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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Feb 27, 2025
End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act
This bill prohibits the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from carrying out the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) and rescinds unobligated funds transferred to FEMA for this purpose for FY2023-FY2024.
The SSP provides grants to public and nonprofit entities for temporarily providing shelter and other services (e.g., food, transportation) to noncitizen migrants released from Department of Homeland Security custody and awaiting immigration court proceedings, as well as for increasing grant recipients’ capacity to temporarily shelter such individuals (e.g., modifying existing facilities).
People & committees
Rep. Cloud, Michael [R-TX-27] · R–TX
Legislative record
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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PlainBill explanation
Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-27 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This bill would bar the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from supporting sheltering and related work by organizations outside the federal government when that work helps relieve overcrowding in Customs and Border Protection’s short-term holding facilities. It would also cancel specified funds previously transferred to FEMA that have not yet been committed to spending.
The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may not carry out any program to support sheltering and related activities provided by non-Federal entities, including facility improvements and construction, in support of relieving overcrowding in short-term holding facilities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The unobligated balances of the following amounts are rescinded:
Section 1 names the proposal the “End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act.”
This Act may be cited as the End FEMA Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Act.
The prohibition would apply to FEMA’s Administrator and cover any program serving the stated sheltering and overcrowding-relief purpose, including facility improvements and construction. Its operative language defines the restriction by the program’s purpose; it does not establish an individual immigration-status eligibility test.
(a) Prohibition The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may not carry out any program to support sheltering and related activities provided by non-Federal entities, including facility improvements and construction, in support of relieving overcrowding in short-term holding facilities of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The bill would cancel the remaining uncommitted balances of specified transfers to FEMA under the 2023 and 2024 appropriations laws. Both references identify money under Customs and Border Protection’s “operations and support” heading. This cancellation is limited to unobligated balances, meaning funds not yet legally committed.
(b) Rescission The unobligated balances of the following amounts are rescinded:
(1) The amounts made available and transferred to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the matter under the heading operations and support under the heading U.S. Customs and Border Protection under the heading security, enforcement, and investigations in title II of division F of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (Public Law 117–328; 136 Stat. 4730).
(2) The amounts made available and transferred to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the matter under the heading operations and support under the heading U.S. Customs and Border Protection under the heading security, enforcement, and investigations in title II of division C of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47; 138 Stat. 598).
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated January 8, 2026, records introduction in the House on February 27, 2025. It also records referrals that day to the Appropriations, Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure committees and to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Source snapshot updated 2026-01-08T15:56:21Z.
2025-02-27: Introduced in House
2025-02-27: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2025-02-27: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
A closer look
Reviewed version: Introduced in House · 2025-02-27. These findings describe provisions and who may benefit; they are not judgments of waste, corruption, or motive.
This review covers the supplied bill text. “None identified” does not rule out provisions in later versions or accompanying reports and disclosures.
Provisions outside the bill’s main subject, or policy changes attached to appropriations.
None identified in the reviewed text
No unrelated provision or rider was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version and does not establish the contents or attachment history of other versions or accompanying materials.
Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
None identified in the reviewed text
No congressionally directed spending for particular recipients or places was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion is limited to that version; earmark disclosures and accompanying committee materials were not supplied.
Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
None identified in the reviewed text
No materially narrow benefit, preferential exemption, or special carve-out was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion applies only to that version, not other versions or accompanying materials.
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