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Providing for Disposition of Senate Amendment to H.R. Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026

Floor Speech

Date: March 27, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. STANTON. Mr. Speaker, we should have voted today, we should have voted yesterday, last week, last month to fund every department in Homeland Security, but not more money for ICE without changes.

That is what House Democrats are fighting for, and this morning, the Senate passed a bill unanimously to do just that, every single Senator, Democrat and Republican. Speaker Johnson called that Senate bill a joke.

Let me tell you what is not a joke: Cybersecurity experts going without pay on the same day Iran hacked the Director of the FBI, FEMA being dismantled in real time, or TSA agents launching GoFundMe accounts to pay for gas and groceries.

Instead of taking up the Senate bill, House Republicans are choosing to give even more money to Trump's mass deportation machine beyond the $75 billion slush fund they gave ICE last summer. There is no accountability, no oversight, no limits.

Let's be clear about what is happening. DHS is shut down because Republicans are refusing to listen to the vast majority of the American people who want to see changes to ICE. I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''

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