The House Appropriations Committee Thursday approved a 2027 Homeland Security funding bill that allocates $34.1 billion to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
That's $2 billion above the current year level, and comes as the Trump administration is in the middle of an
"On our road to restoring regular order this time around, I hope we've learned that when this process is disrupted, it is the people we serve who bear the consequences," House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee Chair Mark Amodei, R-Nev., said last week when the subcommittee passed its bill.
The full House Appropriations Committee Thursday morning passed the $65 billion bill by a vote of 34-27, advancing it to the House floor.
The vote came the day after President Trump signed a separate $70 billion reconciliation bill that funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the next three fiscal years, through the end of his term.
Democrats criticized the use of reconciliation as a way around the traditional appropriations process and said the two measures combined send too much money to the agencies.
"In 45 years as a member of the Congress with focus on this committee, I cannot recall a situation in which we have met to consider an appropriation bill for the coming fiscal year [in] the same week that the majority pushes through the House a partisan reconciliation bill to fund that same department for that current fiscal year," said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., during the markup session.
"This is not just an absence of regular order; it is complete and utter disorder and undermining of the appropriations process," he said.
The 2027 appropriations bill funds FEMA, the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The FEMA funding includes $28.39 billion as an allocation adjustment for major disaster response and recovery activities.
The House panel passed the bill after three long markup sessions that saw the adoption of several amendments. Among the amendments rejected by the committee was one from Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., that would have killed a recent measure from the Office of Management and Budget that gives political appointees control over the issuance of all federal grants, including FEMA grants.
Democrats warned the proposal would "weaponize" and "politicize" disaster assistance funds. Comments
After signing the $70 reconciliation bill into law, Trump called on Republicans to pass a third reconciliation bill "ASAP," this one to fund defense priorities.
"I am hereby calling on Republicans in Congress to IMMEDIATELY advance and pass the forthcoming $350 Billion Reconciliation Bill (Recon 3.0) — which, at the request of our Great Department of War — will include THE SAVE AMERICA ACT as well," Trump
Last year's One Big Beautiful Bill Act was the first reconciliation bill. The muni market watches the reconciliation process closely as it can be used to pass tax and revenue changes, including potential threats to the tax exemption.
House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, has said he wants to pass a third reconciliation bill before the August recession but Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has been noncommittal about the prospect.
