The bill would appropriate money to various government agencies (primarily, but not exclusively) related to the United States Department of Homeland Security.

It makes appropriations for: (1) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including for border security fencing, infrastructure, and technology; (2) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including to reimburse other federal agencies for the costs associated with the care, maintenance, and repatriation of smuggled aliens unlawfully present in the United States, to identify and remove from the United States aliens convicted of a crime once they are judged deportable, and for detention and removal operations; (3) the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), including for aviation security (including explosives detection systems), surface transportation security, screening programs of the Office of Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing, transportation security support and intelligence, and the Federal Air Marshals; (4) the Coast Guard, including funding derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for prevention, removal, and enforcement related to oil discharges, funding for environmental compliance and restoration functions, and funding for the Coast Guard Reserve; and (5) the U.S. Secret Service.

It makes appropriations for FY2014 for: (1) United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), including for the E-Verify program; (2) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (3) the Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, including for construction of the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility; and (4) the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.

2217) was introduced on May 29, 2013, by the United States House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Rep. John Carter (R-TX).

[4] On June 5, 2013, the House resolved itself in the Committee of the Whole to debate the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2014 with Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) as the designated chairman.

The most important statement, however, is that "unless this bill passes the Congress in the context of an overall budget framework that supports our recovery and enables sufficient investments in education, infrastructure, innovation and national security for our economy to compete in the future, the President’s senior advisors would recommend that he veto H.R.

The President also threatened to veto the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 on the same day.

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