State Accountability for Federal Deployment Costs Act of 2025
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Latest Action · July 17, 2025
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, 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.
This bill requires states to reimburse the federal government for the costs of deploying military forces—including the National Guard and active-duty troops—when those deployments occur in response to civil unrest caused by a state's failure to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement operations. The legislation defines reimbursable costs as temporary duty expenses, housing, meals, transportation, and equipment for deployed military personnel. Before invoicing a state, the Department of Homeland Security and Attorney General must jointly determine that the state materially hindered or failed to support the federal immigration enforcement actions that prompted the military deployment. States have 180 days to pay invoices from the Department of Defense, and if a state fails to pay, the President may withhold discretionary federal grants to that state as an offset.
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