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Marie Gluesenkamp PerezDemocrat · Washington 3rd · Lean R+2House Committee on AppropriationsOn the ballot
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Sponsored by Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) · 0 active
Latest action: Received in the Senate.
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
This bill provides appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the remainder of FY2026. It also ends the partial DHS shutdown that began on February 14, 2026, because the continuing resolution (CR) that was funding DHS expired and a regular FY2026 DHS appropriations bill had not been enacted.
Specifically, the bill provides appropriations to DHS for Departmental Management, Intelligence, Situational Awareness, and Oversight, including
the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management;
the Management Directorate;
Intelligence, Analysis, and Situational Awareness; and
the Office of Inspector General.
In addition, the bill provides appropriations for Security, Enforcement, and Investigations, including
U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
the Transportation Security Administration,
the U.S. Coast Guard, and
the U.S. Secret Service.
The bill provides appropriations for Protection, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery, including
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The bill provides appropriations for Research, Development, Training, and Services, including
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, and
Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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the Science and Technology Directorate.
The bill also authorizes back pay, in accordance with current law, for federal employees who were affected by the partial DHS shutdown.
Finally, the bill ratifies and approves certain obligations that were incurred during the partial DHS shutdown, including obligations incurred to maintain the essential level of activity to protect life and property and bring about an orderly termination of government functions.
These members have less than half of the model’s inputs, so their scores are not banded or ranked.
Ideology is each member’s score. The cluster low on the chart includes the bill’s 1 sponsor and cosponsor in the House: they have already committed, so they score as entrenched. 2 representatives without a DW-NOMINATE score or with insufficient data are not plotted.
Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 164.0 (needs 5.0).
