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The House passed a roughly $1.25 trillion spending package in a pair of votes that overcame internal GOP divisions and Democratic protests over the Trump administration's immigration policies. H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026, passed with a vote of 341 to 88, funding the Departments of Defense, Transportation, HUD, HHS, Labor, Education, and other related agencies. H.R. 7147, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2026, narrowly passed 220 to 207, with seven Democrats joining almost all Republicans and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie as the lone GOP dissenter.
The most closely watched bill was the Homeland Security measure, which faced significant opposition due to controversy over ICE enforcement tactics following the January 7 killing of legal observer Renee Good in Minneapolis. With the passage of this final package, the House completed all twelve appropriations measures for Fiscal Year 2026, though the Senate would later modify the package by stripping out the full-year DHS funding and replacing it with a two-week continuing resolution to allow time for negotiations on immigration enforcement reforms.
The split votes reveal institutional tensions between executive authority over immigration enforcement and congressional oversight responsibilities, with Democrats seeking to impose legislative constraints on DHS operations while Republicans prioritized border security funding without restrictions.