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1 Sections 534 and 535 of H.R. 3931, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 1 (September 10, 2019)

handle is hein.congrec/cbodhsyap0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Phillip L. Swagel, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 September 10, 2019 Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Re: Sections 534 and 535 of H.R. 3931, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 Dear Madam Speaker: As you requested, CBO is providing information about its analysis of the immigration provisions in sections 534 and 535 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020, as reported by the House Committee on Appropriations on July 24, 2019. Sections 534 and 535 would prevent the Administration from using funds made available by that act or any other act to implement several immigration-related policies. Among the policies that would be suspended by the bill is the rule entitled Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds.1 That rule was finalized on August 14, 2019. In July, when the rule was still in the proposed-rulemaking stage, CBO estimated that enacting sections 534 and 535 would increase direct spending by $3.1 billion in fiscal year 2020 and by $3.7 billion over the 2020-2029 period. (CBO also estimated those sections would reduce revenue by $17 million over the 2020-2029 period.) About 80 percent of that estimated increase in direct spending would result from suspending implementation of the public-charge rule and would arise primarily from an expected increase in the use of federal benefits by people who live in households with foreign-born people. Under the public-charge rule, CBO expects a number of people who are eligible for federal benefits will choose not to use those benefits because of concern about whether benefit use would affect their immigration status or that of a family member. Thus, 1. Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds, 84 Fed. Reg. 41292 (August 14, 2019), https://www.govinfo.gov/contett/pkg/R-2019-08-14/pdfi/2019-17142.pdf.

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