Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 97 (Tuesday, June 9, 2026)

[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 9, 2026)]
[House]
[Pages H4017-H4029]
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SECURE AMERICA ACT

Mr. ARRINGTON. Madam Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1345, I
call up the bill (S. 2) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title
II of S. Con. Res. 33, and ask for its immediate consideration.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Van Duyne). Pursuant to House Resolution
1345, the bill is considered read.
The text of the bill is as follows:

S. 2

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Secure
America Act''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act
is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

TITLE I--COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS

Sec. 101. U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel.
Sec. 102. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Sec. 103. Border security, technology, and screening.
Sec. 104. Additional Department of Homeland Security appropriations.

TITLE II--COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

Sec. 201. U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Sec. 202. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Sec. 203. Additional Department of Homeland Security appropriations.

TITLE I--COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS

SEC. 101. U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION PERSONNEL.

(a) Personnel.--In addition to amounts otherwise available,
there is appropriated to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and
Border Protection for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $9,550,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2029, to hire, pay,
train, and equip Border Patrol agents and Border Patrol
support personnel to conduct functions other than immigration
enforcement and customs functions.
(b) Restriction.--None of the funds made available by
subsection (a) may be used to recruit, hire, or train
personnel for the duties of processing coordinators after
October 31, 2028.

SEC. 102. U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT.

SEC. 103. BORDER SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY, AND SCREENING.

(a) In General.--In addition to amounts otherwise
available, there is appropriated to the Commissioner of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection for fiscal year 2026, out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to
remain available until September 30, 2029, $3,450,000,000 for
the following:
(1) Procurement and integration of new nonintrusive
inspection equipment and associated civil works, including
artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other
innovative technologies, as well as other mission support, to
combat the entry or exit of illicit narcotics at ports of
entry and along the southwest, northern, and maritime
borders.
(2) Air and Marine operations' upgrading and procurement of
new platforms for rapid air and marine response capabilities.
(3) Upgrades and procurement of border surveillance
technologies along the southwest, northern, and maritime
borders.
(4) Necessary expenses, including the deployment of
technology, relating to the biometric entry and exit system
under section 7208 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
Prevention Act of 2004 (8 U.S.C. 1365b).
(5) Enhancing border security by combating drug
trafficking, including fentanyl and its precursor chemicals,
at the southwest, northern, and maritime borders.
(6) Necessary expenses for U.S. Customs and Border
Protection's mission support and operations and maintenance
for functions other than those related to its immigration
enforcement and customs missions.
(b) Restrictions.--None of the funds made available under
subsection (a) may be used for the procurement or deployment
of surveillance towers along the southwest border and
northern border that have not been tested and accepted by
U.S. Customs and Border Protection to deliver autonomous
capabilities.
(c) Definition of Autonomous.--In this section, with
respect to capabilities, the term ``autonomous'' means a
system designed to apply artificial intelligence, machine
learning, computer vision, or other algorithms to accurately
detect, identify, classify, and track items of interest in
real time such that the system can make operational
adjustments without the active engagement of personnel or
continuous human command or control.

SEC. 104. ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
APPROPRIATIONS.

In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are
appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security for fiscal
year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, $2,500,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2029, for the purposes provided in this title.

TITLE II--COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

SEC. 201. U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION.

In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is
appropriated to the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $13,020,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2029, for hiring,
paying, training, and equipping U.S. Customs and Border
Protection agents, and the necessary support staff, and to
provide other necessary expenses for U.S. Customs and Border
Protection mission support and operations and maintenance, in
order to carry out immigration enforcement activities.

SEC. 202. U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT.

In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is
appropriated to the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $31,075,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2029, for the following
purposes:
(1) Hiring, paying, and training.--Hiring, paying,
training, and equipping U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement personnel and the personnel for all its
directorates, including officers, agents, investigators,
attorneys and support staff, to carry out immigration
enforcement activities.
(2) Transportation.--Funding for transportation costs and
related costs associated with alien departure or removal
operations.
(3) Information technology.--Funding for information
technology maintenance and sustainment to support enforcement
and removal operations, including improvements to fee
collections and body-worn cameras.
(4) Facility maintenance and sustainment.--Funding for
facility maintenance and sustainment to support enforcement
and removal operations.
(5) Fleet maintenance and sustainment.--Funding for fleet
maintenance and sustainment to support enforcement and
removal operations.
(6) 287(g) agreements.--Supporting coordination with state
and local authorities by expanding, facilitating, and
implementing agreements under section 287(g) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)).
(7) Office of the principal legal advisor.--Hiring and
paying attorneys and the necessary support staff within the
Office of the Principal Legal Advisor to represent the
Department in immigration enforcement and removal
proceedings.
(8) Operation and maintenance.--Necessary expenses for U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement's mission support,
including awards, and operations and maintenance for its
immigration enforcement functions.
(9) Operations by u.s. immigration and customs enforcement
to arrest released covered unlawful aliens.--
(A) In general.--Not less than $350,000,000 for U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement for necessary expenses,
in accordance

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with existing law, of detainer management, detainer issuance,
custodial transfer, release monitoring, transportation, and
arrests of covered unlawful aliens encountered in
jurisdictions that are not qualified cooperating
jurisdictions, except that no Indian tribal government shall
be treated as a jurisdiction that is not a qualified
cooperating jurisdiction for purposes of this subparagraph.
(B) Qualified cooperating jurisdiction defined.--In this
paragraph, the term ``qualified cooperating jurisdiction''
means a State or political subdivision of a State that, as of
the date of the enactment of this Act--
(i) is party to a written agreement in effect under section
287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1357(g)); or
(ii) has in effect, and has filed with the Secretary in
such form and manner as the Secretary may prescribe, a
certification that such State or political subdivision is in
compliance with section 642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform
and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373) and
section 434 of the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1644).
(C) Limitation on use of funds.--None of the funds
appropriated pursuant to this paragraph may be used, except
as required by existing law, to release, parole, place on
alternatives to detention, transport for purposes of release,
or otherwise facilitate the release into the community of any
covered unlawful alien encountered.
(D) Covered unlawful alien defined.--In this paragraph, the
term ``covered unlawful alien'' means an adult alien who--
(i) is described in section 236(c)(1) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1226(c)(1));
(ii) is inadmissible under section 212(a)(2) of such Act (8
U.S.C. 1182(a)(2));
(iii) is deportable under section 237(a)(2) of such Act (8
U.S.C. 1227(a)(2));
(iv) following an arrest, charge, booking, or conviction
for a criminal offense under Federal, State, or local law,
other than a minor traffic offense, is the subject of an
immigration detainer, notice request, or custody-transfer
request issued by the Department of Homeland Security
pursuant to section 236, 241(a), or 287 of such Act (8 U.S.C.
1226, 1231(a), or 1357); or
(v) has been charged with or convicted of an offense
described in section 275 or 276 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1325 or
1326).

SEC. 203. ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
APPROPRIATIONS.

In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is
appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security for fiscal
year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, $2,500,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2029, for the purposes provided in this title
or in paragraph (3) or (7) of section 100051 of Public Law
119-21.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill shall be debatable for 1 hour,
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member
of the Committee on the Budget, or their respective designees.
The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Arrington) and the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Boyle) each will control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Arrington).

General Leave

Mr. ARRINGTON. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all
Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Texas?
There was no objection.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Madam Speaker, if Republicans today were not willing to use budget
reconciliation and depart from appropriations in order to pass a
funding bill that would restore funding to ICE and CBP, then what would
happen is my Democrat colleagues would be able to achieve what many of
them have held for a long time as their objective, and have publicly
stated was their objective, and that is to defund immigration
enforcement, border enforcement, and abolish ICE. That is effectively
what would happen if Republicans didn't act using budget reconciliation
to fund ICE and CBP.
That would send us back to the Dark Ages, to the 4 years of open
borders and the unprecedented lawlessness and chaos and crime with
people, crime, gangs, and drugs pouring into our communities, into our
States throughout our entire country, jeopardizing the safety of the
American people.
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone at this point in this country
that that is the stated or unstated goal of some of my colleagues.
Certainly, it is the well-articulated and cited objective of the left.
Quite frankly, a lot of this shutdown and a lot of this obstruction
is really the Democratic Party pandering to the left. But what would
happen is the same thing that happened for 4 years when we had a
Commander in Chief who refused to uphold his sacred oath to enforce the
laws. He refused, with Democrat control of Congress and the White
House, to enforce the laws and secure our southern border. Basically,
he surrendered our sovereignty and safety to the paramilitary terrorist
drug cartels on the other side of the border who were glad to make more
money off of trafficking people than they did drugs. As a result, we
had a complete meltdown in States like Texas who spent billions of
dollars and were completely overwhelmed.
It is almost unfathomable today to think about it, Madam Speaker,
because we have a daily apprehension number at about 196, but the
average illegal crossing or apprehension under the Biden-Harris
administration was over 5,000. I assure you, we would repeat that and
it would be disastrous if we didn't do the right thing, if we didn't
govern our great country, if we didn't open up the people's government
and fund the important offices of ICE and CBP.
For 76 days, our Democrat colleagues held hostage the American
people's safety and security. They held hostage the hardworking people
at the Department of Homeland Security. It wasn't just ICE and CBP. We
were completely dark at Homeland Security. We didn't have the safety
protocols being administered by TSA. We didn't have our Coast Guardsmen
keeping watch to prevent a terrorist attack at our ports. We didn't
have CISA agents preventing an attack on our critical infrastructure,
and, of course, we didn't have ICE and CBP functioning to enforce laws
and to secure our border.

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That is the dysfunction we have been dealing with, and we just said
enough is enough.
We were sent here by the American people who gave President Trump an
overwhelming victory. Every swing State, the popular vote, the
electoral vote, gave us unified Republican leadership in Congress. The
number one reason they did that was to restore the rule of law and to
put the American people's safety and security first. That is exactly
what we are doing today, in spite of the obstruction.
Listen, your granddad and my granddad taught us the same thing: If
somebody tells you what they want to do and who they are, believe them.
For years, we have been hearing this incendiary and dangerous
rhetoric that ICE needed to be defunded. Governor Tim Walz said that
ICE officers are an actual threat. These are the people risking their
lives to defend us and to protect us in our communities. He said that
ICE was a threat to the public. Governor Pritzker said ICE was turning
the country into Nazi, Germany. Chuck Schumer said ICE doesn't belong
in our neighborhoods. Senator John Hickenlooper said that ICE was a
reign of terror.
All this while the risks have increased because of the shutdown. We
have an 8,000-percent increase in threats to the lives of our ICE
agents and Border Patrol agents and a 1,300-percent increase in
assaults. These are the dangerous games that Democrats are playing: to
obstruct the President, so they can go brag as they pander to the left.
Again, the reality is: It is a de facto defunding of law enforcement
and abolishing of ICE.
We will prevent that today, because I am confident that my friends in
the Republican Conference will do the right thing and put the American
people and their safety first.
Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Those are my opening
remarks.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as
I may consume.
Madam Speaker, I will start by reminding the American people that
last year Republicans passed reconciliation 1.0, which President Trump
and my Republican colleagues proudly boasted at the time was the big,
beautiful bill.
Notice, you don't hear much about it anymore. Why? Because the
American people figured out what was in it. The bill became one of the
most unpopular pieces of legislation to pass Congress in decades, with
disapproval more than 2-1 over approval. The reason is simple: because
it hurts America's families.

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The bill cut healthcare for 15 million Americans and raised
healthcare costs for millions more. It made the largest cuts to food
assistance in American history. It added trillions of dollars to the
national debt and all to help pay for the largest tax breaks for
billionaires in our Nation's history.
That is the Republican record. They cut healthcare. They cut food
assistance. They raised costs on working families. They exploded the
debt, and then they handed the biggest benefits to billionaires.
At the same time, this administration has failed miserably on the
economy. We all remember Donald Trump campaigning in my home State, the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and across this country, promising the
American people he would ``lower prices on day one.''
Well, here we are, just past day 500, and costs are higher than ever.
President Trump's reckless tariff taxes have driven up costs for
families and businesses. As if that wasn't bad enough, his choice of
war in Iran has helped send gas prices soaring, a more than 50-percent
increase in just a matter of months. Families are paying more at the
pump, they are paying more at the grocery store, and they are paying
more for healthcare.
With that, you would think that, in reconciliation 2.0, the
Republican majority might actually want to do something to fix that
situation, to fix the mess they created, but no. This bill does not
include one dime to help American families pay for the crushing costs
that they bear.
On top of all of that, we have the President who is continuing to
openly say he wants to give billions of taxpayer money to January 6
insurrectionists. Even though a vast majority of American people oppose
that obnoxious notion, there is nothing in this bill to prevent that
from happening.
Madam Speaker, the American people deserve better than a bill that
does nothing to lower costs, nothing to help families, and nothing to
stop Donald Trump from rewarding violent criminals who attacked our
Capitol. We deserve better.
Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Madam Speaker, I have the greatest respect for my friend from
Pennsylvania, but that is about as good of Washington obfuscation as I
have ever heard.
We are talking about funding ICE and CBP. If we don't do it today,
ICE and CBP doesn't exist, criminals are running around in our streets,
and we don't make good on the promises the American people sent us here
to do.
They want to talk about tax policy. By the way, they are the party
that didn't lift a finger when the tax cuts were going to expire and
cause over a $1,000 tax hike for every family in this country. It would
have been a 22-percent tax hike--this, on the heels of a cost-of-living
crisis that they created by their failed economic policies and their
unbridled spending, the likes of which we haven't seen in one half a
century.
We can go through tax policy and the consequences of the American
people having more money in their pockets because of no tax on tips and
overtime, seniors getting a double deduction who are on a fixed income,
and people who have suffered from Joe Biden's unaffordability crisis. I
am happy to go down the line on that. People have more money in their
pockets. The economy is growing. Inflation is down. Interest rates are
down. The American people were paying $1,000 a month more in their
mortgage as a result of the failed policies of my Democratic
colleagues.
Today, this isn't the debate. The debate is the safety of the
American people and resourcing our brave, hardworking law enforcement
officers who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.
Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr.
Jordan), our Judiciary Committee chairman.
Mr. JORDAN. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
Madam Speaker, we have to use reconciliation because Democrats won't
pay the guys who enforce the law. We should have had this done 110 days
ago when they shut down the Department of Homeland Security. Then they
said: Oh, we will fund that, but we are not going to fund ICE and CBP.
This is all part of their scheme, their systematic, multi-step plan.
First, they let in 10 million migrants under the Biden administration.
Open border--let in 10 million.
Second, they create sanctuary jurisdictions, which makes it difficult
to remove those migrants when they commit another crime.
Third, they say we are not going to pay the guys that do the
removing. We are not going to fund ICE.
That is their plan. They are systematically executing that plan. Let
in 10 million with an open border, create sanctuary jurisdictions--
which, by the way, I always remind folks of this: What is sanctuary
jurisdiction? Politicians telling local law enforcement: Don't work
with law enforcement when it comes to enforcing the law. That is the
dumbest thing I have ever heard, but that is going on in almost a third
of the country: 18 cities, 11 States, and 3 counties in the District of
Columbia.
Third, of course, don't fund ICE. It is not enough to have all the
leftwing crazies out on the street doxing them, tracking them, spitting
on them, yelling at them, swearing at them, and assaulting them. Now
they are saying: We are not going to pay you. That is their plan.
Frankly, you could add a fourth step. We had this hearing in our
committee a couple weeks ago. You can add a fourth step. Some of these
prosecutors in these sanctuary jurisdictions, like right over in
Virginia in Fairfax County--some of these prosecutors actually take
into account the immigration status of someone who has committed a
crime when they decide what they are going to charge them with and what
kind of plea agreement they are going to have.
Mr. Descano's policy is: If an American citizen commits a crime and
an illegal migrant commits the same crime, the illegal migrant gets a
better deal. That is just crazy.
Again, they will go to any length to execute this plan. Let in 10
million. Create sanctuary jurisdictions. Don't pay the guys who do the
removing, and don't prosecute the people who commit crimes.

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They shut down the government 42 days last fall, 70 days of Homeland
Security this spring, and now upwards of 100 days for ICE and CBP.
I thank the great budget chairman for the work his committee has
done. This is the right bill to do. It is unfortunate we have to do it
this way, but this is the only way to pay the guys who actually enforce
the laws that the Congress of the United States passes.
I would urge a ``yes'' vote.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to
the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), the distinguished ranking
member of the Committee on Education and Workforce Committee and also a
member of the Committee on the Budget.
Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, once again, while working
families struggle with high costs caused by this administration,
Republicans' only focus is on spending more money on their lawless
immigration enforcement agenda, even as ICE continues to abuse its
authority and without any assurance that they will begin obeying the
law by obtaining warrants before they go into people's homes, stop
deporting citizens, and stop using excessive force.
While Americans face increased costs, the President seems only
interested in building his ballroom, rewarding violent
insurrectionists, and putting his face on passports and $250 bills.
This reconciliation bill does nothing to block these initiatives. It
also does nothing to reduce gas prices, improve healthcare, preserve
the Department of Education, or create jobs.
Let's not forget, this bill also increases the deficit after the
first bill last year increased the deficit by trillions of dollars.
That is not a surprise because every Democratic administration since
Kennedy has left for the Republicans a better deficit than they
inherited, and every Republican administration since Nixon has left for
the Democrats a worse deficit situation, all without exception.
We need to be focused on a fiscally responsible solution that will
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do something to bring down costs for American families. This bill
doesn't do that.
Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this
legislation.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Again, Madam Speaker, you are going to hear gas prices, tax policy,
healthcare, ballrooms. You are not going to hear anything about what is
happening as a result of my Democrats not supporting us funding ICE and
CBP, because defunding ICE and CBP after the 4 years of chaos and
lawlessness is just completely indefensible.
Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr.
Carter).
Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for
yielding.
Madam Speaker, I rise today infuriated by my Democratic colleagues
who have put the safety and the security of American citizens last.
First, they opened the border to millions of unvetted, illegal
immigrants. Now, they have repeatedly refused to fund Immigration and
Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents, failing
in the number one responsibility of elected officials: keeping our
citizens safe.
The consequences have been devastating for families.
For instance, in my district, Linda Davis, a beloved special
education teacher at Hesse K-8 School in Savannah, was killed by an
illegal immigrant who rammed into her while fleeing law enforcement.
Danny Sharpe, a husband, a father, a son, he was killed by an illegal
immigrant who was driving under the influence and without a license in
Effingham County.
Then, of course, in the State of Georgia, Laken Riley, a bright
nursing student, was murdered while out for what should have been a
pleasant jog in Athens.
Linda Davis, Danny Sharpe, Laken Riley, these are real people, real
people who should be with us today. Their families have experienced
unimaginable pain because of these reckless politics. It is time for
Democrats to do the right thing.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the
gentleman from New York (Mr. Jeffries), the distinguished Democratic
leader of the House.
Mr. JEFFRIES. Madam Speaker, I thank my good friend and colleague
Representative Brendan Boyle from the great Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for yielding and for his leadership.
Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this Republican
scheme to waste $70 billion in taxpayer money to give a blank check to
ICE without any guardrails, any oversight, or any accountability.
Immigration enforcement in this country should be fair, it should be
just, and it should be humane. That is not what is going on right now
as it relates to Donald Trump's violent mass deportation machine.
Donald Trump promised America that he would target violent felons who
are here illegally. Instead, taxpayer dollars are being used by ICE and
his violent mass deportation machine to target and brutalize American
citizens--in some cases, killing them, as was the case in Minneapolis
with Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti--or to violently target law-
abiding immigrant families, children, and in some cases, veterans who
have served this country.
As Democrats, we believe that taxpayer dollars should be used to make
life more affordable for the American people as opposed to what the one
big, ugly bill represented and continues to represent in this Congress.
Republicans are making a decision to rip away healthcare and
nutritional assistance from the American people: the largest cut to
Medicaid in American history, alongside the largest cut to nutritional
assistance in American history. They are literally stealing food from
the mouths of hungry children, veterans, and seniors, in order, through
the one big, ugly bill, to give ICE and Donald Trump's violent mass
deportation machine a $140 billion blank check.
As if that wasn't enough--ripping healthcare and nutritional
assistance away from vulnerable Americans, hardworking Americans,
taxpayers, working-class Americans, middle-class Americans, and those
who aspire to be part of the middle class--as if ripping away
healthcare and nutritional assistance in the one big, ugly bill wasn't
enough, Republicans have now come back for more: to give ICE and Donald
Trump's violent mass deportation machine another $70 billion blank
check with no oversight, no accountability, and no guardrails.

We believe immigration enforcement should be fair, just, and humane.
But ICE needs to be brought under control, and ICE needs to conduct
itself like every other cop, every other police officer, and every
other law enforcement agency in this country.
Instead, Republicans have decided to continue to waste taxpayer
dollars to jam Donald Trump's extreme, rightwing ideology down the
throats of the American people.
As Democrats, we rise in strong opposition to this Republican scheme:
waste of taxpayer dollars.
Donald Trump promised that the cost of living, Madam Speaker, would
go down on day one. Donald Trump promised to lower costs on day one,
but costs in the United States of America haven't gone down. They have
gone up. The cost of living is totally out of control. Why? Because of
Republican policies:
First, the Trump tariffs raised costs on everyday Americans by
thousands of dollars per year.
Second, in the one big, ugly bill, in order to fund the Republican
violent mass deportation machine, they ripped away healthcare and
nutritional assistance from the American people at a time when health
insurance costs are already out of control and grocery prices are
through the roof.
Third, Donald Trump and Republicans have gotten this country into a
reckless and costly war of choice that has skyrocketed gas prices
through the roof, burdening everyday Americans who are already
struggling to survive, who certainly can't thrive, are living paycheck
to paycheck with high rent, high groceries, high gas prices, and high
health insurance costs.

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When I look at the Republican scheme that this budget represents,
there is not a single sentence about making life more affordable for
the American people.
Republicans want to cut healthcare and nutritional assistance, send
us to a reckless and costly war of choice, impose tariffs that are
raising prices on everyday Americans by thousands of dollars per year,
and then use taxpayer dollars to give a $70 billion blank check to ICE
so that the Republican violent, mass-deportation machine can continue
to brutalize or kill American citizens, like Alex Pretti and Renee
Nicole Good, or to violently target law-abiding immigrant families.
Democrats here are not simply a ``no.'' We are a ``hell no'' on this
legislation, and we are going to continue to fight to make life better
for the American people.
We believe that America is far too expensive. We believe that far too
many people are working hard, playing by the rules, can't thrive, and
can barely survive. We believe that in this great country, when you are
doing the right thing, when you are working hard, you should be able to
live an affordable life. That is not happening right now. A comfortable
life is not happening right now for far too many people.
You should be able to live a good life with a good-paying job, good
housing, good healthcare, good education for your children, and a good
retirement, which, by the way, means we will always defend Social
Security and Medicare.
As a warning to the American people, the Speaker of the House
recently said, in part, as a result of what Republicans have done to
skyrocket the debt and the deficit by trillions of dollars in order to
give your MAGA donors massive tax breaks that they don't need and do
not deserve, the Republicans are coming next for the Social Security
and for the Medicare of the American people.
Madam Speaker, the Republican majority has failed. This Congress has
failed. Life hasn't gotten better over the last 18 months. Life has
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policy choices that the Republicans have made to inflict policy
violence and cruelty on the American people.
This toxic piece of legislation is just another example of how
Republicans have failed the American people, so we will be voting
``no'' against this Republican scheme. We will continue to fight to
drive down the high cost of living, fight to lower and fix our broken
healthcare system, fight to get ICE under control, fight to end Donald
Trump's reckless and costly war of choice, and fight for an America
where everyone can afford a high-quality life for themselves and for
their families.
That is not the America that we have right now because of Republican
policy failures and continued schemes like this Republican budget
reconciliation bill to waste another $70 billion on their extreme
immigration policies that have failed America.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), the majority leader of the people's House.
Mr. SCALISE. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman, my colleague and
friend from Texas, for yielding.
Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bill.
Madam Speaker, we should all be here today to express our strong
support for this important piece of legislation to properly and fully
fund the Department of Homeland Security, including, yes, the people
who actually are tasked with carrying out our immigration laws. That is
the job of ICE and CBP. These are the laws that we all pass.
I know our colleagues on the other side of the aisle would love to go
back to open borders, but they are not, fortunately, going to go back
to open borders because we won't let them.
Madam Speaker, we worked with President Trump to secure the border.
In fact, it was the number one issue in the 2024 election. The American
people spoke loud and clear, and, yes, that was on the ballot.
Everybody knew where each side was.
You would think, now that that issue is resolved, that we could be
here in Congress to work together to properly make sure that we fund
the Department of Homeland Security. Sadly, that is not what has
happened.
You have seen the Democrats, time and time again, shut this
Department down, the Department of Homeland Security, formed out of
September 11. You would think some people on the other side of the
aisle are acting like it is still September 10, like we don't have
threats on our homeland.
Yet, we have threats coming from more places than ever because the
other side let millions of people into our country. Millions of people
illegally come into our country, including many violent criminals. They
want you to think, Madam Speaker, that it is just everybody coming in
to seek the American Dream.
We have a legal method for that to happen. Every country does, by the
way. The United States is the most generous nation in the world in
terms of our legal process to come to America--yes, legal. That means
you have to follow the rules to be a part of this great American Dream.
If somebody doesn't want to follow those rules, including the prior
President, then what it does is wreak havoc. What kind of havoc? I know
the other side just likes to attack law enforcement every single day,
the party that tried to defund the police. Yes, they are still at it.
This vote today, make no mistake, if you are voting ``yes,'' you are
not only voting to secure America's border. You are voting to fund law
enforcement. If you vote ``no,'' you are voting to defund the police.
Those are the people, the law enforcement officers, who are risking
their lives to keep our communities safe. I think, Madam Speaker, that
it is important to ask safe from whom? Let's walk a little bit down
memory lane and talk about some of the American citizens who are no
longer with us today because of people who came into this country
illegally because of Joe Biden's open border, because of the policies
that the Democratic Party on the other side, Madam Speaker, wants us to
go back to.

They want open borders. That is why they are voting ``no.'' Make no
mistake about it, this vote is about opening the border again. This
vote is about defunding the police. We cannot let that happen.
Why? Let's remember Laken Riley. Did some on the other side already
forget who Laken Riley is? She was a 22-year-old nursing student who
was killed while jogging near the University of Georgia campus in
February 2024. The man convicted of her murder was, yes, a man from
Venezuela who entered into the United States illegally.
Let's talk about Sheridan Gorman, Madam Speaker. She was an 18-year-
old Loyola University Chicago freshman who was shot and killed in March
2026. The suspect: Jose Medina-Medina, an illegal immigrant from
Venezuela.
Stephanie Minter, a Virginia mother, was fatally stabbed at a Fairfax
County bus stop in February of this year.
Yes, anybody who votes ``no'' is voting against the people who are
stopping criminal illegals who are murdering American citizens still to
this day. Yet, they are going to cast that ``no'' vote, Madam Speaker.
Stephanie Minter, who was murdered, her suspect, Abdul Jalloh, came
here illegally, an immigrant from Sierra Leone with over 30 police
arrests, 30 times arrested, over and over again, until finally he
murdered somebody.
Look at these sanctuary cities. By the way, go look at who is running
these sanctuary cities.
When these Democrats are coming up here, saying that they want to
grab more power, asking you to give them power again, look at what they
do with power. They install sanctuary city policies. They let murderers
get out of prison over and over again until they murder innocent
citizens. You can just go look at the leadership of every Democratic-
run city in America right now. Most of the States have major losses of
population because of their policies.

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Now, where are they going? Mostly to red States, States that are run
by Republicans who want to lower taxes, who want to have commonsense
policy, to get away from the crazy policies that we are seeing over and
over again in these Democrat-run States.
In fact, the policies are so bad that you can look at the city of
Chicago and know you will no longer be able to go to the city of
Chicago to see the Chicago Bears play football. Illinois ran the
Chicago Bears out of the State of Illinois, out of the city of Chicago
over to Indiana because they are so antibusiness. Because they are so
antiworker, and because they won't stand up and protect their own
citizens.
Mr. Speaker, you listen to the people that get up here, day in and
day out, and attack President Trump over and over again. What they
don't tell you is that because President Trump focused on border
security and protecting the American citizens, we now have the lowest
murder rate in the United States in over 100 years because President
Trump cares about people and their communities.
Look at some of these Democrat-run cities where they let illegals out
over and over again. Go back to the suspect who murdered Stephanie
Minter in Virginia. He was in prison and let out over 30 times.
Let's talk about Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old Maryland woman
strangled to death in 2022 by a known MS-13 gang member from El
Salvador.
Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five, was murdered while
exercising on a hiking trail in 2023. Yes, it was someone who came here
illegally, who murdered her, who was finally later convicted of that
crime.
Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old Houston girl, was sexually assaulted
and then murdered in June of 2024, Mr. Speaker. Two Venezuelans who
entered the United States illegally were charged in that case.
Keep in mind, every one of these I am reading, we are about to have a
vote to say: Should we have people working for ICE, working for CBP,
protecting us from these violent criminals, who are coming into our
country illegally to kill our citizens? And you are going to be able to
vote yes or no.
And if you vote no, you are saying you want these people to keep
coming in. Mr. Speaker, you are voting to defund the law enforcement
officers who are going to stop these criminals from coming into our
communities.
It is not like some hypothetical. It has happened over and over and
over again. Sadly, there are more.

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Luis Jocsan Nanez Lopez, a 15-year-old, was shot and killed while
trying to protect his mother from an attempted rape by an illegal in
Kentucky. The killer was a Mexican national.
Hallie Helgeson and Brady Heiling, 18- and 19-year-olds, were killed
in a car crash by a Honduran national who was driving intoxicated in
the wrong direction on a highway. This took place in a sanctuary
jurisdiction in Wisconsin. They act like they are doing you a favor by
looking the other way and not at the laws, except their own citizens
are dying.
Megan Bos was killed by a Mexican in Illinois in 2025. After the
killer's court appearance, a sanctuary city judge freed him onto the
streets of Chicago. There that is again. Fortunately, it was ICE who
rearrested that murderer.
And they want to make ICE out to be the enemy? They are defending the
murderers. Over and over again they want to defund law enforcement, to
stand up for criminals who are wreaking havoc in our communities all
across this country.
Thank God, we have a President in Donald Trump who is willing to
stand up for the American people and protect us, to keep us safe in our
homeland. That is the whole purpose of the Department of Homeland
Security. It is why it needs to be fully funded. We need to pass this
bill. It should have been done months ago. And it should not be
partisan. Everybody should vote for it.
But when that board lights up, you are going to see who is standing
with the American people to keep us safe in our home and who is going
to defend the criminals.
Mr. Speaker, I stand with the American people and say, let's keep our
communities safe. Let's pass this bill. Let's fund this department.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, we heard a lot of words
there. What I didn't hear, though, was even one word, just one, about
what this reconciliation bill would do to lower costs for the American
people. I didn't hear one word for the 15 million Americans about to be
kicked off their healthcare.
I didn't hear one word about those who are paying 50 percent more for
gas than what they were paying just a couple months ago because of this
President's reckless war of choice. There are no words, no plans,
nothing in their bill whatsoever to bring down costs for the American
people.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California
(Mr. Panetta), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.
Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans' reconciliation bill gives
a blank check again to ICE and Border Patrol. Instead of reining in and
reforming these two agencies that brought chaos and controversy to so
many communities across our country, this bill instead provides $70
billion more to ICE and CBP without any guardrails or safeguards for
the American public.
Now, in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, you already injected $140
billion into these two agencies. Money was used to rush agents through
training, push them into the streets, to troll big-box store parking
lots and target immigrants well beyond gang members and felons.
They called themselves law enforcement. What we saw from many agents
is they were acting like a lawless mob with impunity and with a
disregard for our humanity.
Now, I support a secure border. But before I give one more cent to
ICE and Border Patrol, all we are asking for are commonsensical
reforms, such as taking off the masks, turning on the cameras,
identifying themselves, having independent investigations, staying away
from polling places, and obtaining a warrant before going into our
homes.
Instead, your bill ignores bipartisanship reforms, ignores high
prices, ignores the war in Iran, and hands over billions more to ICE
and CBP without any guidance on how to spend it and without any way to
pay for it.

By voting for this reconciliation bill, you are not only giving a
blank check to ICE and CBP. You are giving in to Donald Trump, and you
are giving up on your responsibility to the stability of our economy,
the debt of our country, and the safety of American communities.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Smucker), my friend from the Keystone State and vice
chairman of the Budget Committee.
Mr. SMUCKER. Mr. Speaker, it is like the Democrats have developed
amnesia. They talk about high prices, but inflation went to 9 percent,
triple what it is today, during the Biden years. It averaged more than
double what it is today.
Speaking about working-class Americans, by voting against the One Big
Beautiful Bill Act, they voted for what would have been the largest tax
increase on working families in history, had Republicans not voted to
pass that bill.
The Democrats then held hostage $14 million in wages from working
Americans by shutting down the government, and it cost the American
economy $11 billion. Despite their efforts, though, to undermine the
success of the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, we are still seeing
strong job numbers and a resilient economy as a result of Republican
policies.
But let's talk about the border for just a second. Maybe it is not
amnesia. Maybe they want the thousands of people pouring across the
border.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia). The time of
the gentleman has expired.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Smucker).
Mr. SMUCKER. Maybe they want the thousands of people, the caravans
that came across the border during the Biden years. President Trump was
right. It just takes a President to make that change and to secure the
border.
The American people deserve a secure border. They want a secure
border. They deserve a functioning immigration system, and they deserve
a government that is focused on them, not these partisan games.
Today, by passing this bill, we stand ready to finish the job of
funding border security, restoring immigration enforcement, and putting
the safety and interests of American citizens first.
I urge support for this legislation.

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Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentlewoman from Vermont (Ms. Balint), a distinguished member of the
Budget Committee.
Ms. BALINT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the
Republican reconciliation bill.
While American families struggle to afford housing, healthcare, and
groceries, Republicans are proposing to spend more than $150 billion on
immigration enforcement, roughly $59 billion for detention and
deportation operations.
Working families right now can't afford a doctor's visit, and
Republicans are worried about multiplying our budget for detention
facilities--not lowering healthcare costs, not giving relief to
families who are struggling with obscenely high insurance premiums, but
instead giving even more money to ICE and Border Patrol.
This bill says that while American families pay nearly $27,000 a year
for health insurance costs, Congress should prioritize spending even
more on ICE detention beds. Healthcare costs are rising faster than
wages for many Americans, and this is what we are focused on? It is
incredibly screwed up.
This administration wants you to believe that people who don't look
like you or don't sound like you are the source of your financial
struggles. Trump and his allies do this so you don't see that their
policies benefit billionaires and greedy corporations that have
hollowed out the middle class in this country. Don't believe them, not
for a minute.
We should be lowering healthcare costs. We should be investing in the
working families in our communities across this country.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their
comments to the Chair.
The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 15
seconds to the gentlewoman from Vermont.
Ms. BALINT. Mr. Speaker, we should be lowering costs and investing in
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working families and communities across this country, not weaponizing
our government to go after the most vulnerable.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
California (Mr. McClintock), my friend, who is also a Budget Committee
member.
Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, for 4 years, Democrats actively
encouraged the largest illegal mass migration in history, including the
most vicious criminals in the world. For the last year, these same
Democrats have done everything they can to obstruct, impede, and even
attack Federal officers who are trying to enforce our immigration laws.
Without CBP and ICE enforcing our immigration laws, we have no
borders, which means we have no country. That is the effect, if not the
design, of the Democrats' refusal to fund these agencies.
This bill breaks the Democrats' stranglehold over ICE and CBP
funding. Reconciliation is specifically designed to bring mandatory
spending in line with limits set by the budget resolution. Instead, we
have no choice but to use it to restore the security of our Nation.
We will have one more shot at reconciliation for the coming fiscal
year, and it must be used to fulfill our responsibility to future
generations who are already drowning in our debt.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentlewoman from Washington State (Ms. Jayapal), a distinguished member
of the Budget Committee.
Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Speaker, gas prices have almost doubled since Trump
came in and started his illegal Iran war. Groceries, housing, and
healthcare are all unaffordable.
Republicans would have you believe that there is no money to help
working families. Trump himself said that he does not ``think about
Americans' financial situation,'' and he said that it is ``not
possible'' for the government to fund Medicare, Medicaid, and
childcare.
Just last week, Republicans slashed $141 million for food for
pregnant women and children, but now, magically, Republicans have found
another $70 billion for ICE and CBP, even though those agencies still
have $100 billion left from the $140 billion that Republicans gave them
in the big, bad, betrayal bill.
Meanwhile, Trump's masked ICE agents are killing U.S. citizens in
broad daylight, kidnapping and disappearing parents in front of their
children's schools, and ramming down doors without warrants.
Private, for-profit prison operators are laughing all the way to the
bank as they rake in billions in profits by incarcerating over 60,000
immigrants of all immigration statuses every single night, refusing to
uphold basic standards or give medical care to people in custody.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 15
seconds to the gentlewoman from Washington.
Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Speaker, since Trump came back into office, as
ranking member of the Immigration Subcommittee, I get notified every
time there is a death in detention, and there have been 50
unprecedented deaths in detention since Trump came into office. This
bill has zero guardrails and throws another $70 billion to ICE and CBP.
Vote ``no.'' It is a sham.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Indiana (Mr. Stutzman), my friend and a member of the Budget Committee.
Mr. STUTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Secure
America Act to fund ICE and CBP.
ICE and CBP agents risk their lives daily to keep bad actors out and
protect our Nation's citizens. With the strong leadership of Secretary
Mullin, CBP reached a milestone by seizing more than 100 million lethal
doses of fentanyl along the southwest border since October.
ICE agents also have made progress toward making American cities safe
again, with over 1,400 arrests of known or suspected terrorists.
These Federal agents don't just protect our borders. They defend and
protect American families across the country, especially as the U.S.
hosts the World Cup starting this week.

I stand in strong opposition to the Democrats who wish to put
American lives at risk by refusing to fund these two agencies. Start
supporting the American citizens and not illegals.
I encourage all my colleagues to support the funding for the vital
work of ICE and CBP.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Chu).
Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, once again, Republicans are showing the
American people exactly where their priorities lie. They claim there is
no money for healthcare, no money for affordable housing, no money for
childcare, and no money for gas, which costs an arm and a leg.
Yet, today, Republicans are demanding another $70 billion to
supercharge Trump's mass deportation agenda, plus ICE already got $170
billion from Republicans' big, ugly bill, making them our highest
funded law enforcement agency.
The message couldn't be clearer. There is always money to target
immigrants but never enough for working families?
Let's be clear what Republicans are asking taxpayers for. These
agencies have failed to produce meaningful accountability,
transparency, or reform, even after killing two U.S. citizens.
At the same time, detainees are dying in ICE custody at record rates.
Last week, I visited Adelanto ICE Detention Center in southern
California. I spoke directly with detainees, who described inhumane
conditions like dirty drinking water, inedible food, and nonexistent
medical care. Some have even watched their neighbors die. This is what
this administration wants another $70 billion for.
At a time when Americans are desperate for relief, Republicans are
choosing to invest billions in a system that fails to uphold basic
standards of safety, dignity, and accountability.
I am voting ``no.''
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Texas (Mr. Gill), my friend, who is also a proud member of the Budget
Committee.
Mr. GILL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is no surprise that the party of
defund the police is the party that also votes to defund Border Patrol
for 70 days.
It is no surprise that the party who runs a Senate candidate in Texas
who wants a welcome mat on the southern border is the party that will
vote to defund ICE.
This is the same party that for 4 years intentionally flooded our
country with millions of illegal aliens, and we hear questions like:
How does this make life better for the American people?

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Mr. Speaker, I will tell you that deporting criminals, murderers,
rapists, and thugs out of our country makes our communities safer.
Deporting illegal aliens who are clogging up our schools and our
hospitals, on welfare, and using our social services makes life in
America better for our people.
Mr. Speaker, I would ask: When will our colleagues on the other side
of the aisle finally put the interests of our people, the people we
represent, ahead of the interests of illegal aliens? I am waiting.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bill because it is
a great bill.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentleman from New York (Mr. Tonko), who is a distinguished member of
the Budget Committee.
Mr. TONKO. Mr. Speaker, I have spent my career fighting to improve
mental health care in our schools and communities.
I believe that every single child should grow up in an environment
built around love, learning, and safety, which is why I am so disgusted
by the actions of this administration that are terrorizing an entire
generation of children. These are children who are seeing their friends
and teachers taken by ICE, children who are being held at gunpoint by
masked agents, children who are living in fear that their parents will
be picked up by ICE, children who are being detained for months on end,
and children who are being used as bait so ICE can detain their family
members.

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Those experiences do not fade easily. Our government is inflicting
trauma on our kids. We should all be ashamed of these actions, yet
instead of stopping ICE's reign of terror, Republicans are pushing
legislation that provides this out-of-control agency with tens of
billions more in funding, billions of taxpayer dollars to terrorize our
children and our neighbors instead of supporting our schools, our
hospitals, or our communities.
My choice is clear. I urge my colleagues to join me and reject this
cruel bill. Our children and their families demand it.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, if anybody is living in fear, it is because of the fear-
mongering that we continue to hear from our Democratic colleagues, and
it is no wonder. It starts at the top. The nominee, or the anointed
Presidential nominee of the Democrats in the last Presidential
election, Ms. Kamala Harris, compared ICE to the KKK. We heard
references to the Gestapo, and a reign of terror is what we just heard.
It is no wonder that there are people in the streets obstructing and
putting at risk the lives of our law enforcement officers who are
trying to clean up our neighborhoods from the deluge of gangbangers and
criminals who have flooded cities and towns all across this great
Nation.
It is a travesty to hear such denigrating terms and to see my
colleagues in the United States House Chamber vilifying people who wear
the uniform on behalf of all of us and our families.
As I said, assaults are up by 1,300 percent, death threats by 8,000
percent. It is a wonder more law enforcement officials and ICE agents
haven't been hurt.
Let me tell you, Mr. Speaker, who is going to get hurt: lots of
people across this land if ICE and CBP were defunded on account of not
having willing Republicans to fund them fully, not just for 1 year but
for 3 years, so we never end up here again being held hostage by
shutdowns and defunding of our law enforcement.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from the great State
of Florida (Ms. Lee).
Ms. LEE of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of
the Secure America Act, legislation that will secure our border,
provide critical resources to law enforcement, and make our communities
safer.
I want to highlight a provision of this bill that I have spent years
fighting to advance, along with the Tim Tebow Foundation and the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the bipartisan
Renewed Hope Act.
Today, more than 89,000 children depicted in child sex abuse material
remain unidentified. That means there are 89,000 children who have not
yet been found, not yet rescued, and not yet safe.
The Renewed Hope Act will give Homeland Security Investigations the
analysts, forensic specialists, technology, and training that are
needed to identify those children, rescue them, bring them home, and
bring their predators to justice.
For every child still waiting to be found, this is renewed hope.
Every vote for this bill is a vote to find these children.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats alike,
to do the right thing: Fight for these children and support this
legislation.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), who is a distinguished member of
the Budget Committee.
Mr. DOGGETT. This bill should really be known as the big slush. It is
a slush fund to enrich our corrupt President and a slush fund for ICE
to continue abusing communities across America.
Grocery prices soar and gas prices surge, and to the Trump regime, it
is really just ``peanuts,'' peanuts of the type perhaps that are served
on that luxury jet that Kristi Noem purchased and wasted taxpayer funds
on so she could ride in style to support her ICE agents terrorizing too
many Americans.
After filing a $10 billion bogus lawsuit against his own
administration, Trump incredibly reached a sordid deal with his
personal criminal defense attorney, whom he has appointed Acting
Attorney General, to stop tax evasion audits of Trump, his family, and
all the Trump enterprises, special treatment that has been estimated to
save him over $100 million.
On top of that, he gets to control a taxpayer-funded $1.8 billion
slush fund that can be used to reward the rioters who were here on
January 6, who assaulted police, and other Trump pals and criminals.
Law-abiding neighbors face ICE cruelty while convicted criminals get a
check at our expense.
What we need is a genuine check on the Trump regime, but there is no
rule of law and no checks and balances. Trump knows that a compliant
Republican Congress will let him get away with anything.
This bill doesn't secure America. It secures Trump's stranglehold on
the Republicans.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rulli). Members are reminded to refrain
from engaging in personalities toward the President.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, just to be clear, we are attempting here
in a Republican-only exercise to fund ICE and CBP at last year's
operating budget plus inflation. That is all we are talking about.
Their position is that they want to zero it out. In fact, they
already have. They refuse to fund ICE and CBP. They would effectively
abolish it.
This is not a slush fund unless you are calling what is the normal
and regular operating budget of our immigration enforcement and Border
Patrol officers a slush fund. It is regular, normal funding, and we are
going to do it not for 1 year but for 3 years, so that we don't end up
here again.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from the great State
of Texas (Mr. Gooden), who is a member of the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. GOODEN. Mr. Speaker, what we have heard today from Democrats is
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. They are obsessed. They won't talk
about the bill. They are talking about the President because they are
ashamed, and they know they should be, of their record when they were
in charge.
When President Biden was President, the border was wide open.
Americans were getting killed, and Democrats wouldn't acknowledge it.
That is why we have the majority now. That is why President Trump is in
the White House. It is because he promised to clean it up, and he has.
This bill continues that.
For 76 days, Democrats blocked funding for the entire Department of
Homeland Security, and they are continuing to stand against this today.
They won't actually come out and say what we know they mean, and that
is that they want an open border. Instead, they want to talk about
Trump.
The Secure America Act ensures that that border is never open again.
By fully funding ICE and CBP through President Trump's term, this bill
gives our homeland defenders the resources they need to strengthen
deportation operations, dismantle criminal networks, and stop fentanyl
before it reaches our communities.

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While my colleagues across the aisle continue suffering from Trump
derangement syndrome, I urge passage, and I thank the Republican
majority and President Trump for leading on this.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
Mr. Speaker, it is interesting. I have been participating and
listening to this entire debate. Actually, the President's name that
has come up the most is President Biden. I think they actually miss him
because they would like someone to blame other than the man who is in
the White House right now.
The American people make it clear with some of the worst approval
ratings on the economy in 20-plus years by a 3-1 margin, that they
disapprove of this President's handling of the economy--72 percent
disapprove. Again, these are the worst numbers since the Great
Recession.
They need someone else to blame because they know just how poorly
things are going right now under this President and Republican
leadership.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Kentucky
(Mr. McGarvey), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

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Mr. McGARVEY. Mr. Speaker, we have to stop saying this is about $70
billion for ICE. This is about $240 billion for ICE. Republicans gave
ICE $170 billion last July, and in less than 1 year, they want to give
them $70 billion more.
That is more for ICE this year than Russia is spending on its
military, and they are currently at war. $240 billion for honest to God
storm troopers, masked, armed agents kidnapping people off the street,
murdering U.S. citizens, separating families, and detaining children.
We shouldn't give them another dollar.
We cannot give them another $70 billion, but if you are so willing to
spend it, imagine the good we could do with that kind of money.
We could make people's lives better by giving free school breakfast
and lunch for every kid in America or free childcare for every American
family with a kid under 5. We could bring back the healthcare tax
credits that Republicans killed because they were too expensive for 3
more years, but since feeding kids and fixing healthcare apparently
aren't your thing, maybe we can agree on veterans.
You guys say you care about our veterans, then let's do something
about it. For $70 billion, we could end veteran homelessness forever,
probably seven times over. In fact, I offered an amendment to this bill
that does just that. Actually, with $70 billion, we could end
homelessness in America. That is just one example.
There is so much good we could do with this money and just about
anything would be better than giving it to ICE. Vote ``no.''
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, it has often been said that budgets are statements of
our priorities and our values. Repeatedly, President Biden would
propose cuts to the Department of Homeland Security. The last year he
was in office, in fact, Homeland Security was cut by 3.5 percent.
Remember, this is all while we had record numbers of illegal
immigrants flooding into this country, record numbers of immigrants who
were on the terrorist watch list, record numbers of criminals, record
numbers of drugs killing Americans at record levels, about a plane load
of Americans dying a week.
Meanwhile, my Democrat colleagues found time to give $800 billion in
tax subsidies to green energy corporations. Think about that: Tax cuts
for the rich, rich green energy corporations.
Tens of billions of dollars with a cell phone and a pen by Joe Biden,
those moneys were given to illegal immigrants for healthcare that
hardworking U.S. taxpayers funded.
According to NumbersUSA, we are spending about $9,000 per illegal
immigrant in this country. Mr. Speaker, that is more than we spend on
our most vulnerable U.S. citizens for Medicaid.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from South
Carolina (Mr. Fry), who is also a member of the House Judiciary
Committee.
Mr. FRY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding time.
Mr. Speaker, the Mexican cartels have never had better lobbyists than
the Democrat politicians across the aisle who insisted that nothing was
wrong for years.
As our communities were flooded, Democrats told the American people
not to believe their own eyes, not to see the rising crime and the
melees and the fracturing and the problems in every community across
this country.
When the border was overwhelmed, they said it was secure. In fact,
they told us that we were imagining a border crisis. When communities
demanded action, they offered excuses. When law enforcement came
forward and said we need resources, they were lectured by the ivory
tower that Democrats sit in about compassion.
Their immigration policy boiled down to three simple words: deny,
deflect, and delay. Their strategy was overwhelmingly rejected
thankfully at the ballot box in the last Presidential cycle, but they
refused to accept it. They refused to accept the reality.
The American people are done being put last at the expense of
themselves and put in last place behind illegal immigrants. They are
tired of being treated as if nothing is wrong. Something has been
fundamentally wrong with our border for a long time. When we want to
come and fix it and listen to the people who sent us to Washington to
fix the most fundamental thing about a country, it is borders.
We are told all types of unimaginable things. We are here on
immigration and a border bill, and we are told we are dealing with the
economy on their end.
This is about the border and securing the most fundamentally sacred
thing in our country, which is our border. I think this is basic stuff.
Fund law enforcement and don't defund them. Let them enforce the law
and do their job.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. Omar), a distinguished member of the
Budget Committee.
Ms. OMAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this
reconciliation bill.
Last year, Republicans handed ICE and CBP an $85 billion slush fund.
Today, they want $70 billion more with no reforms and no
accountability for the crimes they have committed. This is at a time
when Americans are barely making ends meet.
Let me tell you what the money could mean for working families. It
could provide free childcare for over 1 million children for 2 years.
We could expand and extend the ACA premium tax credit for at least a
year. We could cancel the Medicare debt of a third of Americans.
Instead, congressional Republicans want to hand more money to the
same rogue agents that have kidnapped and killed Americans across the
country.
We know who is really paying for this. When Federal agents flooded
Minneapolis, our cities suffered $200 million in economic damages, at
least. Workers stayed home. Small businesses shuttered, and tens of
thousands of residents were suddenly thrown into food and housing
insecurity.
This is why I will be introducing a bill to redirect ICE's slush fund
to the very communities that the agencies have terrorized and harmed.
This is who this money should be going to, everyday Americans who are
just trying to survive in Trump's disastrous economy.
Mr. Speaker, I won't support another dollar for ICE, and I urge my
colleagues to vote against this bill.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, it is true. We did put tens of billions of dollars in
the first reconciliation bill because the Democrats' open-border
policies absolutely wreaked havoc on the current system. It overwhelmed
us.
My State spent $14 billion to do the job the Federal Government
wouldn't do. We didn't have the infrastructure. We didn't have the
boots on the ground. We didn't have the judicial process set up to take
on the millions of people, over 10 million people, over 5 million of
them released, not apprehended and held accountable, caught and
released, so the system was overwhelmed.
We needed to infuse some capital to boost the infrastructure so we
could seamlessly work through that. We are talking about regular
operating budgets now and not what we had to put in for the system that
was overwhelmed by the record numbers of illegal immigrants. We are
talking about last year's budget plus inflation.
The bottom line is, my Democrat colleagues stand on the position of
defunding immigration enforcement and effectively abolishing ICE.
I think that is an untenable position in this country. Only a few
radicals hold that position. Most people know what we are up against
and what these hardworking, brave people do for us.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from South Carolina
(Mrs. Biggs), who is on the Homeland Security Committee here in the
House.

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Mrs. BIGGS of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, the Secure America Act
gives Border Patrol and ICE the resources they need to keep doing what
is working.
Southwest border apprehensions are down 94 percent compared to the
Biden administration. For this fiscal year's totals, CBP encounters are
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percent lower than April 2024 alone, and CBP has seized 61 percent more
drugs this fiscal year than during the same period last year. That
means fewer illegal crossings, more fentanyl stops, and stronger
enforcement.
This bill invests in agents, officers, technology, and the tools
needed to dismantle cartels, stop human trafficking, and remove
criminal illegal aliens from our communities.
President Trump has proven that a secure border is possible. Now,
Congress needs to back him up.
South Carolina families deserve safety, sovereignty, and a government
that puts America first.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the Secure America Act.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, may I ask how much time is remaining.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 1\1/4\ minutes
remaining.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Amo), a distinguished member of the
Budget Committee.
Mr. AMO. Mr. Speaker, when I first heard the bill's name, I thought
somebody said: less Secure America Act. After reading it, I realize
that is what it is.
Republicans already handed Trump's immigration machine a massive
windfall in their big, ugly law as they cut your healthcare. Now, they
are back for more. This latest scheme is about pouring $70 billion into
ICE and CBP while leaving untouched Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund for
his political allies and January 6 cop beaters.
It does nothing to lower costs, nothing to stop corruption, and
nothing to help working families. Think about that. If you are worried
about your grocery costs or your utility bills, Republicans have
nothing for you. If you are worried about your healthcare costs,
Republicans have nothing for you. If you are worried about affording
childcare, Republicans have nothing for you. If you are Donald Trump,
looking for billions more to expand ICE and bankroll more abuses of
power, Republicans are happy to write the check with your money.
This bill isn't about security. It is about cruelty, corruption, and
misplaced priorities. You deserve better than this latest, devious
deception. The American people deserve lower costs, safer communities,
and a government that works for them, not another blank check for
Trump's chaos.
Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on Republicans' latest betrayal.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Raskin), the distinguished ranking member
of the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I can understand why our colleagues talking
about deranged Trump syndrome don't want us talking about the actual
President himself. He just said, ``I don't think about Americans'
financial situation,'' and, ``not even a little bit.'' Well, no
kidding. Our let-them-eat-crypto President, who has pocketed a cool $5
billion since he was inaugurated, spends a lot of time thinking about
his own financial security and the bankrolling of his MAGA foot
soldiers, whom he pardoned en masse and released from jail last year.
He wants you to pay for not only a $1 billion golden ballroom because
he bulldozed the White House, but a $1.776 billion political slush
fund, under his exclusive control, to pay out to his favorite convicted
criminals, anti-democracy rioters, and cop-beating insurrectionists, 96
of whom have already committed new crimes since he let them out of
jail, including child sexual assault, domestic violence, home invasion,
and first degree criminal assault. He wants to turn this street-
fighting mob into a permanent private militia of MAGA millionaires.
His Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, cooked up a collusive plan
with the plaintiff President to cancel out all criminal, civil, and tax
liability for himself and the rest of the Trump family and their
businesses for all time--in all caps, they wrote ``forever''--for any
crimes they have committed up until this point. Nothing like this has
ever happened before in American history.
Now, they want to hand DHS another $70 billion after the $170 billion
they got last year--
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 15
seconds to the gentleman from Maryland.
Mr. RASKIN.--despite the fact that DHS still has $100 billion sitting
around unspent, and despite the fact they have done nothing, zero, to
reform the King Kong police practices that left two American citizens,
Renee Good and Alex Pretti, dead, lying in their own blood in the
streets of Minneapolis. Vote ``no.''
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from
engaging in personalities toward the President, and their comments
should be directed to the Chair.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much
time I have remaining.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 7\3/4\
minutes remaining.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
Mr. Speaker, it is notable that not once has any reference been made
by my Democrat colleagues to the victims of crimes perpetrated by
criminal aliens on them and the loss, pain, and suffering of their
families--not one time.

No, not once, have we heard, Mr. Speaker, any reference with respect,
with honor and dignity, to the law enforcement officers who wear the
uniform, who fight the fight to keep us safe, risking their lives to
rid this country of the threats to our neighborhoods and our families--
not one time. We heard reign of terror. We heard gestapo. We hear all
these things. Not one time.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Thompson), the distinguished ranking
member of the Homeland Security Committee.
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I stand with my Democratic
colleagues in strong opposition to this bill.
This bill is yet another attempt by MAGA-controlled Republicans to
give billions of dollars to the violent, lawless, and unconstitutional
Trump administration.
In last year's big, ugly bill, Republicans starved working families
and stripped healthcare from millions of Americans to fund DHS'
immigration crackdown without any guardrails.
DHS used these funds to break into homes without warrants, surveil
and lock up nonviolent protesters, deport sick children with cancer,
and kill two American citizens who were lawfully exercising their First
Amendment and Second Amendment rights.
This bill, just like the last one, does not prohibit any agent from
wearing a mask. It does not require officers to get judicial warrants.
This bill does not prohibit racial profiling or surveilling databases
of unlawful protesters. It does not stop raids at daycares, churches,
or even hospitals.
This bill does not prevent the Justice Department from creating a
slush fund to pay Donald Trump's insurrectionists who assaulted law
enforcement.
Instead, this bill gives the Trump regime a blank check to execute
more out-of-control, unaccountable crackdowns on migrants and the
American citizens supporting them. Americans know the difference.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 15
seconds to the gentleman from Mississippi.
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Americans know the difference between a
government that works for them and one that works only for Donald
Trump. We must oppose this awful bill.

{time} 1630

Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Velazquez), the distinguished ranking
member of the Committee on Small Business.

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Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, almost a year ago, we debated a horrific
piece of Republican legislation that cut more than a trillion dollars
from healthcare and nearly $200 billion in food assistance for hungry
families, all so billionaires could get another tax cut.
That same bill handed over $170 billion to DHS for immigration
enforcement--money used to supercharge ICE and CBP as they terrorized
immigrant communities, trampled the Constitution, brutalized and killed
American citizens in the streets. Since then, life has only gotten more
unaffordable. What is the Republican answer? Their answer is another
$70 billion for immigration enforcement that is already out of control.
It is a slap in the face to every American struggling to get by. It is
a slap in the face to every small business in this country that is
struggling.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Neguse), the assistant Democratic leader.
Mr. NEGUSE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member of the Committee
on the Budget for his leadership.
I don't serve on the Committee on the Budget, but my understanding of
the Committee on the Budget, perhaps a naive understanding, was that
the committee would try to build a responsible budget, to live within
its means.
I must say, with deep regret, Mr. Speaker, I have respect for my
colleague, the chairman of the Committee on the Budget, but every time
he comes to the floor, it ends up costing us all more money. This bill
is going to increase the deficit by $70 billion, $70 billion with a b.
That is how much the Republican Committee on the Budget proposes that
we spend, that we impair our national deficit.
For all of the Freedom Caucus members, for all of the Republicans who
have come to the floor to shed crocodile tears about the fiscal health
of our country, understand that in half an hour, you will be voting in
favor of a bill that increases the deficit by $70 billion. Mr. Speaker,
we ought to reject it.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, we are talking about last year's budget,
plus inflation.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Stanton), member of the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure.
Mr. STANTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this extreme
Republican budget bill, an additional $40 billion to ICE, an agency
that has already received an unprecedented amount of taxpayer funds
with zero reforms, zero accountability, not a single dollar in this
bill to lower the cost of living, nothing for families drowning under
Trump's tariffs, nothing for skyrocketing grocery bills, nothing for
the gas prices that have been driven up by a failing war of choice in
Iran.
This budget shows the American people where the MAGA Republicans'
priorities lie. They will roll over to Trump every single time, while
their own citizens struggle to make ends meet.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I
yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, in closing, I will point out, as I said in the
beginning, that this bill does absolutely nothing to prevent Donald
Trump from handing taxpayer dollars to the violent criminals who
attacked police officers here on January 6.
We know that this is not hypothetical. The President has said
repeatedly that he wants to compensate January 6 rioters.
Just this past weekend, he refused to rule out payments even for
those who assaulted law enforcement officers at the Capitol.
Mr. Speaker, let's remember what these criminals did.
Rioters trapped Officer Daniel Hodges in a doorway and ripped away
his gas mask as he was crushed and assaulted.
Officer Michael Fanone was beaten, tased again and again, dragged
into the crowd, and suffered a heart attack. Other officers were
attacked with flag poles and pepper sprayed.
These rioters were not tourists. They were violent thugs who
attempted to overturn an election by force.
Now, let's not forget, this President has already pardoned them. He
already gave them a free pass. Now he wants to reward them again with
our taxpayer money. What a disgrace.
For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to
commit this bill back to committee.
If the House rules permitted, I would have offered the motion with an
important amendment to this bill.
My amendment would make clear that not one penny of taxpayer money
may be used to create, administer, or pay for any slush fund,
settlement payment, or any other payout to January 6 insurrectionists.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert into the Record the
text of this amendment immediately prior to the motion to commit.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Flood). Is there objection to the
request of the gentleman from Pennsylvania?
There was no objection.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues will
join me in voting for the motion to commit, and I yield back the
balance of my time.
Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, as the good book says: Where your
treasure is, there your heart is also.
Our treasure as Republicans and our hearts, as the American people
have reflected in this last and most historic election, is with the
law-abiding citizens of this great Nation and the brave men and women
who risk their lives to defend it every day.
This is regular budget, normal budgets, and this is the least we can
do to support those folks who stand on that thin line to defend our
sovereign borders and our safety.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my Democrat colleagues do not defund the ICE and
Border Patrol.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
Pursuant to House Resolution 1345, the previous question is ordered
on the bill.
The question is on the third reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be read a third time, and was read the third
time.

Motion to Commit

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to commit at
the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to commit.
The Clerk read as follows:

Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania moves to commit the bill S. 2 to
the Committee on the Budget.

The material previously referred to by Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania is
as follows:

Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania moves to commit the bill S. 2 to
the Committee on the Budget with instructions to report the
same back to the House forthwith with the following
amendment:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FROM USING
TAXPAYER FUNDS FOR SETTLEMENT PAYMENTS TO
INDIVIDUALS CONVICTED OF ASSAULTING LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ON JANUARY 6, 2021.

The Department of Justice may not use taxpayer funds to
make settlement payments to individuals convicted of
assaulting law enforcement officers at or around the United
States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the
previous question is ordered on the motion to commit.
The question is on the motion to commit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and
nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.

Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on the motion to commit will be followed by 5-minute votes
on:
Passage of the bill, if ordered; and
Adoption of House Resolution 1140.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 211,
nays 215, not voting 4, as follows:

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[Roll No. 213]

YEAS--211

Adams
Aguilar
Amo
Ansari
Auchincloss
Balint
Barragan
Beatty
Bell
Bera
Beyer
Bishop
Bonamici
Boyle (PA)
Brown
Brownley
Budzinski
Bynum
Carbajal
Carson
Carter (LA)
Casar
Case
Casten
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conaway
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Craig
Crockett
Crow
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davis (IL)
Davis (NC)
Dean (PA)
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Deluzio
DeSaulnier
Dexter
Dingell
Doggett
Elfreth
Escobar
Espaillat
Evans (PA)
Fields
Figures
Fletcher
Foster
Foushee
Frankel, Lois
Friedman
Frost
Garamendi
Garcia (CA)
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Gillen
Golden (ME)
Goldman (NY)
Gomez
Gonzalez, V.
Goodlander
Gottheimer
Gray
Green, Al (TX)
Grijalva
Harder (CA)
Hayes
Himes
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Hoyle (OR)
Huffman
Ivey
Jackson (IL)
Jacobs
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Kamlager-Dove
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy (NY)
Khanna
Krishnamoorthi
Landsman
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latimer
Lee (NV)
Lee (PA)
Leger Fernandez
Levin
Liccardo
Lieu
Lofgren
Lynch
Magaziner
Mannion
Matsui
McBath
McBride
McClain Delaney
McClellan
McCollum
McGarvey
McGovern
McIver
Meeks
Mejia
Menefee
Menendez
Meng
Mfume
Min
Moore (WI)
Morelle
Morrison
Moskowitz
Moulton
Mrvan
Mullin
Nadler
Neal
Neguse
Norcross
Ocasio-Cortez
Olszewski
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pelosi
Perez
Peters
Pettersen
Pingree
Pocan
Pou
Pressley
Quigley
Ramirez
Randall
Raskin
Riley (NY)
Rivas
Ross
Ruiz
Ryan
Salinas
Sanchez
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schneider
Scholten
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Sewell
Sherman
Simon
Smith (WA)
Sorensen
Soto
Stansbury
Stanton
Stevens
Strickland
Subramanyam
Suozzi
Sykes
Takano
Thanedar
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tokuda
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Tran
Underwood
Vargas
Vasquez
Veasey
Velazquez
Vindman
Walkinshaw
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Whitesides
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)

NAYS--215

Aderholt
Alford
Allen
Amodei (NV)
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barr
Barrett
Baumgartner
Bean (FL)
Begich
Bentz
Bergman
Bice
Biggs (AZ)
Biggs (SC)
Bilirakis
Boebert
Bost
Brecheen
Bresnahan
Buchanan
Burchett
Burlison
Calvert
Cammack
Carey
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Ciscomani
Cline
Cloud
Clyde
Cole
Collins
Comer
Crane
Crank
Crawford
Crenshaw
Davidson
De La Cruz
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donalds
Downing
Dunn (FL)
Edwards
Ellzey
Emmer
Estes
Evans (CO)
Ezell
Fallon
Fedorchak
Feenstra
Fine
Finstad
Fischbach
Fitzgerald
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flood
Fong
Foxx
Franklin, Scott
Fry
Fulcher
Fuller
Garbarino
Gill (TX)
Gimenez
Goldman (TX)
Gooden
Gosar
Graves
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hageman
Hamadeh (AZ)
Haridopolos
Harrigan
Harris (MD)
Harris (NC)
Harshbarger
Hern (OK)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Hinson
Houchin
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunt
Hurd (CO)
Issa
Jack
Jackson (TX)
James
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy (UT)
Kiggans (VA)
Kiley (CA)
Kim
Knott
Kustoff
LaHood
LaLota
Langworthy
Latta
Lawler
Lee (FL)
Letlow
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luna
Luttrell
Mackenzie
Malliotakis
Maloy
Mann
Massie
Mast
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McCormick
McDowell
McGuire
Messmer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (OH)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Mills
Moolenaar
Moore (AL)
Moore (NC)
Moore (UT)
Moore (WV)
Moran
Murphy
Nehls
Newhouse
Nunn (IA)
Obernolte
Ogles
Onder
Owens
Palmer
Patronis
Perry
Pfluger
Reschenthaler
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rouzer
Roy
Rulli
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schmidt
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Self
Sessions
Shreve
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spartz
Stauber
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Strong
Stutzman
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Tiffany
Timmons
Turner (OH)
Valadao
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Van Epps
Van Orden
Wagner
Walberg
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Wied
Williams (TX)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yakym
Zinke

NOT VOTING--4

Kean
Mace
McDonald Rivet

Norman

{time} 1710

Messrs. MURPHY and McDOWELL changed their vote from ``yea'' to
``nay.''
Messrs. SCHNEIDER, OLSZEWSKI, and BEYER changed their vote from
``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the motion to commit was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.

Recorded Vote

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 214,
noes 212, not voting 4, as follows:

[Roll No. 214]

AYES--214

Aderholt
Alford
Allen
Amodei (NV)
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barr
Barrett
Baumgartner
Bean (FL)
Begich
Bentz
Bergman
Bice
Biggs (AZ)
Biggs (SC)
Bilirakis
Boebert
Bost
Brecheen
Bresnahan
Buchanan
Burchett
Burlison
Calvert
Cammack
Carey
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Ciscomani
Cline
Cloud
Clyde
Cole
Collins
Comer
Crane
Crank
Crawford
Crenshaw
Davidson
De La Cruz
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donalds
Downing
Dunn (FL)
Edwards
Ellzey
Emmer
Estes
Evans (CO)
Ezell
Fallon
Fedorchak
Feenstra
Fine
Finstad
Fischbach
Fitzgerald
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flood
Fong
Foxx
Franklin, Scott
Fry
Fulcher
Fuller
Garbarino
Gill (TX)
Gimenez
Goldman (TX)
Gooden
Gosar
Graves
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hageman
Hamadeh (AZ)
Haridopolos
Harrigan
Harris (MD)
Harris (NC)
Harshbarger
Hern (OK)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Hinson
Houchin
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunt
Hurd (CO)
Issa
Jack
Jackson (TX)
James
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy (UT)
Kiggans (VA)
Kim
Knott
Kustoff
LaHood
LaLota
Langworthy
Latta
Lawler
Lee (FL)
Letlow
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luna
Luttrell
Mackenzie
Malliotakis
Maloy
Mann
Massie
Mast
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McCormick
McDowell
McGuire
Messmer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (OH)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Mills
Moolenaar
Moore (AL)
Moore (NC)
Moore (UT)
Moore (WV)
Moran
Murphy
Nehls
Newhouse
Nunn (IA)
Obernolte
Ogles
Onder
Owens
Palmer
Patronis
Perry
Pfluger
Reschenthaler
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rouzer
Roy
Rulli
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schmidt
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Self
Sessions
Shreve
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spartz
Stauber
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Strong
Stutzman
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Tiffany
Timmons
Turner (OH)
Valadao
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Van Epps
Van Orden
Wagner
Walberg
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Wied
Williams (TX)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yakym
Zinke

NOES--212

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Landsman
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latimer
Lee (NV)
Lee (PA)
Leger Fernandez
Levin
Liccardo
Lieu
Lofgren
Lynch
Magaziner
Mannion
Matsui
McBath
McBride
McClain Delaney
McClellan
McCollum
McGarvey
McGovern
McIver
Meeks
Mejia
Menefee
Menendez
Meng
Mfume
Min
Moore (WI)
Morelle
Morrison
Moskowitz
Moulton
Mrvan
Mullin
Nadler
Neal
Neguse
Norcross
Ocasio-Cortez
Olszewski
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pelosi
Perez
Peters
Pettersen
Pingree
Pocan
Pou
Pressley
Quigley
Ramirez
Randall
Raskin
Riley (NY)
Rivas
Ross
Ruiz
Ryan
Salinas
Sanchez
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schneider
Scholten
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Sewell
Sherman
Simon
Smith (WA)
Sorensen
Soto
Stansbury
Stanton
Stevens
Strickland
Subramanyam
Suozzi
Sykes
Takano
Thanedar
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tokuda
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Tran
Underwood
Vargas
Vasquez
Veasey
Velazquez
Vindman
Walkinshaw
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Whitesides
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)

NOT VOTING--4

Kean
Mace
McDonald Rivet

Norman

Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes
remaining.

{time} 1723

So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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