Expressing the support of the House of Representatives for the Department of Homeland Security.

Proponents argue that funding lapses for DHS endanger national security by degrading agency coordination, reducing personnel morale and retention, and creating operational gaps during heightened threat environments. The resolution cites recent domestic attacks (Austin shooting, NYC bomb plot attempt, synagogue attack, Old Dominion University shooting, and Iranian-attributed cyberattacks) to argue that continuous DHS funding is essential. Critics of such resolutions have traditionally viewed them as leveraging security concerns to pressure appropriations votes, though this particular resolution does not tie funding to specific policy demands and focuses on humanitarian and operational impacts on federal workers and the traveling public. Non-partisan evidence supports that multi-agency coordination is impaired during appropriations lapses and that TSA screening efficiency declines measurably (increased wait times, unscheduled absences documented in the resolution itself).