House Republicans advanced legislation on Tuesday laying out funding plans for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal 2026, calling for boosts to immigration enforcement efforts.

The GOP-led House Appropriations Committee approved the bill along party lines on Tuesday evening after members spent hours debating the legislation and proposed changes to the text.

The bill allows for about $66 billion in total discretionary funding for fiscal year 2026, with the non-defense portion of those funds accounting for roughly $63 billion, or nearly two percent higher than current levels. It also calls for about a one percent decrease in defense funds for the annual bill, amounting to about $3.3 billion.

Additionally, the bill allows for $26.5 billion in funding for what negotiators describe as “major disaster response and recovery activities” and $6.3 billion in discretionary appropriations offset by fee collections.

The measure comes as Republicans are also looking to greenlight further funding for the administration’s mass deportation plans and immigration enforcement as part of a separate package aimed at advancing the president’s tax agenda that GOP leadership hopes to pass before August.

Among the biggest increases in the plan advanced on Tuesday is a nearly $1 billion boost for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which would see $11 billion under the House GOP proposal. Republicans say the funding would allow for 50,000 detention beds, an increase for Transportation and Removal Operations to “effectuate the removal orders of the more than 1.3 million aliens who no longer have a legal basis to remain in this country.”

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