to the imposition of a
border crossing fee.
(b) In this section, the term ``border crossing fee'' means
a fee that every pedestrian, cyclist, and driver and
passenger of a private motor vehicle is required to pay for
the privilege of crossing the Southern border or the Northern
border at a land port of entry.
Sec. 208. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and
Border Protection shall submit an expenditure plan for any
amounts made available for ``U.S. Customs and Border
Protection--Procurement, Construction, and Improvements'' in
this Act and prior Acts to the Committees on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
(b) No such amounts provided in this Act may be obligated
prior to the submission of such plan.
Sec. 209. (a) Funds made available in this Act may be used
to alter operations within the National Targeting Center of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, provided by
previous appropriations Acts that remain available for
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided
from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States
derived by the collection of fees available to the components
funded by this Act, may be used to reduce anticipated or
planned vetting operations at existing locations unless
specifically authorized by a statute enacted after the date
of enactment of this Act.
Sec. 210. None of the funds made available for Border
Security Assets and Infrastructure under the heading ``U.S.
Customs and Border Protection--Procurement, Construction, and
Improvements'' in this Act or prior appropriations Acts shall
be used for the procurement or deployment of surveillance
systems that are not autonomous, as such term is defined in
section 90004 of Public Law 119-21.
Sec. 211. The Secretary shall ensure that the November 30,
2021, policy statement from U.S. Customs and Border
Protection titled ``Policy Statement and Required Actions
Regarding Pregnant, Postpartum, Nursing Individuals, and
Infants in Custody,'' or substantively similar standards of
treatment developed in consultation with maternal and
pediatric health providers and experts, are in effect and are
fully implemented to safeguard the health, safety, and rights
of pregnant women in U.S. Customs and Border Protection
custody.
Sec. 212. None of the funds provided under the heading
``U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement--Operations and
Support'' may be used to continue a delegation of law
enforcement authority authorized under section 287(g) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)) if the
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General determines
that the terms of the agreement governing the delegation of
authority have been materially violated.
Sec. 213. (a) None of the funds provided under the heading
``U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement--Operations and
Support'' may be used to continue any contract for the
provision of detention services if the two most recent
overall performance evaluations received by the contracted
facility are less than ``adequate'' or the equivalent median
score in any subsequent performance evaluation system.
(b) The performance evaluations referenced in subsection
(a) shall be conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Office of Professional Responsibility.
Sec. 214. Without regard to the limitation as to time and
condition of section 503(d) of this Act, the Secretary may
reprogram within and transfer funds to ``U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement--Operations and Support'' as necessary to
ensure the detention of aliens prioritized for removal.
Sec. 215. The reports required to be submitted under
section 216 of the Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act, 2021 (division F of Public Law 116-260)
shall continue to be submitted semimonthly and each matter
required to be included in such reports by such section 216
shall apply in the same manner and to the same extent during
the period described in such section 216.
Sec. 216. The terms and conditions of sections 216 and 217
of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act,
2020 (division D of Public Law 116-93) shall apply to this
Act.
Sec. 217. (a) Not later than 30 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Director of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement shall provide a briefing and submit an
initial, written obligation plan for funding provided under
the heading ``U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement'' in
this or any other Act, including prior Acts, to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate, which shall--
(1) be delineated by month, level II program, project, and
activity, and pay and non-pay requirements;
(2) incorporate and delineate all funding sources available
to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to include
unobligated carryover balances and fees; and
(3) contain data-driven assumptions for major contract
costs, projected personnel levels, and operational and policy
considerations.
(b) The Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement shall provide monthly briefings and written
updates to the plan required in subsection (a), which shall
include, at a minimum, the following information as of the
conclusion of the preceding month--
(1) actual obligations and expenditures, including prior
year;
(2) carryover from prior year unobligated balances;
(3) resource projections for the remainder of the fiscal
year;
(4) payroll projections for the remainder of the fiscal
year, based on forecasted gains and losses;
(5) identification of any contracts with a period of
performance extending beyond the current fiscal year;
(6) obligations and expenditures for specific domestic and
international investigative mission areas, including
countering fentanyl and child exploitation;
(7) the rate of operations for the Custody Operations,
Alternatives to Detention, and Transportation and Removal
Operations programs, projects, and activities, which shall
include a projection of the exhaustion of funds based on
current resources and operational levels; and
(8) the initial obligation plan as described in subsection
(a), displayed unchanged for the purposes of comparison.
(c) The monthly updates required by subsection (b) shall be
submitted no later than 15 days after the beginning of the
month following the submission of the initial obligation plan
as described in subsection (a).
(d)(1) For an additional amount for ``U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement--Operations and Support--Executive
Leadership and Oversight'', $100,000, which shall be made
available for Mission Support--Executive Leadership and
Oversight on the sixteenth day of each month, in a total
amount for the fiscal year not to exceed $700,000.
(2) Beginning 30 days after the date of enactment of this
Act, amounts in paragraph (1) shall only be made available
for obligation in a given month if the reporting requirements
set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section are
provided to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate within the timeframe required
pursuant to subsections (a) and (c), respectively.
Sec. 218. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Director of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement shall submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
a written execution plan for the funding provided by Public
Law 119-21 for detention facilities, to include the following
elements:
(1) the location, number of beds, and estimated cost per
bed of each detention facility utilized by or on behalf of
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the preceding
quarter;
(2) the location, number of beds, and estimated cost per
bed of each detention facility projected to be utilized by or
on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the
subsequent quarter;
(3) the total number of beds projected to be utilized by or
on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through
the end of the fiscal year;
(4) any associated increase or decrease in transportation
and removal operations cost estimates associated with
paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this section, to include
removal flights; and
(5) a general overview of the desired geographic end-state
for detention facilities, any new operational models or
strategies related to detention capacity that will be
utilized, and a comparison of current detention capacity
against projected end-state capacity.
(b)(1) Subsequent to the submission of the written
execution plan provided in subsection (a), the Director of
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall provide to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate a briefing and written update to such
execution plan not later than 30 days following the end of
each fiscal quarter; and
(2) each briefing and written update described in paragraph
(1) shall include a review of the execution of funds for the
most recently completed quarter, a comparison of the actual
execution of funds in relation to the planned execution of
funds, and any remedial actions taken in the case of a
failure to execute funding in accordance with the initial
execution plan as described in subsection (a); and
(c) The initial execution plan described in subsection (a)
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for purposes of comparison in the briefings and written
updates described in subsection (b).
Sec. 219. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act
or any other Act may be used to reduce the presence of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement attaches or liaisons at
international U.S. embassies or consulates for the purposes
of international investigations or partnerships with foreign
law enforcement.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a reduction of
presence in a specific country if--
(1) the Secretary of Homeland Security, in collaboration
with the Secretary of State, provides a written explanation
of how maintaining a collaborative investigatory presence in
a specific country undermines U.S. foreign policy interests
in that country to the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate; or
(2) a country requests the cessation of collaborative law
enforcement activities performed by the attache or liaison
stationed at the embassy or consulate to their country.
Sec. 220. (a) Members of the United States House of
Representatives and the United States Senate, including the
leadership; the heads of Federal agencies and commissions,
including the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Under Secretaries,
and Assistant Secretaries of the Department of Homeland
Security; the United States Attorney General, Deputy Attorney
General, Assistant Attorneys General, and the United States
Attorneys; and senior members of the Executive Office of the
President, including the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget, shall not be exempt from Federal passenger and
baggage screening.
(b) None of the funds made available in this or any other
Act, including prior Acts, or provided from any accounts in
the Treasury of the United States derived by the collection
of fees available to the components funded by this Act may be
used to carry out legislation altering the applicability of
the screening requirements outlined in subsection (a).
Sec. 221. Notwithstanding section 44923 of title 49,
United States Code, for fiscal year 2026, any funds in the
Aviation Security Capital Fund established by section
44923(h) of title 49, United States Code, may be used for the
procurement and installation of explosives detection systems
or for the issuance of other transaction agreements for the
purpose of funding projects described in section 44923(a) of
such title.
Sec. 222. Not later than 45 days after the submission of
the President's budget proposal, the Administrator of the
Transportation Security Administration shall submit to the
Committees on Appropriations and Homeland Security of the
House of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations
and Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a
single report that fulfills the following requirements:
(1) a Capital Investment Plan, both constrained and
unconstrained, that includes a plan for continuous and
sustained capital investment in new, and the replacement of
aged, transportation security equipment;
(2) the 5-year technology investment plan as required by
section 1611 of title XVI of the Homeland Security Act of
2002, as amended by section 3 of the Transportation Security
Acquisition Reform Act (Public Law 113-245); and
(3) the Advanced Integrated Passenger Screening
Technologies report as required by the Senate Report
accompanying the Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act, 2019 (Senate Report 115-283).
Sec. 223. Section 515(b) of Public Law 108-334 (49 U.S.C.
44945 note) is amended by striking ``report'' each place it
appears (including in the subsection heading) and inserting
``briefing'' and by striking ``transmit to'' and inserting
``provide''.
Sec. 224. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act
under the heading ``Coast Guard--Operations and Support''
shall be for expenses incurred for recreational vessels under
section 12114 of title 46, United States Code, except to the
extent fees are collected from owners of yachts and credited
to the appropriation made available by this Act under the
heading ``Coast Guard--Operations and Support''.
(b) To the extent such fees are insufficient to pay
expenses of recreational vessel documentation under such
section 12114, and there is a backlog of recreational vessel
applications, personnel performing non-recreational vessel
documentation functions under subchapter II of chapter 121 of
title 46, United States Code, may perform documentation under
section 12114.
Sec. 225. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Commandant of the Coast Guard shall submit to the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate a future-years capital investment plan as described in
the second proviso under the heading ``Coast Guard--
Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements'' in the
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015
(Public Law 114-4), which shall be subject to the
requirements in the third and fourth provisos under such
heading.
Sec. 226. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to
reduce the Coast Guard's legacy Operations Systems Center
mission or its government-employed or contract staff levels.
Sec. 227. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may
be used to conduct, or to implement the results of, a
competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-
76 for activities performed with respect to the Coast Guard
National Vessel Documentation Center.
Sec. 228. Funds made available in this Act may be used to
alter operations within the Civil Engineering Program of the
Coast Guard nationwide, including civil engineering units,
facilities design and construction centers, maintenance and
logistics commands, and the Coast Guard Academy, except that
none of the funds provided in this Act may be used to reduce
operations within any civil engineering unit unless
specifically authorized by a statute enacted after the date
of enactment of this Act.
Sec. 229. Amounts deposited into the Coast Guard Housing
Fund in fiscal year 2026 shall be available until expended to
carry out the purposes of section 2946 of title 14, United
States Code, and shall be in addition to funds otherwise
available for such purposes.
Sec. 230. (a) For an additional amount for ``Coast Guard--
Procurement, Construction, and Improvements'', $98,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2030, for the
procurement and acquisition of MQ-9 aircraft and associated
base stations, equipment related to such aircraft and
associated base stations, and program management for such
aircraft and base stations.
(b) None of the funds made available in this Act or any
other act may be used to procure or acquire long-range
unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities or to equip any
long-range unmanned aircraft with kinetic capabilities.
Sec. 231. None of the funds made available to the United
States Coast Guard by this Act may be available for
implementation of Force Design 2028 until the Coast Guard
provides the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate detailed briefings on the
initiatives of organization, people, technology, and
contracting and acquisitions.
Sec. 232. The United States Secret Service is authorized
to obligate funds in anticipation of reimbursements from
executive agencies, as defined in section 105 of title 5,
United States Code, for personnel receiving training
sponsored by the James J. Rowley Training Center, except that
total obligations at the end of the fiscal year shall not
exceed total budgetary resources available under the heading
``United States Secret Service--Operations and Support'' at
the end of the fiscal year.
Sec. 233. (a) None of the funds made available to the
United States Secret Service by this Act or by previous
appropriations Acts may be made available for the protection
of the head of a Federal agency other than the Secretary of
Homeland Security.
(b) The Director of the United States Secret Service may
enter into agreements to provide such protection on a fully
reimbursable basis.
Sec. 234. For purposes of section 503(a)(3) of this Act,
up to $15,000,000 may be reprogrammed within ``United States
Secret Service--Operations and Support''.
Sec. 235. Funding made available in this Act for ``United
States Secret Service--Operations and Support'' is available
for travel of United States Secret Service employees on
protective missions without regard to the limitations on such
expenditures in this or any other Act if the Director of the
United States Secret Service or a designee notifies the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate 10 or more days in advance, or as early as
practicable, prior to such expenditures.
Sec. 236. Of the amounts made available by this Act under
the heading ``United States Secret Service--Operations and
Support'', $2,000,000, to remain available until expended,
shall be distributed as a grant or cooperative agreement for
existing National Computer Forensics Institute facilities
currently used by the United States Secret Service to carry
out activities under section 383 of title 6, United States
Code.
Sec. 237. (a) Section 118 of the Treasury and General
Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is
amended, in the first sentence, by inserting ``(or, for 2024,
to the extent that such aggregate amount would exceed the per
annum rate of salary payable under section 104 of title 3,
United States Code)'' before the period at the end.
(b) Subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on
December 31, 2023.
(c) Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, and annually thereafter through 2028, the Director
shall submit to the Committee on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate; the Committee on Homeland
Security, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and
the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives; and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of
the Senate of Congress a report describing the steps that the
United States Secret Service is taking to address the
increased protective service demands placed upon United
States Secret Service personnel.
(d) Each report required under subparagraph (c) shall
include the following:
(1) An analysis of the current (as of the date on which the
report is submitted) operational demands and staffing levels
with respect to the United States Secret Service.
(2) Recommended strategies for reducing overtime
requirements for United States Secret Service personnel,
including--

(i) the appointment of additional personnel;
(ii) solutions such that sufficient resources are available
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the need for exceptions to, or waivers of, premium pay
limitations;
(iii) the redistribution of workload among United States
Secret Service personnel; and
(iv) other improvements in operational efficiency with
respect to the United States Secret Service.
(e) Within the reports required under paragraphs (3) and
(4) of section 2(c) of the Overtime Pay for Protective
Services Act of 2023 (Public Law 118-38; 138 Stat. 13) that
are submitted after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Director shall include information about--
(1) the average number of overtime hours and range of
number of overtime hours completed by United States Secret
Service personnel receiving premium pay above the pay
limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of title 5,
United States Code; and
(2) the average number of overtime hours and range of
number of overtime hours completed by United States Secret
Service personnel who are not fully compensated for their
overtime because their premium pay would be above the pay
limitation in section 2 of the Overtime Pay Protection Act of
2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note).
(f) The matter preceding the first proviso under the
heading ``United States Secret Service--Operations and
Support'' in division C of Public Law 118-47 shall be applied
to funds appropriated by this Act by substituting
``$40,000,000'' for ``$24,000,000'' and substituting ``2024''
for ``2023''.
Sec. 238. Section 211 of the Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2021 (division F of Public Law
116-260), prohibiting the use of funds for the construction
of fencing in certain areas, shall apply with respect to
funds made available in this Act in the same manner as such
section applied to funds made available in that Act.

TITLE III

PROTECTION, PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency for operations and support,
$2,218,634,000, which shall be for the purposes and in the
amounts specified in the ``Final Bill'' column for
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Operations
and Support in the ``Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act, 2026'' table in the explanatory statement
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of
this consolidated Act), of which amounts made available for
Risk Management Operations, National Infrastructure
Simulation Analysis Center shall remain available until
September 30, 2027: Provided, That not to exceed $3,825
shall be for official reception and representation expenses.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency for procurement, construction,
and improvements, $386,464,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2028.

Federal Emergency Management Agency

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency for operations and support, $1,667,038,000: Provided,
That not less than $3,000,000 shall be for the Emergency
Management Assistance Compact: Provided further, That not to
exceed $2,250 shall be for official reception and
representation expenses.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency for procurement, construction, and improvements,
$156,419,000, of which $92,794,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2028, and of which $63,625,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2030.

federal assistance

For activities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
for Federal assistance through grants, contracts, cooperative
agreements, and other activities, $3,836,748,513, which shall
be allocated as follows:
(1) $494,000,000 for the State Homeland Security Grant
Program under section 2004 of the Homeland Security Act of
2002 (6 U.S.C. 605), of which $85,500,000 shall be for
Operation Stonegarden and $14,250,000 shall be for Tribal
Homeland Security Grants under section 2005 of the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 606): Provided, That
notwithstanding subsection (c)(4) of such section 2004, for
fiscal year 2026, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall make
available to local and tribal governments amounts provided to
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under this paragraph in
accordance with subsection (c)(1) of such section 2004.
(2) $584,250,000 for the Urban Area Security Initiative
under section 2003 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6
U.S.C. 604).
(3) $300,000,000 for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program
under section 2009 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6
U.S.C. 609a), of which $150,000,000 is for eligible
recipients located in high-risk urban areas that receive
funding under section 2003 of such Act and $150,000,000 is
for eligible recipients that are located outside such areas:
Provided, That eligible recipients are those described in
section 2009(b) of such Act (6 U.S.C. 609a(b)) or are an
otherwise eligible recipient at risk of a terrorist or other
extremist attack.
(4) $99,750,000 for Public Transportation Security
Assistance, Railroad Security Assistance, and Over-the-Road
Bus Security Assistance under sections 1406, 1513, and 1532
of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission
Act of 2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135, 1163, and 1182), of which
$9,500,000 shall be for Amtrak security and $1,900,000 shall
be for Over-the-Road Bus Security: Provided, That such
public transportation security assistance shall be provided
directly to public transportation agencies.
(5) $95,000,000 for Port Security Grants in accordance with
section 70107 of title 46, United States Code.
(6) $684,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2027, of which $342,000,000 shall be for Assistance to
Firefighter Grants and $342,000,000 shall be for Staffing for
Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grants under sections 33
and 34 respectively of the Federal Fire Prevention and
Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229 and 2229a).
(7) $337,250,000 for emergency management performance
grants under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42
U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121), the Earthquake
Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701), section 762
of title 6, United States Code, and Reorganization Plan No. 3
of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).
(8) $297,113,000 for necessary expenses for Flood Hazard
Mapping and Risk Analysis, in addition to and to supplement
any other sums appropriated under the National Flood
Insurance Fund, and such additional sums as may be provided
by States or other political subdivisions for cost-shared
mapping activities under section 1360(f)(2) of the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4101(f)(2)), to remain
available until expended.
(9) $11,400,000 for Regional Catastrophic Preparedness
Grants.
(10) $11,400,000 for Rehabilitation of High Hazard
Potential Dams under section 8A of the National Dam Safety
Program Act (33 U.S.C. 467f-2).
(11) $123,500,000 for the emergency food and shelter
program under title III of the McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331), to remain available until
September 30, 2027: Provided, That not to exceed 3.5 percent
shall be for total administrative costs.
(12) $48,000,000 for the Next Generation Warning System.
(13) $272,671,513 for Community Project Funding and
Congressionally Directed Spending grants, which shall be for
the purposes, and the amounts, specified in the table
entitled ``Homeland Security--Community Project Funding/
Congressionally Directed Spending'' under the ``Disclosure of
Earmarks and Congressionally Directed Spending Items''
heading in the explanatory statement described in section 4
(in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated
Act), of which--
(A) $82,957,854, in addition to amounts otherwise made
available for such purpose, is for emergency operations
center grants under section 614 of the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
5196c); and
(B) $189,713,659, in addition to amounts otherwise made
available for such purpose, is for pre-disaster mitigation
grants under section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133(e)),
notwithstanding subsections (f), (g), and (l) of that section
(42 U.S.C. 5133(f), (g), (l)).
(14) $478,414,000 to sustain current operations for
training, exercises, technical assistance, and other
programs, of which--
(A) $85,711,000 is for the Center for Domestic
Preparedness;
(B) $17,100,000 is for the Center for Homeland Defense and
Security;
(C) $33,366,000 is for the Emergency Management Institute;
(D) $72,140,000 is for the United States Fire
Administration;
(E) $95,950,000 is for the National Domestic Preparedness
Consortium;
(F) $15,200,000 is for Continuing Training Grants;
(G) $21,266,000 is for the National Exercise Program;
(H) $83,657,000 is for the Biological Support Program;
(I) $34,465,000 is for the Securing the Cities Program; and
(J) $19,559,000 is for Countering Weapons of Mass
Destruction Training, Exercises, and Readiness.

disaster relief fund

For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $26,367,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That such amount shall be for
major disasters declared pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121
et seq.) and is designated by the Congress as being for
disaster relief pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the
budget.

national flood insurance fund

For activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of
1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Flood Disaster Protection
Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Biggert-Waters
Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-141, 126
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Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-89;
128 Stat. 1020), $226,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2027, which shall be derived from offsetting
amounts collected under section 1308(d) of the National Flood
Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4015(d)); of which
$16,302,000 shall be available for mission support associated
with flood management; and of which $209,698,000 shall be
available for flood plain management and flood mapping:
Provided, That any additional fees collected pursuant to
section 1308(d) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968
(42 U.S.C. 4015(d)) shall be credited as offsetting
collections to this account, to be available for flood plain
management and flood mapping: Provided further, That in
fiscal year 2026, no funds shall be available from the
National Flood Insurance Fund under section 1310 of the
National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4017) in
excess of--
(1) $230,669,000 for operating expenses and salaries and
expenses associated with flood insurance operations;
(2) $1,505,000,000 for commissions and taxes of agents;
(3) such sums as are necessary for interest on Treasury
borrowings; and
(4) $175,000,000, which shall remain available until
expended, for flood mitigation actions and for flood
mitigation assistance under section 1366 of the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c),
notwithstanding sections 1366(e) and 1310(a)(7) of such Act
(42 U.S.C. 4104c(e), 4017):
Provided further, That the amounts collected under section
102 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C.
4012a) and section 1366(e) of the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e)), shall be deposited in the
National Flood Insurance Fund to supplement other amounts
specified as available for section 1366 of the National Flood
Insurance Act of 1968, notwithstanding section 102(f)(8),
section 1366(e) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968,
and paragraphs (1) through (3) of section 1367(b) of such Act
(42 U.S.C. 4012a(f)(8), 4104c(e), 4104d(b)(1)-(3)): Provided
further, That total administrative costs shall not exceed 4
percent of the total appropriation: Provided further, That
up to $4,000,000 is available to carry out section 24 of the
Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 (42
U.S.C. 4033).

Administrative Provisions

(including transfers of funds)

Sec. 301. Funds made available under the heading
``Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency--
Operations and Support'' may be made available for the
necessary expenses of procuring or providing access to
cybersecurity threat feeds for branches, agencies,
independent agencies, corporations, establishments, and
instrumentalities of the Federal Government of the United
States, State, local, tribal, and territorial entities,
fusion centers as described in section 210A of the Homeland
Security Act (6 U.S.C. 124h), and Information Sharing and
Analysis Organizations.
Sec. 302. (a) Notwithstanding section 2008(a)(12) of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 609(a)(12)) or any
other provision of law, not more than 5 percent of the amount
of a grant made available in paragraphs (1) through (5) under
``Federal Emergency Management Agency--Federal Assistance'',
may be used by the recipient for expenses directly related to
administration of the grant.
(b) The authority provided in subsection (a) shall also
apply to a state recipient for the administration of a grant
under such paragraph (3).
Sec. 303. (a) Applications for grants under the heading
``Federal Emergency Management Agency--Federal Assistance'',
for paragraphs (1) through (5), shall be made available to
eligible applicants not later than 60 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, eligible applicants shall submit
applications not later than 80 days after the grant
announcement, and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency shall act within 65 days after the receipt
of an application.
(b) Amounts appropriated by this Act for ``Federal
Emergency Management Agency--Operations and Support'' shall
be reduced by $100,000 for each day past the 60-day
requirement that applications are not made available to
eligible applicants as required in subsection (a), and the
amount made available under such heading and specified in the
``Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026''
table in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in
the matter preceding division A of this Consolidated Act) for
Mission Support shall be correspondingly reduced by an
equivalent amount.
Sec. 304. (a) Under the heading ``Federal Emergency
Management Agency--Federal Assistance'', for grants under
paragraphs (1) through (5), (9), and (10) the Administrator
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall brief the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate five full business days in advance of
announcing publicly the intention of making an award.
(b) If any such public announcement is made before five
full business days have elapsed following such briefing,
$1,000,000 of amounts appropriated by this Act for ``Federal
Emergency Management Agency--Operations and Support'' shall
be rescinded, and the amount made available under such
heading and specified in the ``Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2026'' table in the explanatory
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding
division A of this Consolidated Act) for Mission Support
shall be correspondingly reduced by an equivalent amount.
Sec. 305. Under the heading ``Federal Emergency Management
Agency--Federal Assistance'', for grants under paragraphs (1)
and (2), the installation of communications towers is not
considered construction of a building or other physical
facility.
Sec. 306. The reporting requirements in paragraphs (1) and
(2) under the heading ``Federal Emergency Management Agency--
Disaster Relief Fund'' in the Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 114-4), related to
reporting on the Disaster Relief Fund, shall be applied in
fiscal year 2026 with respect to budget year 2027 and current
fiscal year 2026, respectively--
(1) in paragraph (1) by substituting ``fiscal year 2027''
for ``fiscal year 2016''; and
(2) in paragraph (2) by inserting ``business'' after
``fifth''.
Sec. 307. In making grants under the heading ``Federal
Emergency Management Agency--Federal Assistance'', for
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grants, the
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may
grant waivers from the requirements in subsections (a)(1)(A),
(a)(1)(B), (a)(1)(E), (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4) of section
34 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15
U.S.C. 2229a).
Sec. 308. (a) The aggregate charges assessed during fiscal
year 2026, as authorized in title III of the Departments of
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (42 U.S.C.
5196e), shall not be less than 100 percent of the amounts
anticipated by the Department of Homeland Security to be
necessary for its Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program
for the next fiscal year.
(b) The methodology for assessment and collection of fees
shall be fair and equitable and shall reflect costs of
providing such services, including administrative costs of
collecting such fees.
(c) Such fees shall be deposited in a Radiological
Emergency Preparedness Program account as offsetting
collections and will become available for authorized purposes
on October 1, 2026, and remain available until expended.
Sec. 309. In making grants under the heading ``Federal
Emergency Management Agency--Federal Assistance'', for
Assistance to Firefighter Grants, the Administrator of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency may waive subsection (k)
of section 33 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act
of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229).
Sec. 310. Any unobligated balances of funds appropriated
in any prior Act for activities funded by the National
Predisaster Mitigation Fund under section 203 of the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5133), as in effect on the day before the date of
enactment of section 1234 of division D of Public Law 115-
254, shall be transferred to and merged with funds set aside
pursuant to subsection (i)(1) of section 203 of the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 5133), as in effect on the date of the enactment of
this section.
Sec. 311. Any unobligated balances of funds appropriated
under the heading ``Federal Emergency Management Agency--
Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis Program'' in any prior
Act shall be transferred to and merged with funds
appropriated under the heading ``Federal Emergency Management
Agency--Federal Assistance'' for necessary expenses for Flood
Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis: Provided, That funds
transferred pursuant to this section shall be in addition to
and supplement any other sums appropriated for such purposes
under the National Flood Insurance Fund and such additional
sums as may be provided by States or other political
subdivisions for cost-shared mapping activities under section
1360(f)(2) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42
U.S.C. 4101(f)(2)), to remain available until expended.
Sec. 312. Each award for grants under the heading
``Federal Emergency Management Agency--Federal Assistance''
for paragraphs (1) through (10) and (12), shall have a period
of performance, as defined by 2 CFR 200.1, that shall be of
not less than three years and not more than five years.
Sec. 313. (a) The Administrator of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency shall post an interactive dashboard on the
public-facing website of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency with any request for reimbursement for a covered
expense, delineated by state and any amount for individual
assistance or public assistance related to emergency (42
U.S.C. 5122(1)) or major disaster (42 U.S.C. 5122(2))
declarations under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.)--
(1) not more than 90 days after such information has been
received by the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and
(2) not more than 60 days after such information is under
final review by the Department of Homeland Security.
(b) The information in the interactive dashboard referenced
in subsection (a) shall include at a minimum the information
listed in subparagraphs (1) through (7) under the heading in
the paragraph titled ``Public and Individual Assistance'' in
the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the
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Sec. 314. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to pause a training or grant funded under the
heading ``Federal Emergency Management Agency--Federal
Assistance''.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Secretary of
Homeland Security notifies the Committees on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives and the Senate not more than
10 business days in advance of the pause.
(c) The notification required by subsection (b) shall
include an explanation for the pause, plans to make up any
missed classes resulting from the pause, and the budgetary
impact of any paused training.
(d) The Secretary may waive the requirement in subsection
(b) in the event of extraordinary circumstances that
imminently threaten the safety of human life or the
protection of property.

TITLE IV

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND SERVICES

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

operations and support

For necessary expenses of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services for operations and support, including for the E-
Verify Program, $122,941,000: Provided, That such amounts
shall be in addition to any other amounts made available for
such purposes, and shall not be construed to require any
reduction of any fee described in section 286(m) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(m)): Provided
further, That not to exceed $5,000 shall be for official
reception and representation expenses.

Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Centers for operations and support, including the
purchase of not to exceed 117 vehicles for police-type use
and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services as
authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code,
$379,837,000, of which $75,551,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 2027: Provided, That not to exceed
$7,180 shall be for official reception and representation
expenses.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Centers for procurement, construction, and
improvements, $18,300,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2030, for acquisition of necessary additional
real property and facilities, construction and ongoing
maintenance, facility improvements, and related expenses of
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers.

Science and Technology Directorate

operations and support

For necessary expenses of the Science and Technology
Directorate for operations and support, including the
purchase or lease of not to exceed 5 vehicles, $352,802,000,
of which $201,183,000 shall remain available until September
30, 2027: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 shall be for
official reception and representation expenses.

procurement, construction, and improvements

For necessary expenses of the Science and Technology
Directorate for procurement, construction, and improvements,
$51,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2030.

research and development

For necessary expenses of the Science and Technology
Directorate for research and development, $426,904,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2028.

Administrative Provisions

Sec. 401. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
funds otherwise made available to U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services may be used to acquire, operate, equip,
and dispose of up to 5 vehicles, for replacement only, for
areas where the Administrator of General Services does not
provide vehicles for lease.
(b) The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services may authorize employees who are assigned to those
areas to use such vehicles to travel between the employees'
residences and places of employment.
Sec. 402. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may
be used to process or approve a competition under Office of
Management and Budget Circular A-76 for services provided by
employees (including employees serving on a temporary or term
basis) of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the
Department of Homeland Security who are known as Immigration
Information Officers, Immigration Service Analysts, Contact
Representatives, Investigative Assistants, or Immigration
Services Officers.
Sec. 403. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
Federal funds made available to U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services may be used for the collection and use
of biometrics taken at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services Application Support Center that is overseen
virtually by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
personnel using appropriate technology.
Sec. 404. The Director of the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Centers is authorized to distribute funds to Federal
law enforcement agencies for expenses incurred participating
in training accreditation.
Sec. 405. The Federal Law Enforcement Training
Accreditation Board, including representatives from the
Federal law enforcement community and non-Federal
accreditation experts involved in law enforcement training,
shall lead the Federal law enforcement training accreditation
process to continue the implementation of measuring and
assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law
enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors.
Sec. 406. (a) The Director of the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Centers may accept transfers to its ``Procurement,
Construction, and Improvements'' account from Government
agencies requesting the construction of special use
facilities, as authorized by the Economy Act (31 U.S.C.
1535(b)).
(b) The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers shall
maintain administrative control and ownership upon completion
of such facilities.
Sec. 407. The functions of the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Centers instructor staff shall be classified as
inherently governmental for purposes of the Federal
Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 note).

TITLE V

GENERAL PROVISIONS

(including transfers and rescissions of funds)

Sec. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current
fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
Sec. 502. Subject to the requirements of section 503 of
this Act, the unexpended balances of prior appropriations
provided for activities in this Act may be transferred to
appropriation accounts for such activities established
pursuant to this Act, may be merged with funds in the
applicable established accounts, and thereafter may be
accounted for as one fund for the same time period as
originally enacted.
Sec. 503. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act,
provided by previous appropriations Acts to the components in
or transferred to the Department of Homeland Security that
remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year
2026, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the
United States derived by the collection of fees available to
the components funded by this Act, shall be available for
obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds
that--
(1) creates or eliminates a program, project, or activity,
or increases funds for any program, project, or activity for
which funds have been denied or restricted by the Congress;
(2) contracts out any function or activity presently
performed by Federal employees or any new function or
activity proposed to be performed by Federal employees in the
President's budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 for the
Department of Homeland Security;
(3) augments funding for existing programs, projects, or
activities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever
is less;
(4) reduces funding for any program, project, or activity,
or numbers of personnel, by 10 percent or more; or
(5) results from any general savings from a reduction in
personnel that would result in a change in funding levels for
programs, projects, or activities as approved by the
Congress.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
are notified at least 30 days in advance of such
reprogramming.
(c) Up to 5 percent of any appropriation made available for
the current fiscal year for the Department of Homeland
Security by this Act or provided by previous appropriations
Acts may be transferred between such appropriations if the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate are notified at least 30 days in advance of
such transfer, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise
specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10
percent by such transfer.
(d) Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c), no funds
shall be reprogrammed within or transferred between
appropriations--
(1) based upon an initial notification provided after June
15, except in extraordinary circumstances that imminently
threaten the safety of human life or the protection of
property;
(2) to increase or decrease funding for grant programs; or
(3) to create a program, project, or activity pursuant to
subsection (a)(1), including any new function or requirement
within any program, project, or activity, not approved by
Congress in the consideration of the enactment of this Act.
(e) The notification thresholds and procedures set forth in
subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall apply to any use of
deobligated balances of funds provided in previous Department
of Homeland Security Appropriations Acts that remain
available for obligation in the current year.
(f) Notwithstanding subsection (c), the Secretary of
Homeland Security may transfer to the fund established by 8
U.S.C. 1101 note, up to $20,000,000 from appropriations
available to the Department of Homeland Security: Provided,
That the Secretary shall notify the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
at least 5 days in advance of such transfer.
Sec. 504. (a) Section 504 of the Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2017 (division F of Public Law
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to the operations of a working capital fund, shall apply with
respect to funds made available in this Act in the same
manner as such section applied to funds made available in
that Act.
(b) Funds from such working capital fund may be obligated
and expended in anticipation of reimbursements from
components of the Department of Homeland Security.
Sec. 505. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided by
law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2026, as
recorded in the financial records at the time of a
reprogramming notification, but not later than June 15, 2027,
from appropriations for ``Operations and Support'' for fiscal
year 2026 in this Act shall remain available through
September 30, 2027, in the account and for the purposes for
which the appropriations were provided.
(b) Prior to the obligation of such funds, a notification
shall be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives and the Senate in accordance with
section 503 of this Act.
Sec. 506. (a) Funds made available by this Act for
intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically
authorized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal
year 2026 until the enactment of an Act authorizing
intelligence activities for fiscal year 2026.
(b) Amounts described in subsection (a) made available for
``Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Awareness--
Operations and Support'' that exceed the amounts in such
authorization for such account shall be transferred to and
merged with amounts made available under the heading
``Management Directorate--Operations and Support''.
(c) Prior to the obligation of any funds transferred under
subsection (b), the Undersecretary for Management shall brief
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate on a plan for the use of such
funds.
Sec. 507. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, or the
designee of the Secretary, shall notify the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
at least three full business days in advance of--
(1) making or awarding a grant allocation or grant in
excess of $1,000,000 or a grant made from the Disaster Relief
Fund in excess of $100,000;
(2) making or awarding a contract, other transaction
agreement, or task or delivery order on a multiple award
contract, or to issue a letter of intent totaling in excess
of $2,000,000;
(3) awarding a task or delivery order requiring an
obligation of funds in an amount greater than $5,000,000 from
multi-year Department of Homeland Security funds;
(4) making a sole-source grant award; or
(5) announcing publicly the intention to make or award
items under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) including a
contract covered by the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
(b) If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that
compliance with this section would pose a substantial risk to
human life, health, or safety, an award may be made without
notification, and the Secretary shall notify the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate not later than three full business days after such an
award is made or letter issued.
(c) A notification under this section--
(1) may not involve funds that are not available for
obligation; and
(2) shall include the amount of the award; the fiscal year
for which the funds for the award were appropriated; the type
of contract; and the account from which the funds are being
drawn.
Sec. 508. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any additional
facilities, except within or contiguous to existing
locations, to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal
law enforcement training without advance notification to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate, except that the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Centers is authorized to obtain the temporary use of
additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement
for training that cannot be accommodated in existing Centers'
facilities.
Sec. 509. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act may be used for expenses for any
construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition project for
which a prospectus otherwise required under chapter 33 of
title 40, United States Code, has not been approved, except
that necessary funds may be expended for each project for
required expenses for the development of a proposed
prospectus.
Sec. 510. Sections 522 and 530 of the Department of
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 (division E of
Public Law 110-161; 121 Stat. 2073 and 2074) shall apply with
respect to funds made available in this Act in the same
manner as such sections applied to funds made available in
that Act.
Sec. 511. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act
may be used in contravention of the applicable provisions of
the Buy American Act.
(b) For purposes of subsection (a), the term ``Buy American
Act'' means chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code.
Sec. 512. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used to amend the oath of allegiance required by section
337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1448).
Sec. 513. (a) None of the funds provided or otherwise made
available by this Act may be made available to carry out
section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C.
452) unless explicitly authorized by the Congress after the
date of enactment of this Act.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to the use of the
authorities provided by such section 872--
(1) to allocate or reallocate the functions of the
Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass
Destruction Office to other offices and organizational units
within the Department consistent with the ``Countering
Weapons of Mass Destruction'' table in the explanatory
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding
division A of this consolidated Act); or
(2) to allocate or reallocate any other functions of the
Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office to other
offices and organizational units within the Department
consistent with the ``Countering Weapons of Mass
Destruction'' table in the explanatory statement described in
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this
consolidated Act).
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary may
transfer funds made available in prior appropriations Acts to
the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office between any
appropriations available to the Department as necessary to
carry out the purposes described in subsection (b).
Sec. 514. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used for planning, testing, piloting, or developing a
national identification card.
Sec. 515. Any official that is required by this Act to
report or to certify to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate may not delegate
such authority to perform that act unless specifically
authorized herein.
Sec. 516. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used for first-class travel by the employees of agencies
funded by this Act in contravention of sections 301-10.122
through 301-10.124 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations.
Sec. 517. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used to employ workers described in section 274A(h)(3) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)).
Sec. 518. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by
this Act may be used to pay award or incentive fees for
contractor performance that has been judged to be below
satisfactory performance or performance that does not meet
the basic requirements of a contract.
Sec. 519. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act
may be used to maintain or establish a computer network
unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and
exchanging of pornography.
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds
necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, territorial, or
local law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out
criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication
activities.
Sec. 520. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used by a Federal law enforcement officer to facilitate
the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual if the
Federal law enforcement officer knows or suspects that the
individual is an agent of a drug cartel unless law
enforcement personnel of the United States continuously
monitor or control the firearm at all times.
Sec. 521. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act
may be used to pay for the travel to or attendance of more
than 50 employees of a single component of the Department of
Homeland Security, who are stationed in the United States, at
a single international conference unless the Secretary of
Homeland Security, or a designee, determines that such
attendance is in the national interest and notifies the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate within at least 10 days of that determination
and the basis for that determination.
(b) For purposes of this section the term ``international
conference'' shall mean a conference occurring outside of the
United States attended by representatives of the United
States Government and of foreign governments, international
organizations, or nongovernmental organizations.
(c) The total cost to the Department of Homeland Security
of any such conference shall not exceed $500,000.
(d) Employees who attend a conference virtually without
travel away from their permanent duty station within the
United States shall not be counted for purposes of this
section, and the prohibition contained in this section shall
not apply to payments for the costs of attendance for such
employees.
Sec. 522. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used to reimburse any Federal department or agency for its
participation in a National Special Security Event.
Sec. 523. (a) None of the funds made available to the
Department of Homeland Security by this or any other Act may
be obligated for the implementation of any structural pay
reform or the introduction of any new position classification
that will affect more than 100 full-time positions or costs
more than $5,000,000 in a single year before the end of the
30-day period beginning on the date on which the Secretary of
Homeland Security submits to Congress a notification that
includes--
(1) the number of full-time positions affected by such
change;
(2) funding required for such change for the current fiscal
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(3) justification for such change; and
(4) for a structural pay reform, an analysis of
compensation alternatives to such change that were considered
by the Department.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to such change if--
(1) it was proposed in the President's budget proposal for
the fiscal year funded by this Act; and
(2) funds for such change have not been explicitly denied
or restricted in this Act.
Sec. 524. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in
this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on
the public website of that agency any report required to be
submitted by the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate in this Act, upon the
determination by the head of the agency that it shall serve
the national interest.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if--
(1) the public posting of the report compromises homeland
or national security; or
(2) the report contains proprietary information.
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall do so
only after such report has been made available to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate for not less than 45 days except as otherwise
specified in law.
(d) If the requirements of this section are not met, the
reprogramming and transfer authority provided in section 503
of this Act shall be suspended until the requirements of
subsection (a) are met.
Sec. 525. (a) Funding provided in this Act for ``Operations
and Support'' may be used for minor procurement,
construction, and improvements.
(b) For purposes of subsection (a), ``minor'' refers to end
items with a unit cost of $250,000 or less for personal
property, and $4,000,000 or less for real property.
Sec. 526. The authority provided by section 532 of the
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2018
(Public Law 115-141) regarding primary and secondary
schooling of dependents shall continue in effect during
fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 527. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), none of
the funds made available in this Act may be used to place
restraints on a woman in the custody of the Department of
Homeland Security (including during transport, in a detention
facility, or at an outside medical facility) who is pregnant
or in post-delivery recuperation.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a
pregnant woman if--
(1) an appropriate official of the Department of Homeland
Security makes an individualized determination that the
woman--
(A) is a serious flight risk, and such risk cannot be
prevented by other means; or
(B) poses an immediate and serious threat to harm herself
or others that cannot be prevented by other means; or
(2) a medical professional responsible for the care of the
pregnant woman determines that the use of therapeutic
restraints is appropriate for the medical safety of the
woman.
(c) If a pregnant woman is restrained pursuant to
subsection (b), only the safest and least restrictive
restraints, as determined by the appropriate medical
professional treating the woman, may be used. In no case may
restraints be used on a woman who is in active labor or
delivery, and in no case may a pregnant woman be restrained
in a face-down position with four-point restraints, on her
back, or in a restraint belt that constricts the area of the
pregnancy. A pregnant woman who is immobilized by restraints
shall be positioned, to the maximum extent feasible, on her
left side.
Sec. 528. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act
may be used to destroy any document, recording, or other
record pertaining to any--
(1) death of;
(2) potential sexual assault or abuse perpetrated against;
or
(3) allegation of abuse, criminal activity, or disruption
committed by an individual held in the custody of the
Department of Homeland Security.
(b) The records referred to in subsection (a) shall be made
available, in accordance with applicable laws and
regulations, and Federal rules governing disclosure in
litigation, to an individual who has been charged with a
crime, been placed into segregation, or otherwise punished as
a result of an allegation described in paragraph (3), upon
the request of such individual.
Sec. 529. Section 519 of division F of Public Law 114-113,
regarding a prohibition on funding for any position
designated as a Principal Federal Official, shall apply with
respect to any Federal funds in the same manner as such
section applied to funds made available in that Act.
Sec. 530. (a) Not later than 10 days after the date on
which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is
submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title
31, United States Code, the Under Secretary for Management of
Homeland Security shall submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
a report on the unfunded priorities, for the Department of
Homeland Security and separately for each departmental
component, for which discretionary funding would be
classified as budget function 050.
(b) Each report under this section shall specify, for each
such unfunded priority--
(1) a summary description, including the objectives to be
achieved if such priority is funded (whether in whole or in
part);
(2) the description, including the objectives to be
achieved if such priority is funded (whether in whole or in
part);
(3) account information, including the following (as
applicable):
(A) appropriation account; and
(B) program, project, or activity name; and
(4) the additional number of full-time or part-time
positions to be funded as part of such priority.
(c) In this section, the term ``unfunded priority'', in the
case of a fiscal year, means a requirement that--
(1) is not funded in the budget referred to in subsection
(a);
(2) is necessary to fulfill a requirement associated with
an operational or contingency plan for the Department; and
(3) would have been recommended for funding through the
budget referred to in subsection (a) if--
(A) additional resources had been available for the budget
to fund the requirement;
(B) the requirement has emerged since the budget was
formulated; or
(C) the requirement is necessary to sustain prior-year
investments.
Sec. 531. (a) Not later than 10 days after a determination
is made by the President to evaluate and initiate protection
under any authority for a former or retired Government
official or employee, or for an individual who, during the
duration of the directed protection, will become a former or
retired Government official or employee (referred to in this
section as a ``covered individual''), the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall submit a notification to
congressional leadership and the Committees on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the
Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives
and the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Security of the
House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on
Oversight and Reform of the House of Representatives
(referred to in this section as the ``appropriate
congressional committees'').
(b) Such notification may be submitted in classified form,
if necessary, and in consultation with the Director of
National Intelligence or the Director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, as appropriate, and shall include the
threat assessment, scope of the protection, and the
anticipated cost and duration of such protection.
(c) Not later than 15 days before extending, or 30 days
before terminating, protection for a covered individual, the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a notification
regarding the extension or termination and any change to the
threat assessment to the congressional leadership and the
appropriate congressional committees.
(d) Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, and quarterly thereafter, the Secretary shall
submit a report to the congressional leadership and the
appropriate congressional committees, which may be submitted
in classified form, if necessary, detailing each covered
individual, and the scope and associated cost of protection.
Sec. 532. (a) None of the funds provided to the Department
of Homeland Security in this or any prior Act may be used by
an agency to submit an initial project proposal to the
Technology Modernization Fund (as authorized by section 1078
of subtitle G of title X of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91))
unless, concurrent with the submission of an initial project
proposal to the Technology Modernization Board, the head of
the agency--
(1) notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate of the proposed submission
of the project proposal;
(2) submits to the Committees on Appropriations a copy of
the project proposal; and
(3) provides a detailed analysis of how the proposed
project funding would supplement or supplant funding
requested as part of the Department's most recent budget
submission.
(b) None of the funds provided to the Department of
Homeland Security by the Technology Modernization Fund shall
be available for obligation until 15 days after a report on
such funds has been transmitted to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate.
(c) The report described in subsection (b) shall include--
(1) the full project proposal submitted to and approved by
the Fund's Technology Modernization Board;
(2) the finalized interagency agreement between the
Department and the Fund including the project's deliverables
and repayment terms, as applicable;
(3) a detailed analysis of how the project will supplement
or supplant existing funding available to the Department for
similar activities;
(4) a plan for how the Department will repay the Fund,
including specific planned funding sources, as applicable;
and
(5) other information as determined by the Secretary.
Sec. 533. Within 60 days of any budget submission for the
Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2027 that
assumes revenues or proposes a reduction from the previous
year based on user fees proposals that have not been enacted
into law prior to the submission of the budget, the Secretary
of Homeland Security shall provide the Committees on
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Representatives and the Senate specific reductions in
proposed discretionary budget authority commensurate with the
revenues assumed in such proposals in the event that they are
not enacted prior to October 1, 2026.
Sec. 534. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be obligated or expended to implement the Arms Trade Treaty
until the Senate approves a resolution of ratification for
the Treaty.
Sec. 535. No Federal funds made available to the
Department of Homeland Security may be used to enter into a
procurement contract, memorandum of understanding, or
cooperative agreement with, or make a grant to, or provide a
loan or guarantee to, any entity identified under section
1260H of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283)
or any subsidiary of such entity.
Sec. 536. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available in this or any other Act may be used to transfer,
release, or assist in the transfer or release to or within
the United States, its territories, or possessions Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who--
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member of the Armed
Forces of the United States; and
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the United
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Department
of Defense.
Sec. 537. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall, on
a monthly basis beginning immediately after the date of
enactment of this Act, develop estimates of the number of
migrants anticipated to arrive at the southwest border of the
United States.
(b) The Secretary shall ensure that, at a minimum, the
estimates developed pursuant to subsection (a)--
(1) cover the current fiscal year and the following fiscal
year;
(2) include a breakout by demographic, to include single
adults, family units, and unaccompanied children;
(3) undergo an independent validation and verification
review;
(4) are used to inform policy planning and budgeting
processes within the Department of Homeland Security; and
(5) are included in the budget materials submitted to
Congress for each fiscal year beginning after the date of
enactment of this Act and in support of--
(A) the President's annual budget request pursuant to
section 1105 of title 31, United States Code;
(B) any supplemental funding request submitted to Congress;
(C) any reprogramming and transfer notification pursuant to
section 503 of this Act; and
(D) such budget materials shall include--
(i) the most recent monthly estimates developed pursuant to
subsection (a);
(ii) a description and quantification of the estimates used
to justify funding requests for Department programs related
to border security, immigration enforcement, and immigration
services;
(iii) a description and quantification of the anticipated
workload and requirements resulting from such estimates; and
(iv) a confirmation as to whether the budget requests for
impacted agencies were developed using the same estimates.
(c) The Secretary shall share the monthly estimates
developed pursuant to subsection (a) with the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, the
Secretary of State, and the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate.
(d) If the monthly estimates described in subsection (b)
are not provided for the purposes described, the
reprogramming and transfer authority provided in section 503
of this Act shall be suspended until such time as the
required estimates are provided to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate.
Sec. 538. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall, on
a monthly basis beginning immediately after the date of
enactment of this Act, develop estimates of the number of
individuals anticipated to be detained in and removed from
the United States.
(b) The Secretary shall ensure that, at a minimum, the
estimates developed pursuant to subsection (a)--
(1) cover the current fiscal year and the following fiscal
year;
(2) include a breakout by demographics, to include single
adults and family units;
(3) undergo an independent validation and verification
review;
(4) are used to inform policy planning and budgeting
processes within the Department of Homeland Security; and
(5) are included in the budget materials submitted to
Congress for each fiscal year beginning after the date of
enactment of this Act and in support of--
(A) the President's annual budget request pursuant to
section 1105 of title 31, United States Code;
(B) any supplemental funding request submitted to Congress;
(C) any reprogramming and transfer notification pursuant to
section 503 of this Act; and
(D) such budget materials shall include--
(i) the most recent monthly estimates developed pursuant to
subsection (a);
(ii) a description and quantification of the estimates used
to justify funding requests for Department programs related
to border security, immigration enforcement, and immigration
services;
(iii) a description and quantification of the anticipated
workload and requirements resulting from such estimates; and
(iv) a confirmation as to whether the budget requests for
impacted agencies were developed using the same estimates.
(c) The Secretary shall share the monthly estimates
developed pursuant to subsection (a) with the Attorney
General, the Secretary of State, and the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate.
(d) If the monthly estimates described in subsection (b)
are not provided for the purposes described, the
reprogramming and transfer authority provided in section 503
of this Act shall be suspended until such time as the
required estimates are provided to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate.
Sec. 539. (a) Prior to the Secretary of Homeland Security
requesting assistance from the Department of Defense for
border security operations, the Secretary shall ensure that
an alternatives analysis and cost-benefit analysis is
conducted before such request is made, which shall include an
examination of obtaining such support through other means.
(b) Not later than 30 days after the date on which a
request for assistance is made, the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate a report
detailing the types of support requested, the alternatives
analysis and cost-benefit analysis described in subsection
(a), and the operational impact to Department of Homeland
Security operations of any Department of Defense border
security support requested by the Secretary.
(c) Not later than 30 days after the date on which a
request made for assistance is granted and quarterly
thereafter through the duration of such assistance, the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate, a report detailing the assistance provided and the
operational impacts to border security operations.
Sec. 540. Funds made available in this Act or any other
Act for Operations and Support may be used for the necessary
expenses of providing an employee emergency back-up care
program.
Sec. 541. (a) Not less than $5,000,000 made available in
this Act shall be transferred to ``U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement--Operations and Support'' to support and
conduct necessary operations of the Blue Campaign for fiscal
year 2026.
(b) Prior to the obligation of funds made available by
subsection (a), notification shall be submitted to the
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate.
Sec. 542. (a) If the reporting requirement set forth in
paragraph (2) under the heading ``Federal Emergency
Management Agency--Disaster Relief Fund'' in the Department
of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law
114-4), as applied in this fiscal year by section 306 of this
Act, is not submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives and the Senate and published on
the Agency's website not later than the fifth business day of
the applicable month, the amount made available for ``Office
of the Secretary and Executive Management--Operations and
Support--Management and Oversight'' shall be reduced by
$100,000 for each day such report is not submitted and
published on the Agency's website.
(b) During any period in which the total number of requests
for reimbursement for a covered expense for individual
assistance or public assistance related to emergency (42
U.S.C. 5122(1)) or major disaster (42 U.S.C. 5122(2))
declarations under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) that the
Department of Homeland Security has been considering under
final review for greater than 60 days exceeds 500, the amount
made available for ``Office of the Secretary and Executive
Management--Operations and Support--Management and
Oversight'' shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day during
such period on which the cumulative total of requests over 60
days in final review exceeds 500.
(c) Subsection (b) shall not apply if the balance of
funding for the Disaster Relief Fund is sufficient only for
the purpose of obligating funds for activities determined to
be lifesaving or life-sustaining.
Sec. 543. Section 16005(c) of title VI of division B of
the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
(Public Law 116-136) shall be applied as if the language read
as follows: ``Subsection (a) shall apply until September 30,
2026.''.
Sec. 544. The levels for appropriations accounts specified
for classified programs in this Act shall conform to the
direction included in the classified annex accompanying this
Act and shall be implemented in a manner consistent with
section 545.
Sec. 545. Upon a determination by the Director of National
Intelligence that such action is necessary and in the
national interest, the Director may, with the approval of the
Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget, transfer amounts for the National
Intelligence Program consistent with the percentage caps
specified in section 503(c): Provided, That such authority
to transfer may not be used unless for higher priority items,
based on unforeseen intelligence requirements, than those for
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appropriated and in no case where the item for which funds
are requested has been denied by the Congress: Provided
further, That a request for any transfer of funds using
authority provided in this section shall be made consistent
with the requirements of section 503(d)(1).
Sec. 546. Within seven days of the date of enactment of
this Act, and quarterly thereafter, the Department shall
submit to the Committees on Appropriation of the House of
Representatives and the Senate--
(1) an obligation plan by program, project, or activity for
each component receiving funds from Public Law 119-21;
(2) estimated fee collections for each component collecting
new or enhanced fees authorized by Public Law 119-21,
delineated by collections that a component will retain and
collections that a component will remit to other agencies or
the Treasury; and
(3) an obligation plan by program, project, or activity for
fee collections identified in paragraph (2) as being retained
by a component within the Department.
Sec. 547. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available to the Department of Homeland Security by this
Act may be used to prevent any of the following persons from
entering, for the purpose of conducting oversight, any
facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland
Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens, or to make
any temporary modification at any such facility that in any
way alters what is observed by a visiting Member of Congress
or such designated employee, compared to what would be
observed in the absence of such modification:
(1) A Member of Congress.
(2) An employee of the United States House of
Representatives or the United States Senate designated by
such a Member for the purposes of this section.
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to require a
Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the intent to
enter a facility described in subsection (a) for the purpose
of conducting oversight.
(c) With respect to individuals described in subsection
(a)(2), the Department of Homeland Security may require that
a request be made at least 24 hours in advance of an intent
to enter a facility described in subsection (a).
Sec. 548. In addition to amounts otherwise made available
for such purposes, there is appropriated $30,000,000, for an
additional amount for ``The Judiciary--Supreme Court of the
United States--Salaries and Expenses'', to remain available
until September 30, 2028: Provided, That amounts made
available pursuant to this section shall be subject to the
same authorities and conditions as if such amounts were
provided under the heading ``The Judiciary--Supreme Court of
the United States--Salaries and Expenses'' in the Financial
Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2026.
Sec. 549. There is appropriated $140,000,000 for an
additional amount for ``Department of Transportation-Federal
Aviation Administration-Operations'' for air traffic
organization activities, to remain available until September
30, 2027: Provided, That the Administrator of the Federal
Aviation Administration shall only use such amounts to
provide a rate of pay increase for calendar year 2026 of 3.8
percent, for air traffic controllers, as defined by section
2109(1)(A) of title 5, United States Code, and air traffic
controller supervisors or managers who are not covered under
such section, but who manage air traffic: Provided further,
That such adjustment shall be implemented for all such
employees only to the extent the Administrator determines, in
his sole discretion, that improvements in workforce
scheduling, staffing utilization, or other operational
efficiencies are achieved that contribute to addressing
workforce shortfalls and enhancing aviation safety: Provided
further, That if the Administrator makes such determination,
then such adjustment shall be effective the first pay period
beginning after January 1, 2026: Provided further, That
amounts provided by this section shall be subject to the same
authorities and conditions as if such amounts were provided
by the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2026.
Sec. 550. (a) Of the total amount provided under the
heading ``Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency--
Operations and Support'', $99,750,000 shall be derived by
transfer from the unobligated balances of amounts previously
appropriated under the heading ``Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency--Cybersecurity Response and
Recovery Fund'' in division J of the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58).
(b) Amounts derived by transfer pursuant to this section
shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in section
103(b) of division A of Public Law 118-5.

(rescissions of funds)

Sec. 551. Of the funds appropriated to the Department of
Homeland Security, the following funds are hereby rescinded
from the following accounts and programs in the specified
amounts: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985:
(1) $73,327,000 from the unobligated balances available in
the ``Management Directorate--Procurement, Construction, and
Improvements'' account (70 22/26 0406).
(2) $6,713,000 from the unobligated balances available in
the ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection--Operations and
Support'' account (70 X 0530).
(3) $387,000 from the unobligated balances available in the
``U.S. Customs and Border Protection--Automation
Modernization'' account (70 X 0531).
(4) $917,000 from the unobligated balances available in the
``U.S. Customs and Border Protection--Procurement,
Construction, and Improvements'' account (70 X 0532).
(5) $6,336,000 from the unobligated balances available in
the ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection--Border Security
Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology'' account (70 X
0533).
(6) $1,413,000 from the unobligated balances available in
the ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection--Air and Marine
Interdiction, Operations, Maintenance, and Procurement''
account (70 X 0544).
(7) $172,000 from the unobligated balances available in the
``Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency--
Infrastructure Protection and Infrastructure Security''
account (70 X 0565).
Sec. 552. The following unobligated balances made
available to the Department of Homeland Security pursuant to
section 505 of the Department of Homeland Security
Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-47), as incorporated
by section 1101 of the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations
Act, 2025 (Public Law 119-4), are rescinded:
(1) $2,072,147 from ``Office of the Secretary and Executive
Management--Operations and Support''.
(2) $5,487,177 from ``Management Directorate--Operations
and Support''.
(3) $4,493,650 from ``Intelligence, Analysis, and
Situational Awareness--Operations and Support''.
(4) $88,190 from ``Office of the Inspector General--
Operations and Support''.
(5) $1,139,096 from ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection--
Operations and Support''.
(6) $19,650,000 from ``Transportation Security
Administration--Operations and Support''.
(7) $703,390 from ``United States Secret Service--
Operations and Support''.
(8) $52,349,050 from ``Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency--Operations and Support''.
(9) $18,525,975 from ``Federal Emergency Management
Agency--Operations and Support''.
(10) $120,860 from ``U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services--Operations and Support''.
(11) $178,340 from ``Science and Technology Directorate--
Operations and Support''.
(12) $6,937,020 from ``Countering Weapons of Mass
Destruction Office--Operations and Support''.
Sec. 553. Of the unobligated balances in the ``Department
of Homeland Security Nonrecurring Expenses Fund'' established
in section 538 of division F of Public Law 117-103,
$2,362,000 are hereby rescinded.
This division may be cited as the ``Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2026''.
SEC. 554. REPEAL OF SENATE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
RELATING TO LEGAL PROCESS ON DISCLOSURES OF SENATE DATA.
Section 213 of title II of division C of the Continuing
Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military
Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026,
and the amendments made by such section, are hereby repealed
and shall have no force or effect.' ''

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill, as amended, shall be debatable for
1 hour, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking
minority member of the Committee on Appropriations, or their respective
designees.
The gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole) and the gentlewoman from
Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) each will control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Oklahoma.

General Leave

Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include
extraneous material on the measure under consideration.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Oklahoma?
There was no objection.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 7147, the Department of
Homeland Security Appropriations Act.
This bill marks the final measure of our FY26 agenda. Our work here
is about one of the most important duties, which is keeping the
American people and our homeland safe.
This legislation delivers just that and upholds the America First
agenda through supporting border patrol enforcement agents, detention
and deportation efforts, cutting-edge technology to detect illicit
activity, and Coast Guard investments to counter Communist China's
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We enhance resources to combat fentanyl and other deadly drugs, while
safeguarding children through expanded investigation into human
trafficking and forced labor.
From our borders and ports to aviation and cyberspace, this
legislation delivers the personnel, training, and technology needed to
reinforce our defenses and confront those who wish us harm.
It also prioritizes strong and resilient communities by bolstering
disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. Subcommittee
Chairman Mark Amodei prioritized safety at every level. Even in the
face of political challenge, he and the ranking member, Mr. Cuellar of
Texas, worked together to produce a serious and responsible bill.
H.R. 7147 is focused on outcomes, not partisan rhetoric. It equips
frontline personnel, strengthens enforcement, and provides the
certainty DHS needs to carry out its mission effectively.
I thank our Members and staff for their work, and I urge support for
this bipartisan legislation.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

{time} 1330

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 4 minutes.
Mr. Speaker, I begin by thanking Ranking Member Cuellar for his work
on this bill. He is a tough negotiator, and this bill is better for his
efforts.
I also thank the committee staff. In particular, Shannon McCully,
Jamie Wise, and Jim Ellsworth. They spent many long hours and a lot of
sleepless nights fighting to make this bill as good as it could be.
The Homeland Security funding bill before us today has gotten a lot
of attention over the past few days, and rightfully so. It deals with
funding ICE, an agency that has shown itself to be lawless, vindictive,
aggressive, cruel, and, thus far, unaccountable both to Congress and
the American people.
That is not all that the Homeland Security bill deals with, however.
Before I return to the topic of ICE and its funding, I will share some
of what else is contained in this bill.
This bill rejects President Trump and Secretary Noem's attempts to
eliminate FEMA, increasing funding for the agency by over $870 million,
in addition to providing more than $26 billion for the Disaster Relief
Fund. It increases funding for TSA by $149 million and provides a pay
raise for air traffic controllers and uniformed members of the United
States Coast Guard.
This is important funding, and I am glad that these provisions which
we fought for were included in the bill. The final product, though far
from perfect, is better because of it.
Despite these inclusions and others, it is impossible to ignore the
impact that ICE's conduct had on completing this bill. ICE has operated
with brutality, terrorizing our constituents, abducting our neighbors,
and violently assaulting lawful residents who have done nothing but had
the misfortune of crossing ICE's path on their way home from work.
Unfortunately, this month, we saw how this unchecked lawlessness can
have fatal consequences with the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
This is a rogue agency. Substantial constraints must be placed on it.
During negotiations, we proposed such constraints, but our Republican
colleagues refused to include almost all of them.
We sought to prevent any funds from being used to detain or deport
U.S. citizens, a commonsense measure. They refused to commit to that.
We proposed prohibiting interior enforcement by non-ICE personnel,
like the Border Patrol. That was rejected, as well.
We put forward a provision to ensure that Members of Congress can
continue to conduct our lawful oversight of all ICE facilities,
uninhibited. That, too, was deemed unacceptable.
Democrats did win some battles in this bill, however. Under this
bill, we reduce ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations budget by $115
million. We reduce their detention capacity, providing funding that
could only be used for body-worn cameras. We increase funding for the
Office of Inspector General, specifically for oversight of ICE
detention facilities.
These are good provisions. I am glad they are in this bill, but it is
clear that more must be done. ICE believes it can act with impunity,
and it is behaving accordingly.
I trust that my colleagues have taken the time to review what is
contained in this bill and have determined for themselves what is best
for their constituents and communities. I have made my own
determination, and that determination leads me to a ``no'' vote on this
bill.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 6 minutes to the gentleman from Nevada
(Mr. Amodei), my very good friend and distinguished chairman of the
Subcommittee on Homeland Security of the Appropriations Committee.
Mr. AMODEI of Nevada. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of
the Homeland Security bill under consideration.
As the chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee, I thank the
full committee chair, Mr. Cole, my colleague from Oklahoma, for his
leadership in helping to return us to regular order and producing a
series of bills that will fully fund the government by the January 30
deadline.
I also thank my colleague from Connecticut, the ranking member, Rosa
DeLauro, who was part of this combination. We have seen them work
before in years past, both as the chairman of the full committee and as
folks on other subcommittees that have worked well. It has been a help
to all of us, and I thank them all publicly for their professionalism
and respect for each other in our process.
I also thank my good friend, subcommittee Ranking Member Cuellar, a
real pro. We don't agree all the time, but it is like it has never been
a disagreeable experience. There are days around this outfit when,
quite frankly, that isn't the case. I thank my friend. I appreciate
that. He has been a great partner.
Finally, I will take the time to thank the committee staff on both
sides of the aisle who worked tirelessly over the past month to
negotiate the product before us. On the majority side are Paul Anstine,
Anna Lanier Fischer, Fern Gibbons, Alessandra Ramirez, Ashley Truluck,
and Nkosi Thomas. On the minority side are Shannon McCully, Jamie Wise,
and Jim Ellsworth.
It was not cool to be on Appropriations during the last 30 days, for
sure, and they were real troupers, professionals, and class acts. I
thank them all for their dedication and effort.
I also remind everybody, because we get tied up in a lot of stuff,
that, essentially, the Homeland Security bill is the Coast Guard, FEMA,
TSA, Secret Service, Border Patrol, and ICE. There are other parts in
there, but that is the majority of what we are talking about. Homeland,
what is that? That is the agencies that take up the lion's share of
this sort of stuff.
As the chairmen, we would like to basically think that by having
those meetings, talking across the aisle and with our staffs, that what
we have produced is a bedrock model for going forward and getting us
out of the continuing resolution rut. Continuing resolutions lock us
into spending levels that are both outdated and have not evolved like,
frankly, the positions on both sides.

The fiscal year 2026 Homeland Security bill under consideration today
furthers this administration's goals of undoing the damage caused by
the previous administration, starting with the border. This funds the
President's priorities, codifies reductions and efficiencies, and
operationalizes border security and immigration enforcement investments
in the reconciliation process.
Mr. Speaker, let's start with ICE. I know people have lamented that,
boy, we really didn't get everything we wanted and all that stuff. It
is like, guess what. There is something that we should both be
celebrating here today, and it is about ICE.
Since the last administration wasn't real big on ICE, kind of maybe
hoped they didn't exist or whatever, one of the things that didn't
happen with respect to ICE, like all other law enforcement agencies
around, was the use and implementation of body cameras so that we don't
have to rely on somebody who happened to have their cell phone and have
a good angle, whether they are accusing or defending themselves for
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body cameras for ICE personnel so that we can have first-person, if you
will, access to what people really think was done.
Would you like a pay raise for the Coast Guard? This bill does that.
Would you like more infrastructure for the Coast Guard? This bill
does that.
Would you like grants for first responders and nonprofit religious
worship institutions? This bill does that.
The foundation is undeniable. As the tax on houses of worship has
increased over the last few years, we are providing more money for
that.
Finally, we ensure that CISA, the agency that is charged with
protecting our critical infrastructure, like power and water, has the
resources required to prevent attacks from nation-state adversaries
like China and Russia.
Simply put, this bill ensures that the men and women of the
Department of Homeland Security, who work tirelessly to keep America
safe, have the resources and tools that they need to protect this great
Nation.
I ask my colleagues to continue to support the bill.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from
Texas (Mr. Cuellar), the distinguished ranking member of the Homeland
Security Subcommittee.

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Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill, but first,
I want to thank the chairmen of the subcommittees and the full
committee and my ranking member for their leadership. Certainly, I also
thank the staff on both sides for the hard work that they have provided
on this difficult bill.
I represent 280 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. Let me be the first
to say this bill is not perfect. However, this bill is better than the
alternatives of either funding the Department under a continuing
resolution or shutting down the government. That is the choice in front
of us.
This bill puts real requirements on the Department. It provides
oversight and makes targeted investments that directly help States and
local communities to make sure that we help folks like firefighters and
other folks.
Let me say this: It is better than the alternative, leaving the
Department with a blank check, virtually unchecked by the Committee on
Appropriations and Congress.
Allowing DHS to operate under a continuing resolution or trying to
shut it down, ICE would ensure that they have no direction from
Congress.
This bill flat-funds ICE, but at the same time, we also strengthen
the oversight of ICE by increasing funding to the inspector general by
over $38 million over fiscal year 2025. That includes $20 million to do
additional inspections of ICE facilities and $12.8 million to provide
oversight of the Department for the funds that they got under
reconciliation.
It also provides, as the gentleman said a few minutes ago, $20
million for body-worn cameras, specifically for CBP and ICE, which are
conducting immigration enforcement. It also provides funding to
increase training for CBP and ICE agents for deescalation tactics.
Let me say this: We did try to fight more. Unfortunately, we couldn't
reach an agreement with our Republican friends, but we did not walk
away from the work of putting the oversight into law that this bill
provides.
We also provide funding accountability to the Office of Civil Rights
and Civil Liberties and the Office of Citizenship and Immigration
Services, which is, again, something that they tried to close.
Let me be clear: ICE can operate based on the funds that they were
provided under reconciliation, but we cannot say the same thing to
other departments or other agencies under DHS, especially when we talk
about FEMA. FEMA gets $5.7 billion, including $3.8 billion for Federal
assistance, which is a 20-percent increase above fiscal year 2025.
Again, that money goes back to help firefighters and disasters.
Again, it also provides money to CISA. As you know, there were cuts,
but we are providing money there to make sure that we fight the threats
to our critical infrastructure that we are seeing across the country.
Finally, this provides funding in the amount of a $550 million
increase for the Coast Guard because, again, we have to make sure the
Coast Guard gets the funding, especially when it comes to funding drug
interdiction.
Again, I say this: Is this bill perfect? No. However, a continuing
resolution provides no oversight, and ICE also gets funding from the
reconciliation.
Mr. Speaker, the bottom line is simple. This bill is better than the
alternative.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
Washington (Mr. Newhouse), my very good friend.
Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Cole for yielding.
Mr. Speaker, the fiscal year 2026 Homeland Security appropriations
bill is the culmination of the hard work of our committee and our staff
and provides critical investments to protect the American homeland.
As a member of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security, I know that
this bill champions public safety and preparedness. It protects
taxpayer dollars and refocuses the Department on its core functions.
With border encounters at a historic low, this legislation fully
funds DHS and the effort to detain and remove violent, illegal
immigrants from our communities.
In central Washington, we know firsthand the important work done by
the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This bill increases FEMA grant
programs by 5 percent above their previous levels and restores critical
staffing positions lost under the fiscal year 2025 continuing
resolution. It also delivers funds directly to communities across the
country, including my own Yakima County, to establish a dedicated
emergency operation center and ensure timely and well-coordinated
emergency response efforts.
The U.S. Coast Guard is fundamental in protecting our border and
domestic security. This bill boosts funding for the Coast Guard and
provides funding to counter China's footprint in the Indo-Pacific.
Lastly, as a member of the Select Committee on the CCP, the Chinese
Communist Party, I am pleased to see this bill refocuses the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, or CISA, on its core
cybersecurity mission and rightsizes the agency to preserve critical
functions. This includes funding to counter threats from adversarial
nations and ensure critical infrastructure systems are protected from
these threats.
Mr. Speaker, this Homeland Security bill is the last piece in
completing 12 fiscally responsible, bipartisan spending bills. It is a
testament to--
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the
gentleman from Washington.
Mr. NEWHOUSE. It is a testament to the hard work of the committee and
subcommittee leadership on both sides of the aisle and the dedicated
staff that spent an untold amount of time to make this process work.
Mr. Speaker, I encourage all of my colleagues on both sides to
support this negotiated bill that provides the resources necessary to
secure our borders, protect Americans here at home, and ensure we are
being good stewards of taxpayer dollars.

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from
Massachusetts (Ms. Clark), the distinguished Democratic whip.
Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, today is not about ICE
funding. Republicans already gave ICE $75 billion. Today is about the
fact that we have a masked paramilitary force terrorizing our
communities.
Republicans had the opportunity in this bill to enact commonsense
checks on ICE operations. They refused.
First, they refused to ensure ICE abides by the same laws and
procedures as our local and State police: that they are unmasked when
on duty, that they actually wear the body cameras, that they wear a
name plate identifying who they are, and that they are held responsible
for excessive force.
Second, the GOP refused to join us in upholding the Constitution. Not
only are these arrests warrantless, but ICE has also now determined
they have the right to search your home without a judicial warrant.
That is illegal, and it is unconstitutional.
Third, they refused to make sure that the use of deadly force is
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thoroughly investigated. When Renee Good was shot to death, Kristi Noem
declared her a domestic terrorist within hours. The only investigation
Noem was interested in was an investigation into Renee Good's widow.
That is not justice. That is not security for the American people.
Fourth, Republicans refused to agree to the simple concept that
American citizens should not be detained and deported. The people going
about their business should not be kidnapped because of the color of
their skin or because they are engaging in peaceful protests.
Finally, Republicans refused to prioritize the very real work that
DHS does in our communities: stopping fentanyl trafficking, stopping
child trafficking, and stopping cartels. DHS is taking those
investigators off those cases and putting them on ICE raids. It is at
the expense of our national security.
When the GOP can't even agree to commonsense guardrails, it is clear
this isn't about immigration. This isn't about security. This is about
state-sanctioned terror. This is about the political retribution of a
vengeful President.
I will not rubberstamp the Federal Government's use of political
violence against its own people, and I am asking every Member to join
me in voting ``no.''
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
Florida (Mr. Rutherford), my very good friend and a former law
enforcement official and sheriff.

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Mr. RUTHERFORD. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of the fiscal
year 2026 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act and urge
my colleagues to do the same.
This bill champions public safety, and it refocuses the Department of
Homeland Security back on its fundamental mission that was really lost
sight of during the Biden administration.
This legislation, Mr. Speaker, provides funding to important agencies
to defend the Nation against the threat posed by terrorists, criminals,
and foreign adversaries.
It aligns with President Trump's agenda to close our border and
supports local, State, and Federal law enforcement officers that are
deporting dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities.
Mr. Speaker, this bill gives TSA the resources to keep the flying
public safe while getting rid of wasteful programs like VIPR.
It supports CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency, which is securing vital infrastructure from adversaries like
China.
It also provides FEMA with the resources it needs to support
communities following disasters, and it invests in the Coast Guard, who
is keeping fentanyl and other dangerous drugs off our shores and out of
our communities.
This bill, Mr. Speaker, puts America first. It protects Americans and
secures our homeland, and I urge all my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on
this bill.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from
Minnesota (Ms. McCollum), the distinguished ranking member of the
Defense Subcommittee.
Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this bill.
This year, Minnesota has witnessed a state of unbelievable violence,
which has led to chaos and terror at the hands of President Trump and
DHS.
Minnesotans are being racially profiled on a mass scale, assaulted on
our streets, and kidnapped from our communities. Just the other day, a
5-year-old child was used as bait to get members of his household to
come out so masked people in front of this 5-year-old could handcuff
and carry family members away.
Masked Federal agents are seizing parents, yes, in front of terrified
children, and many of these people we are finding had no record and
were here legally.
American citizens and permanent residents are snatched from their
cars, and they are taken to detention centers. I worked on one case
this past weekend. It was cold, and a woman was warming up her car. She
was taken out of her car. She was taken to Whipple. Then she was taken
to Sherburne County and then back to Whipple again. Oh, and in between,
she had to go to the hospital because of a head injury, and her arms,
her wrists, might be suffering permanent damage. This was a citizen, a
citizen, mind you.
This is the worst case of mass civil rights violations by the Federal
Government in recent history.
Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ago, Minnesota stood up to call out these
illegal abuses by masked Federal agents, and a citizen, a mother of
three in Minneapolis, Renee Good, was shot and killed.
It is happening right here, right now in Minnesota in the United
States of America, and it needs to stop now. Not one penny of our
taxpayer dollars should go to DHS while our constitutional rights are
being violated.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the
gentlewoman from Minnesota.
Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, in my last 30 seconds let me just say:
Vote no. Vote for our constitutional rights. Vote for due process. Vote
``no'' on this bill.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
Missouri (Mr. Alford), my very good friend and distinguished gentleman
who is also the vice-chair of the Military Construction, Veterans
Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Appropriations
Committee.
Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Speaker, this moment matters. For too long, we here
in Washington have governed by crisis. We rushed preholiday omnibuses,
backroom deals, and broken promises.
Mr. Speaker, those days are over.
Today, following President Trump's America First agenda, along with
Chairman Tom Cole's unmatched leadership, we are doing what the
American people sent us here to Washington, D.C., to do: Put America
first.
Mr. Speaker, 12 out of 12 appropriations bills will be passed today,
including Homeland Security. These are transparent bills, accountable
bills, and fiscally responsible bills.
This hasn't happened in years, and it sends a clear, powerful message
back home that the House is back at work. We are back to governing.
These bills strengthen our military, secure our border, invest in
health and workforce readiness, modernize transportation, and deliver
real savings for taxpayers.
It is peace through strength. This Homeland bill makes us safer at
home by deporting illegal criminal aliens.
In the overall bills through our Member-directed investments, we are
expanding Skyhaven Airport to improve safety and grow aviation training
at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg.
We are launching a workforce training center for ag in Sedalia to
prepare the next generation.
We are replacing a failing bridge so first responders, schoolbuses,
and commerce can move safely and reliably in Oak Grove, Missouri.
These are reasonable Member-directed investments in America, our true
Article I authority.
Mr. Speaker, we are just inches away from the finish line. Let's not
slow this down. Let's get over the finish line. Let's deliver now for
what the American people sent us here to do: Donald J. Trump's America
First agenda backed by 12 appropriation bills passed out of this House,
signed by the President. Let's fund our government.

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from
Florida (Ms. Lois Frankel), the distinguished ranking member of the
National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs
Subcommittee.
Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition
to this Homeland Security funding bill.
We cannot continue to fund an agency that ignores the Constitution,
abandons due process, interrupts businesses, and traumatizes families.
Across the country, ICE enforcement is no longer about public safety.
It has become a campaign of cruelty and fear. Families are being torn
apart with no warning and no plan. Children are afraid to go to school.
Homes are being entered without warrants. Workers are being dragged off
of jobsites by their hair. People are being abducted when shopping for
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citizens are being pepper-sprayed and shot in cold blood for daring to
speak up.
When Members of Congress try to conduct oversight, we are blocked. We
are denied access. We are told to look the other way.
This is not law enforcement.
This is not accountability.
That is not who we are as a country.
This bill writes a check for an agency that is violating basic rights
while refusing basic oversight. It pours money into detention and
enforcement without guardrails, without transportation, and without
respect for human dignity.
I want to be clear. Security does not require cruelty. Enforcement
does not require lawlessness, and immigration policy should never
require us to abandon our values.
Yes, we need border security and an orderly immigration system, but
we can secure our borders and uphold due process and enforce the law
and protect families. This bill does neither, and until the Trump
administration ends these abuses, restores transparency, and respects
the Constitution, I cannot and will not support funding that enables
this harm.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from
North Dakota (Mrs. Fedorchak), my very good friend.
Mrs. FEDORCHAK. Mr. Speaker, first I want to commend Chairman Tom
Cole for leading the appropriations process as intended by our
Founders.
Fiscal year `26 will mark the first time in decades that Congress has
funded the Federal Government through all 12 appropriations bills
without reverting to a yearlong continuing resolution. As a freshman, I
committed to working this process to this end during my time in
Congress. I never dreamed I would see it my first year. I thank Mr.
Cole for his leadership.
Now, I rise today on behalf of North Dakota farmers and rural
communities to support the step included in this measure to move
forward on year-round E15.
Farmers are hurting. Across the country, input costs and interest
costs are up. Our producers are also dealing with tariff pressures and
shifting markets, and at the same time, commodity prices are down. That
is a difficult combination for anyone.
The future of many farm families hangs in the balance both in my
State and many others throughout the heartland.
Year-round E15 offers immediate relief without costing the Federal
Government anything. This is a top priority for farmers in my State and
across our Nation. E15 provides an immediate, strong, domestic market
for their bountiful harvest.

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E15 is homegrown energy. Year-round E15 eliminates regulatory
uncertainty that prevents the industry from flourishing. It will add
$25.3 billion to the U.S. GDP and support more than 128,000 full-time
jobs. President Trump and Secretary Rollins support this effort. Rural
America is counting on us to deliver.
Mr. Speaker, please join me, and let's get this done.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from
Texas (Ms. Escobar), who is a member of the Appropriations Committee.
Ms. ESCOBAR. Mr. Speaker, as a member of the House Homeland Security
Appropriations Subcommittee, I stand today in opposition to this
Homeland Security appropriations bill.
I want to be very clear. The bill that passed out of committee had
protections for U.S. citizens against what we are seeing playing out in
Minnesota and other American cities. During our debate in the House
Appropriations Committee, I successfully amended the bill to include
language that would prevent ICE from apprehending and deporting U.S.
citizens. When the bill was reported out of committee, it included my
amendment.
However, during negotiations, I was told that the White House,
Stephen Miller in particular, stripped my amendment from the bill. This
means that Donald Trump does not want to protect U.S. citizens.
Let that sink in, Mr. Speaker.
Donald Trump does not want U.S. citizens protected from being
detained and deported by ICE.
The Trump agenda has never been about apprehending and deporting the
worst of the worst. Their own statistics prove that. Their stories
reported by journalists on the ground prove that, and eyewitness and
firsthand accounts prove that.
U.S. citizens, alongside lawful immigrants and members of vibrant
communities, including children as young as 5 years old, are being
targeted by ICE and Border Patrol in the kinds of abuses many of us
never believed would happen in America: indiscriminate stops on the
streets, racial profiling, people dragged from their cars and their
homes, legal observers physically assaulted for documenting abuses,
theft and destruction of property, and people being killed by agents.
Violations of law, violations of the Constitution, and violations of
civil rights are happening here in America at the hands of the American
Government, specifically, the Department of Homeland Security. This
cannot stand.
Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to vote ``no.''
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from
California (Mr. Takano), who is the distinguished ranking member of the
Veterans' Affairs Committee.
Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in vehement opposition to giving one
more red cent to ICE and CBP until we see accountability and reforms in
this DHS funding bill. Under Secretary Noem's and President Trump's
action, ICE and CBP have turned from law enforcement agencies into
something much more dark and much more sinister.
Americans are scared by masked agents roaming our streets arresting
anyone in eyesight whom they deem to be a threat, not a court of law.
They are terrified that they could be the next Renee Good or one of the
many who have died in for-profit detention camps. They worry about
sending their kids to school or doing right by the law and attending
routine immigration hearings.
It cannot continue. Today, Congress has a chance to act.
Now, I understand that there are some decent parts to this bill
unrelated to ICE or the CBP. However, giving more taxpayer dollars to
fund this wave of violence without accountability for past abuses and
reforms to prevent more tragedies is not just a mistake, it is
complicity.
Instead, we need courage, courage to demand guardrails that every
single America can support. When there is a shooting or another abuse,
an independent investigation should be standard.
Mr. Speaker, when ICE kicks down your door, a warrant signed by a
judge must be present. If you are speaking Spanish, Mr. Speaker, or
have skin color that is other than white, you should not be detained
just because of how you look or the language you speak.
Mr. Speaker, should you encounter an immigration officer, they should
no longer be able to shield themselves from accountability behind a
face mask.
In the United States of America, nobody should feel like they have to
carry a passport in their own country to prove that they are a citizen
or a legal permanent resident. No American should be made, Mr. Speaker,
to carry a passport in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New
York (Mr. Nadler).
Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this
legislation because I cannot, in good conscience, vote to spend one
more cent on ICE. I will not fund an agency that acts like an American
gestapo.
The Trump administration has launched a brutal and reckless campaign
to strike fear in immigrant communities across the country, and ICE is
on the front lines, using aggressive and violent tactics that too often
end in tragedy. I cannot support one more cent for an agency that would
recklessly take the life of Renee Good, an innocent and defenseless
young woman.
I cannot support one more cent for masked agents arresting U.S.
citizens, pulling people out of their homes, tearing children away from
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and stating that it is exempt from the constitutional requirement for
search warrants. I cannot support one more cent for detention
facilities with the highest death rate in decades and that fail to meet
the basic medical needs of detainees. No wonder they refuse to allow
access to Members of Congress.

To support one more cent for an agency with such disregard for the
rule of law and basic human decency would be a moral outrage.
Mr. Speaker, vote ``no'' on this legislation.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman
from Rhode Island (Mr. Magaziner).
Mr. MAGAZINER. Yesterday, at this time, Liam Ramos was at his
preschool in Minneapolis, and today, as we speak, he is in a prison
cell in Texas against the will of his parents.
Mr. Speaker, what are we doing here?
I am a member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and under the
Biden administration, I pushed for more resources to secure the border.
I know that we need to enforce immigration laws, but not like this.
They are sending masked agents into American neighborhoods. They are
beating people in the streets. They are breaking into homes without a
judicial warrant, profiling people based on their appearance or their
accent, and detaining them if they don't have their citizenship papers
on them.
Mr. Speaker, is this what we have become, a country where everyone
has to carry their citizenship papers around in case masked men come
and threaten to beat them, detain them, and throw them into a vehicle?
Is that what we have become?
By the Department of Homeland Security's own data, the vast majority
of the people whom they have detained have no criminal record at all.
They are detaining and deporting U.S. military veterans, children with
cancer, and pregnant women. We don't have to do it like this. We can
enforce immigration laws without this level of cruelty.
Now they are asking us to give them a blank check to continue funding
this. We, as a Congress, need to start doing our jobs and put
commonsense guardrails in place.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this bill until
there are real guardrails in the way that DHS is behaving.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, as I said in my opening, this is a bill that has gotten
so much attention over the past few days, and I think that that is the
reality of where we are.
I have watched this bill over the years, and it has always been a
struggle to deal with the Homeland Security bill. I thought that we
were really on track to be able, this time around, to make some
significant progress in the Homeland Security bill, and we were on
track to do that.
However, then we watched unfold an unspeakable tragedy in Minnesota:
the unspeakable loss of a young woman who was killed.

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We have heard from my colleagues from Minnesota not just about the
killing of Renee Nicole Good, but of the other unspeakable
transgressions by an agency that has made a determination that they are
not accountable to anyone, to no law, no rule of law, and even no
higher calling of understanding how you treat human beings.
They have run roughshod over United States citizens. No one here
believes that criminals in this Nation shouldn't be deported or that
they shouldn't face the legal system that we have because the strength
of the United States is that we are a nation of laws; that we abide by
the rule of law. This agency is defying this at every step of the way,
every day, with the sanctioning of the President of the United States
saying that we are going to work to increase the pain, that we are
going to detain and potentially deport United States citizens.
We asked for some simple reforms: Don't deport United States
citizens. Require the training and hiring of personnel that are
competent and capable for this job.
Do you know that training has gone from 5 to 8 months to 6 to 8
weeks? The sensitivity around this issue has been broken, and the trust
of the American people and the people of Minnesota has been broken.
Children are frightened. Families are frightened. There is no need for
that in this country.
We need to have the rule of law reinstated. We can't have masked,
armed people on the street pulling over anyone that they choose to
based on the color of their skin or how they look.
I said this in the Rules Committee when I testified. I actually have
two grandsons who are adopted. I have one from Guatemala. Yes, he is
brown-skinned, but he is a citizen. He lives in Los Angeles. I find
myself telling him, ``Make sure you carry your passport,'' because it
scares me that, because of his brown skin, he can be pulled aside,
detained, and deported. He is a United States citizen.
My other grandson's parentage is Uzbekistan, but he is a United
States citizen. He is a youngster, and he could be snatched up and
separated from us.
This is the United States of America. We have watched and focused on
Iran. We watched the SAVAK in Iran take people off the street, detain
them, kill them, and never heard from them again. We are not going down
that road. We cannot go down that road. The Congress cannot take us
down that road.
I was hopeful, as the ranking member of the Appropriations
Committee--and my colleague and the chair knows this--to get what we
need to get done, and we were on the road. We were on a good track, but
we have to face the circumstances.
We have to deal with the environment. We have to deal with what has
happened in this country. We cannot turn a blind eye. We cannot say
let's overlook it because if we overlook it, it will not get better. It
is our responsibility now to make it better so that we can turn this
around and make this agency work.
I am not for abolishing ICE. There will be a lot of people who are
going to be unhappy with my saying that, but so be it. We need to
reform it. We need to turn it around. We need to make it work on behalf
of the American people, not make it the fear that a KGB, a SAVAK, or
other agencies have had in other countries that we oppose. We can't go
down the road of making that who we are. It is our responsibility. It
is our responsibility.
I have said to my colleagues over and over again: Make the decision
based on where your heart is and what you believe in. This is a moment
and a vote that says you have to determine what you believe is the
right thing to do, and that is the basis on which to do it. I have made
that decision, and the right thing for me to do is to vote ``no'' on
this bill.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
I want to begin by thanking two outstanding appropriators: Mr.
Amodei, the chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of
Appropriations, and his working partner and colleague, the ranking
member, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Cuellar). They have done an
extraordinary job on this bill.
We have heard a lot of rhetoric today. Not much of it has anything to
do with what is in the bill. The bill itself is a good, strong bill. It
is a bill for, frankly, the two Members who worked well together. It is
not a perfect bill, as my friend Mr. Cuellar said, certainly not from
his perspective, but it is a solid bill. There are no poison pills in
this bill.
It focuses on making the American people more secure. It does so
economically and efficiently, and it does so in a way that, honestly,
should make every member of the committee proud.
This is a difficult bill to bring forward, no doubt about that. Each
side has struggled with it over the years. I am very proud that the
ranking member and the chairman worked together to bring a bill to the
floor. That has not happened in a long, long time. Usually, it just
sort of gets muddled in. It says a great deal about their
professionalism and their cooperation.
If you listened to the debate, you would think we have law
enforcement in chaos and that somehow our country is not secure. Quite
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should be commended for what he and his administration have
accomplished in a matter of weeks and months that most of us thought
would take years.
Our borders are secure. They are more secure now than they have ever
been. It wasn't that long ago that I was on this floor talking about
15,000 a day, 10,000 a day coming in illegally. That has stopped.
As a consequence of that, crime has gone down, not up. That is a
great success for the American people. Drug trafficking is down, not
up. That is a great success for the American people. The scourge of
human trafficking, the exploitation of usually young women and young
men, has been dramatically lowered. That is thanks to President Trump,
the people who he has put in charge of our border security and our
internal security, and the hard work of our Coast Guard.
There is a lot in this bill that has nothing to do with ICE. We fund
the Border Patrol here. Are we supposed to not pay those men and women
who have kept us secure? We fund the Coast Guard, which, as my friends
point out and the distinguished chair of this committee pointed out,
has been refocused on some of the maritime security issues,
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This bill deals with FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
If you are voting against this bill, you are voting against funding the
people who will help you in a hurricane and a tornado or a disaster of
some sort. Why in the world should they be penalized?
I think we should look at the bill in its totality. We should look at
the difficulty of the task that we asked the chairman and the ranking
member to do. We should thank them for the hard work and wisdom that
they both exhibited in bringing this product to the floor.
Mr. Speaker, I do worry about the rhetoric around this bill. I
personally believe it is not intentional, but it is reckless
encouraging people to believe that we have masses of bad actors in a
particular agency. Some of the rhetoric--mostly not on this floor, let
me say that--that I have heard in the country about comparing law
enforcement officers to the gestapo or the Nazis, that is terrible.
That is not true. That is not who they are. That is not what they do.
That kind of rhetoric, when we hear it and wherever we hear it from, is
dangerous and reckless and wrong.
We have had a good debate here today on a variety of bills, and I
will end on a little more positive note.
Mr. Speaker, I, again, thank my friend, the ranking member, for her
work. We don't always agree on everything. This bill is probably an
example of that, but we work together well and professionally. One of
the reasons we can consider this bill separately is my friend made that
request and made it very convincingly to me. I know she is a person of
good faith, and I will work with her wherever I can.
Again, I thank her for her friendship and leadership. We will not
agree on this matter today, on this particular item, but there is much,
much more that we agree on than we disagree on. We would not have
gotten to this point without working together.
Having said that, I do think this is pretty clear, Mr. Speaker. The
right thing to do here is to fund the people that protect America, that
defend our borders, that help us in times of disaster, and, yes, who
find criminals who have come into the country illegally, committed
crimes, and make sure they are expelled. That makes America safer and
better and more secure.
I thank the President and his administration for doing that. I think
we should rally around them and show our support for what they have
done by passing this legislation.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield
back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Messmer). All time for debate has
expired.
Pursuant to House Resolution 1014, the previous question is ordered
on the bill, as amended.
The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was
read the third time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on passage of the bill.
Pursuant to clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered.
Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question
will be postponed.

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