Congress must ensure the men and women tasked with securing our border have the resources and manpower necessary to properly do so.
Ensure border security resources and manpower are provided.
Occurrences
Additional areas of focus for Bill include: border security, limiting the role of the federal government, preserving the Great Lakes, and creating a sensible balance between federal regulation and private sector job creation.
Evidence
Enrolled bill status shows H.R. 7147 became the Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026, with a May 1, 2026 last action date.
The enacted text provides DHS appropriations and includes U.S. Customs and Border Protection funding for border security operations, procurement, and related personnel pay provisions.
The House engrossed H.R. 8029 on March 26, 2026; the bill is the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act, a DHS appropriations measure.
Huizenga said the bill would ensure DHS law enforcement personnel defending the borders are paid during a shutdown and cover Border Patrol and CBP officers.
Assessments
The promise was to ensure border security resources and manpower are provided. During Huizenga's current federal House term, an enacted DHS appropriations law funded U.S. Customs and Border Protection border security operations, procurement, and personnel-related support. That satisfies the broad resource-and-manpower outcome. Huizenga also materially pursued related manpower/pay legislation for DHS border personnel, but the enacted appropriations evidence is enough to count the promise as delivered in the same term rather than merely attempted.