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Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act

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Introduced:
Sep 10, 2025
Policy Area:
Immigration

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3
Actions
32
Cosponsors
1
Summaries
1
Subjects
1
Text Versions
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Sep 10, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries (1)

Introduced in House - Sep 10, 2025 00
<p><strong>Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act</strong></p><p>This bill provides FY2026 appropriations for the salaries and expenses of certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees who are required to work during a lapse in appropriations (i.e., government shutdown) in FY2026.</p><p>Specifically, the bill provides appropriations to CBP for the salaries and expenses of agents of the U.S. Border Patrol and officers of the Office of Field Operations who are excepted from furlough (i.e., required to work) during a lapse in discretionary appropriations in FY2026.&nbsp;</p>

Actions (3)

Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Type: IntroReferral | Source: House floor actions | Code: H11100
Sep 10, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: Intro-H
Sep 10, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 1000
Sep 10, 2025

Subjects (1)

Immigration (Policy Area)

Cosponsors (20 of 32)

Text Versions (1)

Introduced in House

Sep 10, 2025

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Length: 1,781 characters Version: Introduced in House Version Date: Sep 10, 2025 Last Updated: Nov 13, 2025 6:27 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5260 Introduced in House

(IH) ]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 5260

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.

_______________________________________________________________________

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.

This Act may be cited as the ``Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs
Agents Act''.
SEC. 2.
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.
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