A long report goes with this law. It was printed in the record of the House on or about January 22, 2026. This part says the report counts, and guides how the money is split up. But two headings in the report are cut out, and their amounts are set at zero.
The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the House section of the Congressional Record on or about January 22, 2026, and submitted by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations of the House, shall have the same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference”
The opening of section 4. It identifies the explanatory statement by where it was printed, the House section of the Congressional Record on or about January 22, 2026, and by who submitted it, the chair of the House Committee on Appropriations. It then gives that statement the same effect on the allocation of funds and the implementation of the Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.
What the document actually says
“The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the House section of the Congressional Record on or about January 22, 2026, and submitted by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations of the House, shall have the same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference”
That sentence, in plain words
A report about this law was printed in the record of the House. The chair of a House money committee turned it in. It counts as much as a joint report would.
What this is about
When the two chambers work out a bill together, they print a joint report. There was no such report here. This makes the House report do the same job. Many money lines in this law point to tables in that report.
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The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“except that the contents printed under the headings ``U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement'' and ``Border Security Operations'' under the heading ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection'' shall have no force or effect for purposes of this Act”
The exception in the middle of section 4. Everything printed in the explanatory statement under the heading U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and everything printed under the sub-heading Border Security Operations within the heading U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is given no force or effect for purposes of the Act. The rest of the statement keeps the effect the first part of the section gives it.
What the document actually says
“except that the contents printed under the headings ``U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement'' and ``Border Security Operations'' under the heading ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection'' shall have no force or effect for purposes of this Act”
That sentence, in plain words
Two parts of the report do not count. One is the part about ICE. One is the part about border security work at the border agency.
What this is about
The rest of the report still counts. These two parts do not. So the words printed under those two headings do not steer this law.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“amounts specified in the ``Final Bill'' column under the sub-heading ``Border Security Operations'' under the heading ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection'' and under the heading ``U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement'' in the ``Department of Homeland Security Act, 2026'' table shall all be $0.”
The close of section 4. In the table the section names, the figures in the Final Bill column under the Border Security Operations sub-heading of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement heading, are all set at $0. Division A of the Act carries no account paragraph appropriating money to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and section 549 separately bars transfers to Customs and Border Protection for Border Security Operations.
What the document actually says
“amounts specified in the ``Final Bill'' column under the sub-heading ``Border Security Operations'' under the heading ``U.S. Customs and Border Protection'' and under the heading ``U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement'' in the ``Department of Homeland Security Act, 2026'' table shall all be $0.”
That sentence, in plain words
A table in the report lists money for two headings. Those numbers are all set to zero. One heading is ICE. One is border security work.
What this is about
The table in the report normally sets the amounts. Here the law writes zero into two of its lines. Division A also has no money line of its own for ICE.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
The whole section, which is one sentence of 144 words. It is recorded in three parts: the effect given to the explanatory statement, the two headings excepted from that effect, and the amounts set at $0.
What the explanatory statement itself says. It is a separate document printed in the Congressional Record, it is not indexed here, and the tables the Act's own account paragraphs point into live in it rather than in the Act.
Because the tables of specific amounts sit in the explanatory statement and not in the Act, a reader who follows an account paragraph to a named table will not find the table in the text indexed on this site. The Act gives the date of the statement as on or about January 22, 2026, so the Act itself does not fix the date exactly. The table this section sets to $0 is named here as the ``Department of Homeland Security Act, 2026'' table, while the account paragraphs in section 5 name a ``Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026'' table; the site records both as printed and does not resolve which the drafter meant.
