[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 18, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S1305]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4649. Ms. ALSOBROOKS submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill S. 1383, to establish the Veterans Advisory 
Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. REDIRECTING FUNDING FOR U.S. IMMIGRATION AND 
                   CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT TO THE MEDICARE PART A 
                   TRUST FUND.

       (a) Recision of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
     Appropriations.--Sections 90003 and 100052 of Public Law 119-
     21 (139 Stat. 358, 387) (commonly known as the ``One Big 
     Beautiful Bill Act'') are repealed and the unobligated 
     balances of amounts made available under those sections (as 
     in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this 
     Act) are rescinded.
       (b) Appropriations to Medicare Trust Fund.--In addition to 
     amounts otherwise made available, there is appropriated to 
     the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund under section 1817 
     of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i) for fiscal year 
     2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
     appropriated, $75,000,000,000, to remain available until 
     expended.

     SEC. ___. REPEAL OF RECONCILIATION HEALTH PROVISIONS.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), 
     subtitle B of title VII of An Act to provide for 
     reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14 
     (Public Law 119-21) is repealed and any law or regulation 
     referred to in such subtitle shall be applied as if such 
     subtitle and the amendments made by such subtitle had not 
     been enacted.
       (b) Exceptions.--
       (1) In general.--subsection (a) shall not apply to the 
     provisions of and amendments made by sections 71202, 71306, 
     and 71401 of such Act.
       (2) Availability of funds under the rural health 
     transformation program.--Section 2105(h) of the Social 
     Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397ee(h)), as added by Public Law 
     119-21, is amended--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(B)--
       (i) in the subparagraph heading by striking ``Unexpended or 
     unobligated'' and inserting ``Availability of'';
       (ii) by striking clauses (i) through (iii) and inserting 
     the following:
       ``(i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), funds allocated 
     to a State from amounts appropriated under subparagraph (A) 
     shall remain available until expended.''; and
       (iii) by redesignating clause (iv) as clause (ii); and
       (B) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ``paragraph 
     (1)(B)(iv)'' and inserting ``paragraph (1)(B)(ii)''.
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