Sponsor
Mark E. Amodei
Representative · R-NV
Representative · R-NV
Official title: Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 12, 2026 by Mark E. Amodei
The bill increases transparency, accountability, and targeted investments in border operations, cybersecurity, and disaster programs while imposing tighter immigration controls and extensive reporting/reprogramming limits that reduce DHS flexibility, raise administrative costs, and may shift expenses onto users and grantees.
Taxpayers and Congress gain much stronger, faster visibility into DHS spending and contracts because agencies must provide timely budget/contract data, notify Appropriations Committees before major reprogrammings/transfers, and publish obligation and fee estimates.
Members of the public and oversight bodies will see improved DHS law‑enforcement accountability through funded body‑worn cameras, required agency and numeric identifiers on officers, use‑of‑force/de‑escalation training, and prohibitions on destroying custody records.
State, local, tribal, and federal partners get strengthened cybersecurity and disaster-response capacity via access to threat feeds, a $99.75M boost to CISA operations, caps directing more FEMA grant dollars to projects, and faster FEMA application/decision timelines plus minimum predisaster mitigation allocations.
Migrants, asylum seekers, and communities that host them face reduced access to asylum and legal work because the bill tightens credible‑fear/asylum standards, bars asylum for many who transited other countries, and denies employment authorization for certain applicants or those convicted while pending.
DHS components, CBP, FEMA, and grantees will face substantial new administrative and reporting burdens—frequent briefings, validated monthly estimates, multiple notice timelines, dashboards, and fee accounting—that will divert staff time and may slow operations and program delivery.
Limits, caps, and advance‑notice requirements on reprogramming and certain transfers reduce DHS's ability to quickly shift funds in response to emergencies or emerging threats, risking slower operational responses and less nimble resource use.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Tightens DHS budget and acquisition transparency, limits reprogramming, directs CBP appropriations, speeds and caps FEMA grant processes, and restricts certain USCIS immigration actions.
Requires new reporting, transparency, and notification rules across the Department of Homeland Security and conditions how DHS components may reprogram, transfer, and spend FY2027 funds. It also provides line-item appropriations and limitations for Customs and Border Protection, imposes restrictions and new procedures for FEMA grant administration and timing, and adds operational and limits provisions for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Sets quarterly and monthly reporting deadlines to Appropriations Committees and the DHS Inspector General, bars or constrains many intra-DHS reprogrammings without advance notice, authorizes targeted additional CBP funding, limits certain asylum and employment-authorization actions, and allows limited intelligence-to-DHS transfers under oversight rules. It also establishes visitor and oversight access protections for Members of Congress to DHS facilities and penalties for noncompliance by DHS offices or the Inspector General reporting requirements.