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The bill preserves federal discretion and shields state and local governments from new obligations tied to the HUD–DHS MOU, but that protection risks disrupting coordination, funding, and services that benefit renters, low-income, and unhoused people and creates planning uncertainty for federal staff and contractors.
State and local governments are protected from being forced to accept new obligations or resource commitments tied to the HUD–DHS memorandum of understanding until Congress or law requires them.
HUD and DHS officials retain discretion and cannot be compelled to implement the interagency agreement, preserving executive-agency control over whether and how the MOU is carried out.
Renters, low-income people, and people experiencing homelessness may lose coordinated services, funding, or timely access to shelter and housing-placement initiatives if the MOU is suspended or delayed.
HUD and DHS employees and contractors face administrative uncertainty and potential wasted planning resources because implementation of the MOU could be halted or changed.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars HUD and DHS from implementing or carrying out the memorandum of understanding they signed on March 24, 2025.
Introduced February 4, 2026 by Luz M. Rivas · Last progress February 4, 2026
Blocks the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Homeland Security from carrying out a specific memorandum of understanding those agencies signed on March 24, 2025. It also establishes a short title for the Act. If enacted, the bill would prevent HUD and DHS from implementing, executing, or otherwise carrying out the actions contemplated by that MOU; it does not create new programs or provide funding.