HR 8029
Passed a chamber
Provides funding for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2026, covering its management, border and immigration enforcement, Coast Guard, Secret Service, disaster and preparedness grants, and related agencies, and makes the bill's short-term funding provisions effective for the period after the recent funding lapse.
Official title: Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
20-MAR-2026
Referred
20-MAR-2026
On the calendar
24-MAR-2026
Passed
26-MAR-2026
Senate
Received
02-APR-2026
- Appropriates funds across Department of Homeland Security components, including Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Coast Guard, Secret Service, and FEMA, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026
- Sets FEMA grant levels, including $494,000,000 for State Homeland Security Grants and $584,250,000 for Urban Area Security Initiative grants, and $26,367,000,000 for the Disaster Relief Fund
- Requires periodic reports and briefings to Congress on ICE detention, acquisition programs, and spending plans, and rescinds several unobligated balances
- Ratifies obligations made under the continuing appropriations that covered the lapse in appropriations beginning on or about February 13, 2026
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (20-MAR-2026); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 26-MAR-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Budget Committee (House)
- Appropriations Committee (House)
Economics and Public Finance
No cosponsors.