Sponsors
Introduced June 26, 2025 by Mark E. Amodei
The bill increases congressional control, fiscal discipline, and support for border operations and disaster preparedness while imposing significant new reporting controls and policy restrictions that may slow DHS responsiveness, complicate operations, and reduce protections for some immigrants.
Taxpayers and Congress: The bill increases DHS spending transparency and congressional oversight by requiring regular budget/staffing reports, acquisition disclosures, IG access, and pre-award briefings.
Border communities, DHS, and border-management agencies: Provides new and sustained funding and validated monthly border arrival estimates to support CBP staffing, inspections, technology procurement, and planning.
State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments and first responders: Speeds disaster and preparedness funding through shorter application/decision timelines, caps administrative fees to preserve frontline funds, and permits transfers to mitigation and flood-mapping accounts.
DHS finance, acquisition, and program staff: New monthly reporting, pre‑approval requirements, advance posting/notice rules, and briefings add significant administrative burden and may divert staff time from operations.
Department of Homeland Security and the public: Tighter reprogramming limits, notification periods, and requirements before use of forfeiture funds could constrain DHS's ability to reallocate funds quickly in urgent security or operational situations.
Immigrants and asylum seekers: Multiple provisions restrict asylum and credible-fear processing, bar some employment authorization, impose evidentiary limits tied to transit countries, and expand detention/monitoring priorities, likely increasing expedited removals and reducing protections.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Sets FY2026 DHS appropriations with stronger oversight, acquisition controls, CBP and FEMA policy changes, and new USCIS/immigration restrictions.
Requires new, tighter oversight and reporting across the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and funds DHS and related agencies for fiscal year 2026. It forces monthly and quarterly budget and acquisition disclosures, limits certain obligations until Congress is notified, and imposes detailed rules for DHS acquisition programs and pilot projects. Also provides targeted funding and policy changes for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), FEMA disaster and preparedness grants, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) operations; sets limits on certain immigration-related benefits and contractor competitions; and establishes standard appropriations controls on transfers and reprogrammings within DHS.