WASHINGTON — Eleven months ago, the office of Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill. put out a line-by-line ledger of every Homeland Security dollar in the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act, the signature legislative achievement of Trump’s presidency.
On Tuesday, Underwood filed a bill to cancel most of the it.
H.R. 10974, the DHS Funding Accountability Act, was introduced Nov. 10. Its working text is one sentence. That sentence rescinds the unobligated balance of eight sections of Public Law 119-21, the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” and repeals those sections. Full text here:
As introduced, it lists no cosponsors yet but has been referred to the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Homeland Security committees.This is the first bill aimed straight at the money behind Trump’s deportation machine.