Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026: This legislation fully funds Department of Homeland Security agencies such as TSA, FEMA, CISA and others, except for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Support the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026 to fully fund DHS agencies other than ICE and CBP.
Occurrences
Evidence
The House approved a bipartisan measure by voice vote to fund most of DHS, including TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service, while excluding ICE and CBP.
Congress later passed a separate $70 billion immigration-enforcement package funding ICE and CBP through 2029; the article says none of Democrats' reform demands made it into that law.
A letter to the DHS inspector general was signed by House representatives including Veronica Escobar, urging an investigation into ICE's unreliable detainee locator system.
Assessments
The underlying policy outcome partly materialized in the House during Escobar's current federal service: a bipartisan DHS funding measure excluding ICE and CBP was approved, which matches the substance of the claim. But the available evidence does not show Escobar's own recorded vote, sponsorship, or other direct support for that specific 2026 appropriations measure, and the later enacted immigration-enforcement package moved in the opposite direction. Because candidate-specific support is not established, full delivery is not justified.