10 Years of ICE Funding Act

The bill would appropriate $100,363,620,000 to ICE for operations and support — including the purchase or lease of up to 3,790 police-type vehicles, overseas vetted unit operations, and maintenance, minor construction, and leasehold improvements at ICE-owned and leased facilities. It would also appropriate $5,000,000,000 for procurement, construction, and improvements, covering acquisition of additional real property and facilities, new construction and ongoing maintenance, facility upgrades, equipment, and related costs. All appropriated funds would remain available for obligation through September 30, 2036.

The bill would explicitly override Section 501 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026, or any other law that would otherwise limit the period during which the funds could be obligated. It does not set out conditions, performance metrics, or reporting requirements on the face of the bill; the funds would be available for ICE's use under existing operational authorities.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its workforce, which would receive a decade of pre-appropriated operating and capital funding. Contractors and vendors supplying vehicles, construction, and facilities to ICE would also be directly reached. Immigrants subject to ICE enforcement, detention, and removal operations would be affected by any expansion in ICE's operational capacity funded through these dollars.

A ten-year, lump-sum appropriation of this size would free ICE from annual congressional budget battles and give the agency sustained, long-horizon planning authority. The rule-of-construction provision overriding DHS spending-limitation law is significant: it removes a legal mechanism Congress normally uses to control how and when appropriated money flows, concentrating spending discretion in the executive branch for a full decade.

Because the bill is a direct appropriation rather than an authorization, ICE could begin obligating funds immediately upon enactment without further congressional action. The rule-of-construction clause removes the standard DHS period-of-availability limit, so funds could be drawn down in any pattern ICE chooses through September 30, 2036. The bill imposes no rulemaking requirement, reporting mandate, or grant cycle. Normal executive-branch procurement and contracting rules (e.g., Federal Acquisition Regulation) would govern how ICE spends the money on vehicles, facilities, and equipment.