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Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act

Making appropriations for the salaries and expenses of certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees working during a Government shutdown in fiscal year 2026, and for other purposes.

Introduced Sep 10, 2025

Latest action (Sep 10, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Referred to
Appropriations Committee
Policy area
Immigration
Issues
Immigration

Summary
  • Appropriates funds from the Treasury for fiscal year 2026 to pay Border Patrol Agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations officers during government shutdowns.
  • Covers employees excepted from furlough during a lapse in appropriations, meaning those required to continue working.
  • Applies to any shutdown period in fiscal year 2026 beginning after the bill's enactment.
  • Authorizes such sums as necessary to pay the salaries and expenses of these employees during government shutdowns.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
32 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Monica De La Cruz’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • SELF EMPLOYED $88,998
  • Employer not reported $50,988
  • RIO FRESH INC $14,200
  • ELLIOTT INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT $13,200
  • BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $13,200

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Monica De La Cruz → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Sep 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. · house
  2. Sep 10, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 1916 — Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 86%
  • S 3681 — Keep Our Border Agents Paid Act · Introduced Jan 15, 2026 · Cong. 119 81%
  • HR 5398 — Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act of 2026 · Introduced Sep 16, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 8206 — Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026 · Introduced Apr 6, 2026 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HRES 1168 — Recognizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for their work in protecting communities from violent criminals and illegal aliens. · Introduced Apr 14, 2026 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 424 — State Border Security Reimbursement Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Sep 10, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 10, 2025

Ms. De La Cruz (for herself, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Patronis, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Fry, and Mrs. Hinson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations

A BILL

Making appropriations for the salaries and expenses of certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees working during a Government shutdown in fiscal year 2026, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act”.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT OF SALARIES OF CERTAIN CBP EMPLOYEES WORKING DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

There are appropriated for fiscal year 2026, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary to pay, during any period of a lapse in discretionary appropriations during such fiscal year beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this section, the salaries and expenses of any Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol and officers of the Office of Field Operations within U.S. Customs and Border Protection excepted from furlough during such lapse. <all>

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