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H.R. 8029119th CongressEconomics and Public Finance
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
Sponsored by Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) · 0 active
Latest action: Received in the Senate.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate15 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedMar 26, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govPay 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;
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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
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Appropriations · HouseReferred to
- House Committee on the Budget · HouseReferred to
Subjects
- Appropriations
- Aviation and airports
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Citizenship and naturalization
- Coast guard
- Computer security and identity theft
- Congressional oversight
- Customs enforcement
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Transportation
- Detention of persons
- Director of National Intelligence
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Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 15Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 23Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
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.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
0 activeThis bill has no cosponsors.
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
