Three highlights in latest DHS spending bill

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Publish Date: 2026-06-05 20:29:00

The House Appropriations homeland security subcommittee advanced the 2027 spending bill on Friday, as reconciliation funding for ICE and CBP also moves forward.

Justin Doubleday@jdoubledayWFED

June 5, 2026 2:44 pm

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Congress just passed fiscal 2026 appropriations for most of the Department of Homeland Security in May, but lawmakers are already moving forward with crafting a 2027 budget for DHS.

The House Appropriations Committee’s homeland security subcommittee passed its version of the 2027 DHS spending bill on Thursday. The Republican-led committee passed the bill along party lines.

The DHS spending bill’s specifics, particularly around border security and immigration enforcement agencies, could change as Republican leaders move forward with a new reconciliation bill.

Early Friday morning, the Senate passed the $70 billion reconciliation measure. It would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol for the next three years, through the end of President Donald Trump’s term.

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“Next week the House will likely take it up, but reconciliation is not the way we should fund regular operations of agencies,” Homeland security subcommittee Chairman Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) said at Friday’s hearing.

ICE and CBP are technically still under a lapse in appropriations. Those agencies were not funded under the 2026 DHS appropriations agreement that passed in May. But both still have money from the…

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