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US HR7372

US HR7372
Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act


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Introduced
02/15/2024
In Committee
02/15/2024
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
01/03/2025

Introduced Session

118th Congress

Bill Summary

A BILL Making emergency supplemental appropriations to provide defense support to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend the entry of inadmissible aliens, and for other purposes.

AI Summary

This bill makes emergency supplemental appropriations for defense support to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and includes provisions to suspend the entry of inadmissible aliens. * **Department of Defense - Military Personnel:** * Army: $207,158,000 * Marine Corps: $3,538,000 * Air Force: $23,302,000 * Space Force: $4,192,000 * Funding Source: General Fund * Purpose: To respond to the situation in Ukraine and for related expenses. * Availability: Until September 30, 2025. * **Department of Defense - Operation and Maintenance:** * Army: $4,887,581,000 * Navy: $1,534,163,000 (with $976,405,000 for Ukraine and $557,758,000 for submarine industrial base improvements) * Marine Corps: $69,045,000 * Air Force: $846,869,000 * Space Force: $8,443,000 * Defense-Wide: $34,230,780,000 (with specific allocations for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, including $13,772,460,000 for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative) * Funding Source: General Fund * Purpose: To respond to situations in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and for related expenses, including submarine industrial base improvements. * Availability: Until September 30, 2025. * **Department of Defense - Procurement:** * Missile Procurement, Army: $2,742,757,000 * Procurement of Ammunition, Army: $6,414,300,000 (with allocations for Israel and Ukraine) * Other Procurement, Army: $308,991,000 * Weapons Procurement, Navy: $706,976,000 * Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy: $2,155,000,000 (for submarine industrial base improvements, including Columbia and Virginia Class Submarines) * Other Procurement, Navy: $319,570,000 (with allocations for Ukraine and submarine industrial base improvements) * Procurement, Marine Corps: $212,443,000 * Missile Procurement, Air Force: $366,001,000 * Other Procurement, Air Force: $2,808,678,000 * Procurement, Defense-Wide: $5,246,780,000 (with significant allocations for Israel's Iron Dome, David's Sling, and Iron Beam defense systems, and for Ukraine) * Defense Production Act Purchases: $331,200,000 * Funding Source: General Fund * Purpose: To respond to situations in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and for related expenses, including defense systems for Israel and submarine industrial base improvements. * Availability: Until September 30, 2025. * **Department of Defense - Research, Development, Test and Evaluation:** * Army: $18,594,000 * Navy: $20,825,000 (with allocations for Ukraine and submarine industrial base improvements) * Air Force: $406,834,000 * Defense-Wide: $194,125,000 * Funding Source: General Fund * Purpose: To respond to the situation in Ukraine and for related expenses, including submarine industrial base improvements. * Availability: Until September 30, 2025. * **Other Department of Defense Programs:** * Office of the Inspector General: $8,000,000 for oversight of funds appropriated in this Act, including assistance to Ukraine. * Funding Source: General Fund * Availability: Until September 30, 2025. * **Intelligence Community Management Account:** $2,000,000 for the situation in Ukraine. * Funding Source: General Fund * Availability: Until September 30, 2025. * **General Provisions:** * Allows for transfers of funds within the Department of Defense for Ukraine ($1,000,000,000) and for the National Intelligence Program ($250,000,000). * Requires reports on accountability for U.S. defense articles provided to Ukraine and on security assistance to Ukraine. * Provides $2,440,000,000 for U.S. operations, force protection, deterrence, and replacement of combat expenditures in the U.S. Central Command region. * Provides $542,400,000 for unfunded priorities of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. * All defense-related appropriations are designated as emergency requirements. * **Border Security Provisions:** * Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to suspend the entry of inadmissible aliens at land or maritime borders if necessary for operational control. * Mandates the expulsion of inadmissible aliens arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border without further hearing or review, with exceptions for those facing persecution or torture, unless specific exceptions apply. * Specifies that aliens processed for expulsion will be detained pending expulsion and generally expelled to Mexico, with provisions for alternative countries if Mexico is unwilling or it's not in the national interest. * Prohibits the use of Federal funds to move aliens from their initial detention facility for purposes other than adjudicating their status. * These border authorities expire one year after enactment.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance

Sponsors (16)

Last Action

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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. (on 02/15/2024)

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