06/14/2026
Congress passed the Secure America Act on June 9, 2026, using the reconciliation process to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and parts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), subagencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The bill gives ICE and CBP a total of $69.5 billion dollars until September 30, 2029, which includes almost an entire fiscal year of the next president’s first term following the 2028 election. This funding adds to the $170 billion dollars that DHS received last summer in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which also lasts through September 30, 2029.
With the passage of the Secure America Act, Congress has now provided nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars to DHS through the budget reconciliation process in less than a year, nearly all of which has been focused on immigration enforcement. ICE will receive $38.5 billion—nearly four times its annual FY 2025 budget. Most of this funding is allocated towards hiring new ICE officers and carrying out immigration enforcement functions, including transporting noncitizens between detention centers and for deportations, as well as other mission support functions for ICE’s deportation operations.
The bill includes a substantial focus on enforcement against states and localities that do not participate in federal immigration enforcement. For example, it specifically allocates $350 million for ICE enforcement operations in cities and states that do not participate
While ICE and CBP’s budgets usually go through the regular government funding process, that process broke down earlier this year. Democrats demanded reforms to immigration enforcement policies and practices. However, those efforts failed, and as of the passage of the Secure America Act, ICE and CBP have still not received funding through the normal appropriations process.
Instead, Republicans used the reconciliation process to fund these agencies. The Secure America Act passed by a 52-47 largely party line vote in the Senate with one Republican senator joining all Democratic and Independent senators to vote against the bill. In the House, the vote was 214-212, mostly along party lines as well.
Funding ICE and Border Patrol through the term.
