Secure the Border Act of 2023

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2, Secure the Border Act of 2023” on May 9, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As posted by the House Committee on Rules on May 5, 2023 at https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-2”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, May 9, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59151

  CBO publication date

  May 9, 2023

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 23, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f96ec31647a71c293f5402b92ffa367407907e4e3d8638d2d6bdb198b88361b7

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DIAZ-BALART, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 74, May 2, 2023, Page H2127):
  Article 1, section 8, clause 1; Article 1, section 8, clause 18. The single subject of this legislation is: To secure the borders of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 2, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  151 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 2, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/2

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  March 23, 2026

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  f96ec31647a71c293f5402b92ffa367407907e4e3d8638d2d6bdb198b88361b7

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of March 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 2, last updated March 23, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.