Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act of 2025
Latest action · Mar 6, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 6, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act of 2025
This bill provides FY2025 appropriations for the salaries and expenses of certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees who are required to work during a lapse in appropriations (i.e., government shutdown) in FY2025.
Specifically, the bill provides appropriations to CBP for the salaries and expenses of agents of the U.S. Border Patrol and officers of the Office of Field Operations who are excepted from furlough (i.e., required to work) during a lapse in discretionary appropriations in FY2025.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 6, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025; 16 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TX | Brandon Gill | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-TX | Dan Crenshaw | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-WA | Dan Newhouse | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-TX | John R. Carter | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-AZ | Juan Ciscomani | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-TX | Lance Gooden | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| D-WA | Marie Gluesenkamp Perez | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-MS | Michael Guest | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-TX | Morgan Luttrell | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-SC | Nancy Mace | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-NY | Nicole Malliotakis | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-PA | Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-FL | Scott Franklin | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-NJ | Thomas H. Kean, Jr. | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-TX | Tony Gonzales | Original | Mar 6, 2025 |
| R-TX | Brian Babin | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-UT | Celeste Maloy | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| R-WI | Derrick Van Orden | Mar 14, 2025 | |
| R-NY | Elise M. Stefanik | Apr 8, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Appropriations Committee | Referred Mar 6, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 6, 2025Introduced in House
- Mar 6, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 43, March 6, 2025, page H1039.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- Making appropriations for the salaries and expenses of certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees working during a Government shutdown in fiscal year 2025, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Pay Our Border Patrol and Customs Agents Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 6, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
