Sponsors (5)
The bill reduces federal spending and keeps FEMA funds focused on traditional disasters by limiting FEMA support for immigration-related sheltering, but does so by cutting aid to undocumented people and shifting costs and health/safety risks onto local governments, nonprofits, and vulnerable individuals while narrowing FEMA's flexible response capacity.
Taxpayers and disaster-response operations: FEMA will be less likely to fund off‑site shelter capacity for CBP short‑term holding facilities, preserving FEMA resources for traditional disaster relief and response.
Taxpayers: rescinding unobligated FEMA balances reduces near-term federal spending commitments and lowers immediate budget outlays.
Undocumented immigrants and mixed‑status households: excluded from FEMA disaster benefits and emergency assistance, increasing financial hardship and reducing access to post-disaster aid for vulnerable families.
Local governments and nonprofit relief organizations: lose federal funding options and may have to absorb increased disaster- and shelter-related costs, straining local budgets and community services.
Taxpayers and public budgets: may face higher downstream costs (e.g., longer detentions, legal costs, emergency medical care, public health responses) if reduced federal sheltering and assistance worsen unmet needs.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars FEMA from funding or supporting non‑Federal sheltering or facility work to relieve CBP short‑term holding facility overcrowding and rescinds certain unobligated transferred funds.
Prohibits FEMA from using funds or running programs that support sheltering, facility improvements, construction, or related activities carried out by non‑Federal entities to relieve overcrowding in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) short‑term holding facilities. It also rescinds the unobligated balances of amounts previously transferred to FEMA from specific 2023 and 2024 appropriations for that purpose, reducing available FEMA funding tied to those transfers.
Introduced February 27, 2025 by James Risch · Last progress February 27, 2025