Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2026

Floor Speech

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Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, let me summarize how we got here: Department of Homeland Security immigration agents killed two American citizens in Minneapolis. and Democrats demanded accountability from the Trump administration.

Instead of working with Democrats to enact meaningful reforms--to rein in the agencies that killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti-- congressional Republicans shut down the department. Now, Republicans are proposing to end their disastrous DHS shutdown by creating a multi- billion-dollar slush fund without any oversight at all.

We have seen this story before. Last year, when congressional Republicans gave more than $160 billion to Trump's DHS in the Big, Ugly Bill, then-Secretary Kristi Noem decided she wanted luxury private jets. This time. S. Con. Res. 33 directs the House Homeland Security Committee to spend up to $70 billion on U.S. Border Patrol, which Republicans say is only supposed to last for the rest of the Trump administration. That would mean for the next three years, Border Patrol's budget would triple. That's in addition to the billions of dollars they receive last summer.

And it gets worse: This budget resolution also directs the Judiciary Committee to spend an additional $70 billion for ICE. That is double ICE's annual budget per year--on top on the $75 billion gifted to them by Republicans in the Big, Ugly Bill.

Mr. Speaker, we need to oppose this reckless spending and fight for justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti and all the folks who have been terrorized by the Trump administration. Vote ``no'' on S. Con. Res. 333.

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