I cannot support another dime to DHS until that happens.
Withhold support for additional Department of Homeland Security funding until the administration changes course and meets the stated conditions.
Occurrences
I have been saying for months that I would not support additional offensive weapon sales to Israel that could be used against innocent Palestinians.
ICE must be defunded and dismantled, and I cannot support another dime to DHS until that happens.
Evidence
The FY2026 Homeland Security Appropriations Act was passed by the House on 01/22/2026, and the table shows continuing appropriations for Homeland Security through 2/13/2026.
On Jan. 22, 2026, the House passed H.R. 7147, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026, by a vote of 220-207.
On April 30, 2026, committee Democrats said House Republican leadership had 'finally abandoned' opposition and allowed a vote on a unanimous Senate-passed bill after 'shutting down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for 76 days'; the bill passed overwhelmingly.
DeGette said, 'I have consistently said that I am ready to pass a bill that reopens the government and ends the Republican health care crisis... I am a HELL NO on this bill because it does nothing to lower health care costs...'
The committee said a discharge petition was opened to bring up a bill that would fund TSA, FEMA, CISA, and the Coast Guard during the DHS shutdown.
The official homepage currently features a statement indicating DeGette is opposing additional DHS funding.
The homepage's June 9 latest-news item says DeGette voted no on Republicans' second reconciliation package tied to the administration's immigration agenda.
DeGette announced before the DHS funding vote that she would vote against DHS funding and said she could not support another dime to DHS until ICE was defunded and dismantled.
The Clerk recorded H.R. 7147 as passing the House 220-207 on January 22, 2026; DeGette is listed as voting Nay.
Congress.gov says H.R. 7147 provided FY2026 appropriations for DHS, including CBP, ICE, TSA, Coast Guard, Secret Service, CISA, FEMA, USCIS, and related restrictions, and passed the House on January 22, 2026.
The Clerk recorded the House motion to concur in Senate amendments to H.R. 7148 as passing 217-214 on February 3, 2026; DeGette is listed as voting Nay.
Congress.gov records H.R. 7148 becoming Public Law 119-75 on February 3, 2026, after House agreement to Senate amendments; CRS summarizes it as providing continuing FY2026 appropriations for DHS through February 13, 2026.
Public Law 119-75 is the enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, and includes a division for further continuing appropriations.
The enrolled H.R. 7147 text is titled the Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026; it provides DHS appropriations while setting the final-bill amounts for ICE and CBP Border Security Operations in the explanatory statement at $0.
The enrolled DHS bill appropriates $11,083,012,000 for U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations and support and $222,886,000 for CBP procurement, construction, and improvements.
Public Law 119-21 appropriated major additional amounts through September 30, 2029, including $46.55 billion for CBP border infrastructure, $45 billion for ICE detention capacity, and $29.85 billion for ICE hiring, training, bonuses, and related purposes.
DeGette said she voted no on a second reconciliation package that she described as adding $70 billion for Trump's immigration agenda, and said she was focused on clawing back remaining ICE and CBP funds.
Assessments
The promise was framed as DeGette withholding her own support for additional DHS funding until stated conditions were met, not as a guarantee that Congress would block all DHS appropriations. In the same federal term, she publicly announced she would vote against DHS funding, voted Nay on House DHS appropriations and continuing-funding measures, and later opposed additional immigration-enforcement funding while seeking to claw back ICE/CBP funds. DHS funding still passed over her opposition, so she did not achieve the broader policy result, but she did fulfill the candidate-level commitment to withhold her support.
DeGette appears to have materially acted on the promise by publicly opposing additional DHS funding and casting at least one clear no vote on a package tied to the administration's immigration agenda during the same term. But the record provided does not firmly show full delivery of a condition-based withholding strategy across the relevant DHS funding fight, nor does it show that she sustained that position until the stated conditions were met. At the same time, DHS funding ultimately moved through Congress via broader appropriations action, and the evidence does not credit DeGette with decisively achieving the promised outcome. That supports partial credit for meaningful follow-through, not full delivery.
The promise is framed as a position: withhold support for additional DHS funding until the administration changes course and meets stated conditions. The record provided does not show DeGette fully carried through a sustained withholding strategy that produced those conditions being met. Instead, the evidence shows DHS funding ultimately moved through House and bipartisan appropriations action in 2026, and committee Democrats pursued mechanisms to restore or advance funding during the standoff. At the same time, there is some indication of conditional opposition to funding bills and willingness to vote no unless policy conditions were addressed, which gives the claim some support as an effort or partial follow-through. Because the evidence does not clearly establish that DeGette herself maintained the promised withholding until the administration met the stated conditions, full delivery is not supported; but there is enough evidence of conditional resistance and related legislative posture to warrant partial credit rather than never.