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The bill increases congressional oversight, transparency, and targeted support for homeland-security and grant programs—improving accountability and local cyber/disaster capabilities—but does so by imposing new reporting, caps, and restrictions that may slow response flexibility, add administrative cost, raise privacy risks, and shift or reduce operating funds.
Taxpayers and Congress gain much stronger oversight and transparency over DHS spending, acquisitions, and noncompetitive awards through regular reporting, IG reviews, acquisition briefings, and advance notifications.
State, local, tribal, territorial agencies and fusion centers get improved cybersecurity threat feeds, helping them detect and respond to incidents faster.
FEMA grant processes are made more transparent and focused on frontline response by capping administrative set‑asides, publishing reimbursement dashboards, imposing deadlines/penalties to speed awards, and allowing waiver flexibility for certain grant programs.
Stricter limits on reprogramming and prohibitions on transfers (including into CBP/ICE accounts) reduce DHS’s ability to shift funds quickly, risking slower responses to emergent threats or changing operational needs.
Extensive new reporting, monthly briefings, and advance-notification requirements will increase administrative burden and staff time across DHS and grant programs, potentially diverting resources from operations.
Caps on FEMA administrative costs, daily penalties, and automatic rescissions may hamper effective grant management, disproportionately strain smaller jurisdictions, and reduce funds available for other mission support.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Tightens DHS oversight and limits on fund reprogramming, changes FEMA grant rules/timelines and admin caps, restricts screening exemptions, and adds TSA, USCIS, and FLETC authorities.
Introduced February 11, 2026 by Rosa L. Delauro · Last progress February 11, 2026
Requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and related agencies to provide detailed, regular financial, staffing, acquisition, and grant briefings and reports to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees; directs Inspector General review of noncompetitive awards and sets specific deadlines for those reports. It also tightens rules on reprogramming and transfers of DHS funds, limits carryover of appropriations, and imposes penalties for missed grant-application deadlines. Makes program-level changes across homeland security programs: restricts exemptions from passenger/baggage screening for senior officials, authorizes limited uses of certain TSA capital funds for explosives detection in FY2026, caps administrative use of some FEMA grants at 5%, speeds FEMA grant timelines with daily penalties for missing application windows, allows specific USCIS and FLETC authorities, and rescinds or reassigns select FEMA/DHS amounts for FY2026 operations.