Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
To require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to link together applications of family members throughout the NEXUS application process, and for other purposes.
The bill makes it easier and faster for families to apply for and be processed together for NEXUS, trading off implementation costs, potential delays when one member is ineligible, and modest reductions in individualized vetting for young children.
PEARL Act
The bill pilots placing trained support dogs with CBP to boost officer wellbeing and help shelters, but it requires upfront public spending, imposes a tight implementation timeline, and risks disrupting continuity if the short pilot is not transitioned or extended.
Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act
The bill strengthens congressional oversight and accountability for northern border security through regular threat analyses, briefings, strategy updates, and performance metrics, but it increases DHS administrative burden and costs and reduces public transparency by relying on classified briefings.
Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act
The bill increases federal situational awareness and accountability for Northern Border security through recurring analyses, strategy updates, and performance measures while avoiding a direct new appropriation — but it raises civil‑liberties and transparency concerns and may struggle to be implemented effectively because it provides no new funding, shifting costs or causing delays.
One-Stop Pilot Program Extension Act
The bill streamlines international checked-bag transfers and lowers duplicative screening burdens by allowing trusted foreign screening and image-sharing, improving travel efficiency and some security targeting, but it raises safety, privacy, passenger-access, and implementation-cost risks that shift operational burdens onto carriers and foreign airports.
Measuring Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking Act
The bill strengthens DHS coordination and accountability to interdict illicit fentanyl more effectively, but it raises privacy risks and administrative burdens and could incentivize short‑term performance over longer‑term investigative strategies.
Major Non-NATO Ally Terror Threat Assessment Act
The bill improves classified, country-specific threat intelligence and forces DHS to identify capability gaps—strengthening congressional oversight and counterterrorism focus—but does so at the cost of increased surveillance/privacy concerns, added government expense, and potential diplomatic and information-security risks.
Secure America Act
The bill significantly increases multi‑year funding and operational capacity for federal border and immigration enforcement—improving staffing, investigations, and detection—while concentrating enforcement power and surveillance that raises costs, privacy concerns, and heightened risks of arrest and strained local–community relations for immigrants.
Transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain parcels of Federal land in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and for other purposes.
The bill adds acreage to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park while reserving about 25 acres for CBP training—boosting conservation and federal training capacity but reducing some public park access and shifting costs to the federal agency/taxpayers.
Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035.
The resolution increases multi-year budget predictability and speeds some budget processes (helping defense, certain agencies, and reconciliation-driven priorities) but does so by locking in ceilings and concentrating procedural power in ways that reduce flexibility, oversight, and could constrain investments or rights protections.
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
The bill increases oversight, transparency, and targeted funding for DHS operations and state/local grants—improving accountability and some operational support—while imposing substantial new reporting requirements, funding/ procurement limits, and financial penalties that raise costs, reduce flexibility, and could delay urgent responses.
Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. detection, enforcement, and international cooperation to curb IUU fishing and forced labor—benefiting fish stocks, lawful fishers, and consumers—but does so with new spending, compliance costs, privacy and due‑process risks, and potential diplomatic and operational tradeoffs.
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases transparency, oversight, and predictable funding timelines for grants and some programs—potentially protecting taxpayer dollars and speeding certain starts—but does so by adding reporting requirements, legal ambiguities, and prescriptive limits that could slow urgent responses, strain grantees and agency staff, and raise costs for taxpayers.
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025
Combatting International Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling Partnership Act of 2025
The bill strengthens CBP cooperation with foreign partners to improve rescue and cross-border law enforcement and offers a temporary compensation mechanism for foreign victims, but it expands CBP's overseas authority and funding flexibility in ways that could strain diplomacy, civil liberties, and domestic DHS resources.
Tren de Aragua Border Security Threat Assessment Act
The bill improves coordination, transparency, and situational awareness about Tren de Aragua for governments, communities, and Congress, but does so at the risk of diverting DHS resources, exposing operational details if not carefully redacted, and pulling focus away from other border threats.
Syria Terrorism Threat Assessment Act
The bill forces DHS to produce a rapid, consolidated Syria-related terrorism threat assessment to boost security situational awareness and accountability, but it risks straining agency resources and raising privacy and scrutiny concerns for immigrants and travelers.
Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025
The bill increases penalties and centralizes immigration enforcement to deter and more severely punish repeat unlawful reentry and certain criminal conduct, at the cost of higher incarceration expenses, reduced judicial discretion, broader criminal exposure for immigrants, and greater strain and politicization of enforcement and detention systems.
Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025
The bill increases U.S. ability to identify and sanction actors linked to Haitian trafficking and preserves humanitarian channels, but it also creates significant travel and legal risks for individuals and businesses, diplomatic and operational exposure from public disclosures, and program instability due to a five-year sunset that could disrupt services.
Recognizing the importance of trademarks in the economy and the role of trademarks in protecting consumer safety, by designating the month of July as "National Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Education and Awareness Month".
The resolution raises public awareness and encourages coordination to combat counterfeiting—helpful for consumer safety and brand protection—but is non‑binding, may shift costs onto businesses or taxpayers, and could risk diplomatic friction without providing enforcement authority or funding.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
This package delivers sizable tax relief, defense/industrial and targeted domestic investments while tightening immigration and benefit rules and expanding fossil fuel development — producing near‑term financial and program gains for many Americans at the cost of higher federal spending, greater compliance burdens, and increased risks to climate, coverage, and immigrant access.
Special Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2025
The bill improves transparency and gives authorities timely encounter data to target resources, but it raises privacy and stigmatization risks for migrants and certain communities and imposes additional administrative costs on DHS.
Sanction Sea Pirates Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. tools to deter piracy and protect shipping and humanitarian flows, but it raises costs for taxpayers and shippers, risks diplomatic friction, and could harm innocents or limit transparency through broad sanctions and visa penalties.
Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act
The bill seeks to modernize border security by piloting advanced technologies and improving oversight and industry coordination, trading stronger detection and commercial opportunities against increased surveillance, higher taxpayer costs, and potential operational and procurement risks.
SHIELD Against CCP Act
The bill improves DHS coordination, threat assessments, and privacy safeguards to strengthen border and supply-chain security, but it increases federal costs and raises risks of greater scrutiny, information-sharing, and potential trade enforcement actions while being limited by a seven-year sunset.
Subterranean Border Defense Act
The bill aims to strengthen DoD/DHS program authority and delivery, trading off greater administrative requirements for federal agencies and a risk of higher costs borne by taxpayers.
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
The bill boosts Coast Guard capacity, personnel supports, victim protections, and maritime/infrastructure modernization—but does so at the cost of substantial new spending, added administrative burdens, and some tradeoffs in privacy, oversight, and regulatory flexibility.
Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act
The bill strengthens federal tools to deter and punish vehicle evasion near the border and increases immigration consequences, at the cost of expanding federal criminal reach (especially within 100 miles of the border), raising taxpayer and administrative costs, and reducing protections for some immigrants.
An original resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States possesses legal authority under existing law to take immediate and necessary action to secure the southwest border of the United States.
The bill gives DHS and the President clearer authority to return certain asylum applicants and to use entry-suspension powers to reduce irregular migration and speed processing, but it risks denying protection to vulnerable asylum seekers, creating humanitarian harms for people left in contiguous countries, and enabling broad entry restrictions with legal and diplomatic consequences.
