Vetting operations may not be cut back without a new statute
What the document says“None of the funds provided by this Act, provided by previous appropriations Acts that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collection of fees available to the components funded by this Act, may be used to reduce anticipated or planned vetting operations at existing locations”
Section 206(b). No money from this Act, from earlier acts still available in fiscal year 2026, or from fee accounts, may be used to reduce anticipated or planned vetting operations at existing locations unless a statute enacted after this one specifically allows it. Subsection (a) separately provides that funds in this Act may be used to alter operations within the National Targeting Center.
What the document actually says“None of the funds provided by this Act, provided by previous appropriations Acts that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by the collection of fees available to the components funded by this Act, may be used to reduce anticipated or planned vetting operations at existing locations”
This money may not be used to cut back checks at places that already do them. That holds for old money and fee money too.
Vetting means checking people and cargo against records. Congress would have to pass a new law to allow a cut.
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