President Donald Trump (R) signed the Secure America Act, a federal budget reconciliation bill providing $70 billion in funding for border control and immigration enforcement through fiscal year 2029, into law on June 10, 2026. The U.S. Senate passed the bill on June 5, and the U.S. House of Representatives passed it on June 9.
The bill was passed through the budget reconciliation process, which allows certain bills related to spending, revenues, and debt to be brought to a vote in the Senate and passed by a simple majority vote, rather than by a three-fifths supermajority. The last budget reconciliation bill signed by Trump was the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in 2025.
The process began with a budget resolution, or a blueprint for a reconciliation bill, that the Senate adopted on April 23 and the House adopted on April 29. Senate committees then released preliminary bill text on May 4, outlining nearly $72 billion in proposed spending.
On May 16, the Senate parliamentarian ruled that a provision in the bill that would have appropriated $1 billion to the U.S. Secret Service, including funding for security upgrades to the White House ballroom project, violated the Byrd Rule and could not be included in the bill unless the rule was waived by a three-fifths vote. That provision was removed from the bill in order to move forward with the reconciliation process.
The final version of the bill included $22.6 billion for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), $3.5 billion for border security technology improvements, $38.5 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and $5 billion in additional appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The Senate passed the Secure America Act on June 5 by a 52-47 vote following a vote-a-rama, during which there were 27 roll call votes on amendments to the bill. One Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), voted against the bill, along with Democrats and two independent senators who caucus with Democrats.
The House passed the Secure America Act on June 9 by a 214-212 vote, with Republicans voting in favor of passage and Democrats and one independent member who caucuses with Republicans voting against the bill.
A June 9 statement from the White House said, “The Secure America Act puts an end to Democrats’ political games by fully funding ICE and Border Patrol through President Trump’s term and providing the resources needed to keep our border secure, combat human trafficking, stop the flow of deadly drugs, dismantle criminal cartels, and enforce America’s immigration laws.”
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) said of the bill, “$70,000,000,000 is a huge amount of our budget that could be well spent, but instead of using it to help regular people who can’t afford anything right now, we’re shoveling it into the coffers of an agency that killed two Minnesotans, sent hundreds to detention centers with horrifying conditions, and routinely denies legal immigrants the medical care they need while keeping them unjustly held against their will.”
The passage of the Secure America Act ends a months-long dispute over funding for DHS. After federal immigration officers shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in January 2026, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Democrats would not vote to advance a funding package that included a DHS appropriations bill. DHS shut down on Feb. 14 after its funding expired. The department reopened on April 30 after a 76-day shutdown — the longest shutdown of a U.S. government agency in history — with funding from a bipartisan bill that excluded appropriations for certain immigration enforcement functions.
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