This bill appropriates $60.3 billion in fiscal year 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security across its major agencies including TSA, Coast Guard, Secret Service, ICE, CBP, FEMA, and CISA. It maintains and modestly increases funding for border security, aviation security, emergency management, and cybersecurity operations while imposing new reporting requirements, oversight restrictions, and prohibitions on certain activities.
Who benefits
Transportation security contractors and airport operators (TSA modernization), Coast Guard personnel and defense contractors supplying MQ-9 aircraft and maritime equipment, Secret Service personnel and protective detail agencies, FEMA grant recipients including state and local emergency managers, nonprofits operating in high-risk areas, public transit agencies, firefighter departments, nonprofit security organizations, cybersecurity firms and infrastructure operators receiving threat feeds, federal law enforcement agencies receiving training at FLETC, air traffic controllers at FAA (3.8% pay raise of $140 million in Section 545), and federal agency employees receiving backup childcare services.
Who pays / loses
General taxpayers funding the $60.3 billion appropriation, federal agencies losing discretionary transfer authority due to reprogramming restrictions, contractors previously receiving sole-source awards facing new notification requirements, Coast Guard personnel affected by restrictions on Force Design 2028 organizational changes, federal employees subject to premium pay limitations for Secret Service overtime (cap set in law), detainees subject to new restraint restrictions (pregnant women), and CBP/ICE losing $15.5 million in rescinded unobligated balances.
Fiscal note: $60,293,668,513 for fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, plus $26.367 billion for Disaster Relief Fund and $226 million for National Flood Insurance Fund operations; amounts designated as disaster relief pursuant to budget concurrent resolution; specific multi-year carryover amounts for procurement and construction extending to 2030
Funding & Lobbying Interests
This is a bipartisan appropriations bill reflecting the core constituency interests of DHS: defense contractors supplying Coast Guard vessels and aviation platforms (General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Airbus for MQ-9), aviation security equipment manufacturers (checkpoint screening systems), cybersecurity firms (threat intelligence vendors), emergency response contractors (FEMA grant recipients), and federal employee unions (protecting Secret Service and TSA staffing levels). The sponsors are majority Democrats (DeLauro as chair of House Appropriations) and Republicans (Peters, Hoyer, Case), indicating broad institutional support. No new taxes or fees are enacted; this is funded through general revenues.
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