H.R. 7147 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
H.R. 7147 - Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
Hearing Information
Meeting Information
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 2:00pm H-313, The Capitol View Announcement »
Video
Bill Text
(as introduced)
Joint Exploratory Statement
- Division C PDF
(as prepared to be inserted into the Congressional Record)
Hearing Documents
Rule PDF
H. Rept. 119-462PDF
Amendment to H. Res. 1014 PDF
Rule Information
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE of 9-4 on January, 22, 2026.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 1014:
Agreed to by a record vote of 214-213, after agreeing to the previous question by a record vote of 215-213, on Thursday, January 22, 2026.
MANAGERS: Foxx/McGovern
1. Structured rule for H.R. 7148.
2. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
3. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective designees.
4. Provides that the amendment printed in part A of the Rules Committee report shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
6. Makes in order only the further amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report. Each such further amendment shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
7. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report.
8. Provides one motion to recommit.
9. Closed rule for H.R. 7147.
10. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
11. Provides that the bill shall be considered as read.
12. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill.
13. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective designees.
14. Provides one motion to recommit.
15. Provides that the chair of the Committee on Appropriations may insert in the Congressional Record not later than January 23, 2026, such material as he may deem explanatory of H.R. 7148 and H.R. 7147.
16. Provides that the Clerk shall not transmit to the Senate a message that the House has passed H.R. 7148 until H.R. 7147 is passed by the House.
17. Provides that in the engrossment of H.R. 7148, the Clerk shall add the text of Divisions A, B, and C of H.R. 7006, as passed by the House, as new matter to follow Division D of H.R. 7148, redesignated as Divisions E, F,
and G, respectively; add the text of titles I through V of H.R. 7147, as passed by the House, as new matter designated as Division H, to follow the text added pursuant to subsection (a); redesignate Divisions E and F
of H.R. 7148 as Divisions I and J, respectively; assign appropriate designations to provisions within the engrossment; conform cross references and provisions for short titles within the engrossment; and be
authorized to make technical corrections, to include corrections in spelling, punctuation, page and line numbering, section numbering, and insertion of appropriate headings.
18. Provides that House Resolution 375, amended by the amendments printed in part C of the Rules Committee report, is hereby adopted.
Amendments (click each header to sort table ▲▼ by that column)
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Version 1 | Cloud (TX), Biggs (AZ), Moore (AL) | Republican | Prohibits the Federal Reserve from studying, developing, or issuing a central bank digital currency. | Submitted |
| 2 | Version 1 | Beatty (OH) | Democrat | Requires DHS to develop and implement de-escalation training for all U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. | Submitted |
| 3 | Version 1 | Roy (TX) | Republican | Strikes Section 216. | Submitted |
| 4 | Version 1 | Salinas (OR), Amo (RI), Horsford (NV) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds for arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement without a warrant or against U.S. Citizens. | Submitted |
| 5 | Version 1 | Titus (NV), Amo (RI) | Democrat | Reduces the salary of Secretary Kristi Noem to $1. | Submitted |
| 6 | Version 1 | Pettersen (CO) | Democrat | Requires ICE to alert the next of kin of a child whose parents have been detained by ICE. This would prevent ICE and DHS from placing a child in foster care if there are family members who can take them in. | Submitted |
| 7 | Version 1 | Pettersen (CO) | Democrat | Prohibits the transfer of law enforcement from other federal law enforcement agencies to ICE. | Submitted |
| 8 | Version 1 | Pettersen (CO) | Democrat | Prohibits ICE from holding detainees in federal prisons. | Submitted |
| 9 | Version 2 | Ruiz (CA), Amo (RI) | Democrat | Revised Requires publication of a report on the DHS website of all detainees of CPB or ICE locations within the first 24 hours of arrival and within 24 hours of transferring to another facility. | Revised |
| 10 | Version 2 | Ruiz (CA), Amo (RI) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits funds from this act from being used to prevent a detainee from being able to sign a congressional casework authorization | Revised |
| 11 | Version 1 | Quigley (IL), Horsford (NV), Johnson (TX), Fletcher (TX) | Democrat | Repeals 8 USC 1357(a)(2), requires utilization of body cameras for ICE and CBP agents, restricts use of facial coverings during immigration enforcement operations, restricts the use of chemical agents during enforcement operations, and restricts enforcement operations in or near sensitive locations. | Submitted |
| 12 | Version 2 | Ramirez (IL) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the use of funding to deport veterans, including non-citizen veterans. | Revised |
| 13 | Version 2 | Ramirez (IL) | Democrat | Revised Inserts the text of H.R. 7119, the DHS Use of Force Oversight Act, which amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require a department-wide policy on use of force and de-escalation by DHS agents, and build a mechanism for reporting and oversight. | Revised |
| 14 | Version 2 | Ramirez (IL) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits any funds made available by this title from being used to facilitate the transfer of non-citizens from any U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility to the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | Revised |
| 15 | Version 2 | Ramirez (IL) | Democrat | Revised Requires that all ICE agents must be subjected to background checks and barred based on convictions of hate crimes, terrorism, conspiracy, sedition, murder, obstruction of an official proceeding, weapons offenses, assault and battery, sexual assault, and child abuse. | Revised |
| 16 | Version 2 | Ramirez (IL) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits any funds made available by this title from being used to effectuate the removal from the United States of any non-citizen to a third-country prison, except in compliance with treaty obligations and Federal extradition laws and policies. | Revised |
| 17 | Version 2 | Ramirez (IL) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits any funds made available by this title from being used to effectuate the removal from the United States of a pregnant woman, except in compliance with treaty obligations and Federal extradition laws and policies. | Revised |
| 18 | Version 2 | Ramirez (IL) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits any funds made available by this title from being used to separate families in violation of the Ms. L Settlement. | Revised |
| 19 | Version 2 | Ramirez (IL) | Democrat | Revised Section 100016 of Public Law 119-21 is repealed, and any unobligated amounts collected and available pursuant to such section are hereby rescinded. | Revised |
| 20 | Version 1 | Goldman (NY), Min (CA), Goodlander (NH) | Democrat | Amends Section 547 of the bill to prohibit funds from this or any other Act from being used to prevent a Member of Congress from conducting oversight of any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens. | Submitted |
| 21 | Version 2 | Johnson (GA), Dexter (OR) | Democrat | Revised Adds language that allows citizens to recover damages for constitutional violations committed against them by federal officials, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Identical to H.R. 6091 (119th Congress). | Revised |
| 22 | Version 1 | Goldman (NY) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from being used to implement Sections 100002, 100003, 100005, or 100009 of Public Law 119-21, which imposed new immigration fees. | Submitted |
| 23 | Version 2 | Crane (AZ) | Republican | Revised Prohibits censorship and protects Freedom of Speech by codifying EO 14149 at the Department of Homeland Security. | Revised |
| 24 | Version 1 | Goldman (NY), Goodlander (NH) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from being used to arrest or detain any individual while that individual is entering, exiting, or physically present at an Executive Office for Immigration Review immigration court facility for the purpose of attending or participating in a hearing. | Submitted |
| 25 | Version 1 | Garcia (TX), Johnson (TX) | Democrat | Zeroes out funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. | Submitted |
| 26 | Version 1 | Crow (CO) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds to pay or reimburse a contract detention facility found by IHSC or ICE OPR to have provided medical care that directly contributed to the death of a detainee. | Submitted |
| 27 | Version 1 | Crow (CO) | Democrat | Prohibits funds made available by this Act and PL 119-21 to be obligated or spent to build, operate, or use detention facilities to which Congressional access has not been facilitated | Submitted |
| 28 | Version 1 | Salinas (OR) | Democrat | Prohibits any funds to be used to construct a detention facility in Oregon. | Submitted |
| 29 | Version 2 | Gomez (CA), Dexter (OR) | Democrat | Revised Fully Rescinds Mandatory Funding for Immigration Enforcement, Detention, and related State and Local Grant Programs, as well as repealing new immigration fees, made law under 18 provisions from PL 119-21 (Commonly Referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill). Substanatively Identical to H.R. 6390, including creating five new tax credits related to Housing including a First Time Homebuyer Credit, a Starter Home Construction Credit, a Affordable Housing Conversion Credit, a LIHTC Boost for Extremely Low Income Households, and a Renters Tax Credit | Revised |
| 30 | Version 1 | Crow (CO) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds to enter into a new contract for the operation of any private, for-profit immigration detention facility | Submitted |
| 31 | Version 1 | Edwards (NC) | Republican | Expands the P nonimmigrant visa category to allow foreign workers to enter the United States temporarily to perform essential operational functions for mobile entertainment providers, such as carnivals. | Submitted |
| 32 | Version 2 | Tiffany (WI) | Republican | Revised Prohibits the expenditure of funds to admit any national of the People's Republic of China to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) without a valid United States visa. | Revised |
| 33 | Version 1 | Goldman (NY), Min (CA), Menendez (NJ), Walkinshaw (VA), Goodlander (NH) | Democrat | Prohibits funds for immigration enforcement activities unless immigration officers provide identification of the component of DHS that employs the officer, display a visible official insignia on their uniform, and do not wear masks or face coverings. | Submitted |
| 34 | Version 1 | Subramanyam (VA) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from this act from being used for the acquisition of any new aircraft for the use by Secretary Noem or to enter into any contracts with any relative or personal friend of Secretary Noem for goods or services that bypass normal review procedures. | Submitted |
| 35 | Version 2 | Menendez (NJ), McIver (NJ), Watson Coleman (NJ) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the use of funding for the construction, renovation, or operation of any warehouse facility or any structure that was previously used or repurposed for use as a warehouse for the purposes of immigration detention. | Revised |
| 36 | Version 1 | Jayapal (WA), Fletcher (TX) | Democrat | No funds shall be made available to ICE to detain and deport U.S. citizens while conducting civil Immigration enforcement. | Submitted |
| 37 | Version 1 | Veasey (TX) | Democrat | The salary of James Joseph Rodden, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Chief Counsel, shall be reduced to $1. | Submitted |
| 38 | Version 2 | Higgins (LA) | Republican | Revised Prohibits DHS funding to the District of Columbia unless Washington D.C. removes sanctuary policies and complies with lawful detainer requests from the Department of Homeland Security. Similar to H.R. 2056 (119th Congress). | Revised |
| 39 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ) | Republican | Prohibits funds for the unauthorized OPT program. | Submitted |
| 40 | Version 1 | Torres (CA) | Democrat | Guarantees and expands the right to counsel to ensure constitutional rights are respected. | Submitted |
| 41 | Version 1 | Torres (CA) | Democrat | Blocks any funding from being used to dismantle or undermine the Flores Settlement Agreement, which protects children in immigration custody with basic standards like safe conditions and limits on detention time. | Submitted |
| 42 | Version 1 | Randall (WA) | Democrat | Prohibits immigration enforcement at disaster response locations, ensuring that first responders can focus on saving lives without fear of detention or deportation. | Submitted |
| 43 | Version 1 | Torres (CA) | Democrat | Provides $16.8 billion in emergency FEMA funding to help communities recover from major disasters in 2025, including wildfires, floods, and tornadoes across at least 13 states. | Submitted |
| 44 | Version 1 | Fletcher (TX) | Democrat | Prohibits any funds made available by this act from being used to conduct immigration enforcement activities unless DHS implements a policy that prohibits federal immigration agents from wearing face coverings and requires them to clearly identify themselves and any vehicles used when conducting any immigration enforcement activities. | Submitted |
| 45 | Version 1 | Torres (CA) | Democrat | Prohibits the deportation of non-citizen U.S. military veterans without legal counsel and a fair hearing, and requires DHS to report on veteran deportation cases. | Submitted |
| 46 | Version 2 | Roy (TX) | Republican | Revised Prohibits any funds made available by this Act from being used in contravention of Executive Order 14287: Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens. | Revised |
| 47 | Version 1 | Bell (MO) | Democrat | Prohibiting Secretary of Homeland Security from using these funds to produce, purchase, distribute, or broadcast television advertisements that promote ICE, recruit for ICE, or enhance public perception, branding or images of ICE. | Submitted |
| 48 | Version 1 | Salinas (OR) | Democrat | To prohibit any of these funds to be used for implementation of Section 100052(2) of Public Law 119-21 related to ICE retention and bonus funds. | Submitted |
| 49 | Version 1 | Landsman (OH), Goodlander (NH) | Democrat | This amendment requires that for ICE to access the funding in the underlying bill, it must implement a regulation that whenever ICE is conducting an enforcement action outside of a 100 mile radius of the Southern Border, that they must notify any local law enforcement agency whose jurisdiction they are operating in. Furthermore, they are required to coordinate and collaborate with those local law enforcement agencies if the local agencies choose. | Submitted |
| 50 | Version 1 | Dingell (MI), Friedman (CA), Thanedar (MI) | Democrat | Ensures TSA employees are paid during government shutdowns by redirecting funding from the the account for building and expanding new ICE detention centers to support essential TSA workers during prolonged funding lapses. | Submitted |
| 51 | Version 1 | Craig (MN) | Democrat | Prohibits funds made available by this Act from being used to pay the salary and expenses of the position of Secretary of Homeland Security, occupied by Kristi Noem. | Submitted |
| 52 | Version 1 | Leger Fernández (NM) | Democrat | Increases and decreases U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Operations and Support to provide compensation for U.S. citizens who were wrongfully arrested and detained by DHS agents. | Submitted |
| 53 | Version 1 | Moulton (MA) | Democrat | Strikes ICE funding and reallocates those funds to support the ACA enhanced premium tax credits. Substantially identical to H.R.7071 in 119th Congress. | Submitted |
| 54 | Version 2 | Espaillat (NY), Ramirez (IL), Garcia (TX) | Democrat | Revised Bans immigration enforcement in places of worship. | Revised |
| 55 | Version 2 | Menendez (NJ), Watson Coleman (NJ), Norcross (NJ) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the use of funding to support any ICE detention facility that does not provide safe and adequate accommodations, including protection from extreme weather conditions, for visitors. | Revised |
| 56 | Version 1 | Scanlon (PA), Goodlander (NH) | Democrat | Prohibits the reprogramming of FEMA funds for immigration enforcement. | Submitted |
| 57 | Version 3 | Tlaib (MI) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits any funds made available by this Act from being used for the construction of a detention facility in Michigan. | Revised |
| 58 | Version 1 | Johnson (TX) | Democrat | Limits qualified immunity for federal officers (ICE). | Submitted |
| 59 | Version 1 | Moskowitz (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds to support or enact a June 11, 2025 Department of Homeland Security directive requiring additional review or approval for Federal Emergency Management Agency contracts, grants, or obligations over $100,000 related to a presidentially declared emergency or major disaster. | Submitted |
| 60 | Version 1 | Horsford (NV), Lee (NV), Olszewski (MD), Salinas (OR), Garcia (IL), Fletcher (TX) | Democrat | Extends oversight authorities provided to Members of Congress via Public Law 118–47, Section 527, to all federally provided funding. | Submitted |
| 61 | Version 1 | Crockett (TX) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of Federal funds as appropriated in H.R. 7147 to the Department of Homeland Security to carry out any civil immigration enforcement activity under the immigration laws unless each officer conducting such an action is not wearing a mask or facial covering that hides the identity of the officer, and clearly identifies themselves verbally and visibly. | Submitted |
| 62 | Version 1 | Stansbury (NM) | Democrat | Defunds ICE. | Submitted |
| 63 | Version 1 | Stansbury (NM) | Democrat | Withdrawn Spends money from defunding ICE on community based mental health and substance use disorder programs. | Withdrawn |
| 64 | Version 2 | Johnson (TX) | Democrat | Revised Grant undocumented people bond hearing in reasonable time | Revised |
| 65 | Version 1 | Stansbury (NM) | Democrat | Withdrawn Doubles funding for Community Health Centers | Withdrawn |
| 66 | Version 1 | Johnson (TX), Goodlander (NH) | Democrat | Requires a mandatory investigation to all ICE involved shootings. | Submitted |
| 67 | Version 1 | Wasserman Schultz (FL), Soto (FL), Wilson (FL), Schneider (IL), Frankel (FL), Frost (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from being used to detain or remove Haitian or Venezuelan nationals who were granted Temporary Protected Status and continue to meet eligibility requirements for TPS, which is unavailable to individuals with disqualifying criminal convictions. | Submitted |
| 68 | Version 2 | Crane (AZ) | Republican | Revised Halts the transfer of firearms to cartel members. | Revised |
| 69 | Version 1 | Leger Fernández (NM) | Democrat | Requires DHS to follow Policy Statement 044-05 (Revision 01) dated February 6, 2023 regarding use of force. | Submitted |
| 70 | Version 1 | Garcia (TX), Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Prohibits the funds made available by this Act from being used for an immigration enforcement activity during which an employee or officer of the Department of Homeland Security does not wear a standard uniform. | Submitted |
| 71 | Version 1 | Dexter (OR) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of federal funds made available to the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a civil immigration enforcement action unless each covered immigration officer conducting actions is not wearing a mask or facial covering, is using a vehicle that clearly identifies the name of the agency, and clearly identifies themselves verbally and visibly. | Submitted |
| 72 | Version 2 | Goldman (NY) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the use of funds for the seizure of voting machines by DHS. | Revised |
| 73 | Version 1 | Garcia (IL) | Democrat | Requires the DHS Inspector General to conduct investigations into killings, deaths in custody, discharged firearms, and use of force by CBP and ICE. | Submitted |
| 74 | Version 1 | Garcia (IL) | Democrat | Strikes section 214. | Submitted |
| 75 | Version 2 | Goodlander (NH) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits any funds to be used to detain individuals in industrial warehouses. | Revised |
| 76 | Version 1 | Garcia (IL) | Democrat | Prohibits funding from being used for detention. | Submitted |
| 77 | Version 1 | Garcia (IL) | Democrat | Prohibits funding from being used for enforcement actions at sensitive locations. | Submitted |
| 78 | Version 1 | Pappas (NH), Lee (NV), Stanton (AZ), Goodlander (NH) | Democrat | Redirects excess funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to local law enforcement programs to help hire and train 200,000 local cops. | Submitted |
| 79 | Version 1 | Johnson (TX) | Democrat | Requires ICE officers to recite the right to remain silent and other Miranda Rights before detaining an individual. | Submitted |
| 80 | Version 1 | Roy (TX) | Republican | Revises Section 216 on the care of unaccompanied alien children in sponsor custody. | Submitted |
| 81 | Version 1 | Morrison (MN) | Democrat | Reduces ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations by $500 million to pay for H.R. 3408, the Pathways to Policing Act, which provides funding for state and local law enforcement agencies to address recruitment challenges and staffing shortages. | Submitted |
Committee Votes
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 243
Motion by Mr. McGovern to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendments #2, 4, 6 through 21, 24 through 30, 33, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47 through 50, 52 through 58, 60 through 63, 66, and 69 through 71, offered by dozens of Democratic Members, to H.R. 7147, which would collectively rein in the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. Defeated: 4–9
Majority Members
Vote
Minority Members
Vote
Mrs. Fischbach
Nay
Mr. Norman
Nay
Mr. Roy
Nay
Mrs. Houchin
Nay
Mr. Langworthy
Nay
Mr. Scott (GA)
Nay
Mr. Griffith
Nay
Mr. Jack
Nay
Ms. Foxx, Chair
Nay
Mr. McGovern
Yea
Ms. Scanlon
Yea
Mr. Neguse
Yea
Ms. Leger Fernández
Yea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 246
Motion by Ms. Leger Fernández to make in order amendment #52 to H.R. 7147, offered by Representative Leger Fernández, which would increase and decrease U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Operations and Support to support providing compensation for U.S. citizens who were wrongfully arrested and detained by DHS agents. Defeated: 4–9
Majority Members
Vote
Minority Members
Vote
Mrs. Fischbach
Nay
Mr. Norman
Nay
Mr. Roy
Nay
Mrs. Houchin
Nay
Mr. Langworthy
Nay
Mr. Scott (GA)
Nay
Mr. Griffith
Nay
Mr. Jack
Nay
Ms. Foxx, Chair
Nay
Mr. McGovern
Yea
Ms. Scanlon
Yea
Mr. Neguse
Yea
Ms. Leger Fernández
Yea
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 247
Motion by Mr. Griffith to report the rule. Adopted: 9–4
Majority Members
Vote
Minority Members
Vote
Mrs. Fischbach
Yea
Mr. Norman
Yea
Mr. Roy
Yea
Mrs. Houchin
Yea
Mr. Langworthy
Yea
Mr. Scott (GA)
Yea
Mr. Griffith
Yea
Mr. Jack
Yea
Ms. Foxx, Chair
Yea
Mr. McGovern
Nay
Ms. Scanlon
Nay
Mr. Neguse
Nay
Ms. Leger Fernández
Nay