YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyWorkers & JobsCivil LibertiesCriminal Justice & Due ProcessCorporate BenefitsEnvironmentTransparency & AccountabilityTargeted & Unrelated ProvisionsGun LawsEnds the pay lapse with back pay and funds Homeland Security for the year — about $95 billion.
Your Money
The Disaster Relief Fund pays for help after a major disaster is declared. It covers debris cleanup, repairs, and direct aid to families.
Customs officers could not use this money to stop someone bringing medicine home from Canada. The drug cannot be a controlled substance or a biologic.
Flood money helps owners raise, seal, or move homes that keep flooding. It comes out of flood insurance fees and stays available until spent.
Homeland Security could not charge a fee to walk or drive across the Canadian or Mexican border. It could not even study one this year.
Workers & Jobs
Funding ran out on or about February 13, 2026, and staff went unpaid. The bill says pay, allowances, and benefits shall be issued for that stretch.
The raise would reach controllers and the bosses who manage air traffic. It happens only if the head of the FAA decides staffing and scheduling improved.
Agents on protective duty often pass the yearly ceiling on extra pay. The bill lifts the money set aside for that overtime from $24 million to $40 million.
Half pays for firefighter jobs through SAFER grants. The other half buys gear and training through Assistance to Firefighters Grants.
A cap on overtime pay first set for 2018 would apply again to this year's money. It limits what some officers can earn for extra hours.
Civil Liberties
Cuffs and shackles could not be used on pregnant women held by the department. Narrow exceptions need a safety or flight-risk finding, and never during labor.
No money could go toward planning, testing, or building a national ID card. The ban lasts through this budget year.
No department money could buy long-range drones that carry weapons, or add weapons to them. Unarmed MQ-9 aircraft could still be bought.
Border security money could not buy or set up a watch system unless it runs on its own. A 2025 law sets what counts as autonomous.
Criminal Justice & Due Process
The Secretary could move money into ICE without the usual timing and notice limits. The stated purpose is to detain people set for removal.
If a detention site scores below adequate on its last two reviews, ICE could not keep paying it. ICE's own conduct office runs the reviews.
Some local police sign deals to help enforce immigration law. Funding stops for a deal the inspector general finds seriously broken.
Corporate Benefits
Bonus and award fees could not be paid when a contractor's work is judged below par. It applies to every dollar in this bill.
A defense list names Chinese military firms. Those firms, and any they own, could not get money or contracts from the department.
Environment
A rule from the 2021 funding law would carry over to this money. It blocks fencing at sites such as the Santa Ana refuge and the National Butterfly Center.
Transparency & Accountability
FEMA would have to post disaster payment requests on its website, broken out by state. Items under final review must show up within 60 days.
The department could not block a member of Congress from checking a site that holds immigrants. It also could not spruce the place up first.
Records of deaths, possible sexual assault, and abuse claims in custody must be kept. A person punished over a claim could ask to see them.
The money buys, sets up, and runs body cameras for agents doing immigration work. A spending plan is due to Congress within 30 days.
Members of Congress, agency heads, and top White House staff would face the same screening as everyone else. No money could carry out a law changing that.
Amounts for secret programs follow a classified paper sent with the bill. Those figures do not show up in the text the public can read.
Targeted & Unrelated Provisions
Two lines have nothing to do with Homeland Security. The Supreme Court gets $30 million, and the FAA gets $140 million for a controller pay raise.
Congress named the exact projects and sums in a paper filed with the bill. The money is split between local emergency centers and grants to cut storm damage.
Gun Laws
No money could help hand a working gun to someone an officer knows or thinks works for a drug cartel. It is allowed only under constant watch.
Funds could not be spent on the Arms Trade Treaty unless the Senate approves it. The treaty covers arms sales between countries.
More about this bill
Homeland Security workers who have gone unpaid since mid-February would be paid what they are owed. The weeks of the lapse would count as covered by the stopgap already in law. Pay, allowances, and benefits would then have to be issued. Work done during the lapse would also be approved after the fact. Funding for the department would run through September 30, 2026. The spending lines add up to about $95 billion. Border and customs work would get $17.7 billion. Immigration enforcement would get $10 billion. The Coast Guard would get $11.3 billion and airport screening $10.6 billion. The disaster relief fund would get $26.4 billion. Some strings attached to the money would reach you directly. Customs officers could not stop you from carrying a 90-day supply of medicine home from Canada. No new fee could be charged to cross the border by land. Fire departments would share $684 million for hiring and gear. Homeowners could seek part of $175 million in grants to flood-proof their houses. Detention rules would tighten. Contracts would end at sites that score below adequate twice in a row. Members of Congress could enter detention sites without warning. Records of deaths and abuse claims in custody could not be destroyed. Two items sit outside Homeland Security. The Supreme Court would get $30 million. Air traffic controllers would get $140 million for a 3.8 percent raise.
Congressional Summary
This bill provides appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the remainder of FY2026. It also ends the partial DHS shutdown that began on February 14, 2026, because the continuing resolution (CR) that was funding DHS expired and a regular FY2026 DHS appropriations bill had not been enacted. Specifically, the bill provides appropriations to DHS for Departmental Management, Intelligence, Situational Awareness, and Oversight, includingthe Office of the Secretary and Executive Management;the Management Directorate;Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Awareness; andthe Office of Inspector General.In addition, the bill provides appropriations for Security, Enforcement, and Investigations, includingU.S. Customs and Border Protection,U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,the Transportation Security Administration,the U.S. Coast Guard, andthe U.S. Secret Service.The bill provides appropriations for Protection, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery, includingthe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, andthe Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).The bill provides appropriations for Research, Development, Training, and Services, includingU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, andthe Science and Technology Directorate.The bill also authorizes back pay, in accordance with current law, for federal employees who were affected by the partial DHS shutdown.Finally, the bill ratifies and approves certain obligations that were incurred during the partial DHS shutdown, including obligations incurred to maintain the essential level of activity to protect life and property and bring about an orderly termination of government functions.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Received in the Senate.
- Action Date
- 2026-04-02
- Date Added
- 2026-03-30
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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