(G) deboosting speakers or content; 
(H) promoting or demoting content; 
(I) placing warning labels or explanatory 
notes on content; 
(J) suppressing content in other users’ 
feeds; 
(K) promoting negative comments on 
disfavored content; 
(L) requiring additional click-through(s) to 
access content; or 
(M) any other such methods. 
SEC. 541. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available 
to require an employee of the Department of Homeland 
Security to receive a vaccination against COVID-19. 
SEC. 542. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available 
to administer, implement, or enforce the rules entitled 
‘‘Amended Order Implementing Presidential Proclamation 
on Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel Dur-
ing the COVID–19 Pandemic’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 20405 et 
seq.) or ‘‘Notification of Temporary Travel Restrictions 
Applicable to Land Ports of Entry and Ferries Service Be-
tween the United States and Mexico’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 
24041) (or any successor rules).
SEC. 543. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act may be made available 
to: 
(1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 
communications by a United States person as mis- 
, dis-, or mal-information; or 
(2) partner with or fund nonprofit or other or-
ganizations that in any way instruct, influence, di-
rect, or recommend that private companies in any 
way censor, prohibit, or obstruct lawful and constitu-
tionally protected speech of United States persons 
on social media platforms, including by— 
(A) terminating speakers’ accounts; 
(B) temporarily suspending accounts; 
(C) imposing warnings or strikes against 
accounts to stop future speech; 
(D) ‘‘shadowbanning’’ speakers; 
(E) demonetizing content or speakers; 
(F) adjusting algorithms to suppress or de-
emphasize speakers or messages; 
(G) deboosting speakers or content; 
(H) promoting or demoting content; 
(I) placing warning labels or explanatory 
notes on content;
(J) suppressing content in other users’ 
feeds; 
(K) promoting negative comments on 
disfavored content; 
(L) requiring additional click-through(s) to 
access content; or 
(M) any other such methods. 
(b) Any officer or employee of the Federal Govern-
ment whose salary is funded by this Act and who conducts 
any activity described in subsections (a)(1) or (a)(2) shall 
be removed from the Federal service. 
SEC. 544. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available 
to implement, administer, or enforce the rule related to 
‘‘Circumvention of Lawful Pathways’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 
11704). 
SEC. 545. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available 
to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out the 
Equity Action Plan of the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity, or Executive Order No. 13985 of January 20, 2021 
(86 Fed. Reg. 7009, relating to advancing racial equity 
and support for under-served communities through the 
federal government), Executive Order No. 14035 of June 
25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diversity, eq-
uity, inclusion, and accessibility in the federal workforce), 
Executive Order No. 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 
Fed. Reg. 10825 relating to further advancing racial eq-
uity and support for underserved communities through the 
federal government) or any program, project, or activity 
that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory or any 
concept associated with Critical Race Theory. 
SEC. 546. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Office 
of the Secretary and Executive Management—Operations 
and Support’’ may be made available for the purpose of 
paying counsel outside the Federal Government— 
(1) before the date on which all funds provided 
in section 211(a)(1) of this Act are obligated; and 
(2) to prepare for or defend against impeach-
ment. 
SEC. 547. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act may be made available 
to be used to purchase, maintain, or continue to operate 
any Unmanned Aircraft Systems that are manufactured 
in the People’s Republic of China or a country identified 
as a foreign adversary in the Annual Threat Assessment 
of the U.S. Intelligence Community or by an entity domi-
ciled in the People’s Republic of China or a country identi-
fied as a foreign adversary in the most recent Annual 
Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds for counterintelligence, research and development, 
test and evaluation, or counter Unmanned Aircraft Sys-
tem mitigation efforts, including the activities of the Coast 
Guard authorized by section 8414 of Public Law 116–283 
(14 U.S.C. 1156 note). 
SEC. 548. (a) Section 538 of the Department of 
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2022 (division F 
of Public Law 117–103) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘may’’ and in-
serting ‘‘shall’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(d) Amounts in the Fund may not be ob-
ligated until after the date on which the Act 
making full-year appropriations for the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security for the applicable 
fiscal year is enacted into law, subject to sub-
section (e). 
‘‘(e) The Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate 
shall be notified at least 15 days in advance of 
the planned use of funds.’’.
(b) The amendments made by this section shall apply 
to amounts transferred under such section 538 on or after 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 549. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act or any other Act shall 
be used to execute an inspection of any detention facility 
that is in a contractual agreement with U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement for the provision of detention 
services within six months of a previous inspection of such 
facility. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to in-
spections executed by the Office of Inspector General. 
SEC. 550. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act or any other Act shall 
be used to execute an inspection of any detention facility 
that is in a contractual agreement with U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement for the provision of detention 
services, except solely for compliance with the terms, con-
ditions, and standards found within the National Deten-
tion Standards 2019 for U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall take effect for detention fa-
cilities operating under existing contracts, as of the date 
of enactment of this Act, not later than 180 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act.
SEC. 551. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act shall be used to admit 
an alien, who is a national of the Republic of Chile, under 
section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1187), until the Secretary of Homeland Security 
verifies that the Republic of Chile provides access to ap-
propriate criminal databases and the Department of 
Homeland Security screens Chilean nationals against such 
criminal databases. 
SEC. 552. (a) In general.—Notwithstanding section 
7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of title 
28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 
none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro-
priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-
tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 
accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 
conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 
a union of one man and one woman. 
(b) Discriminatory action defined.—As used in sub-
section (a), a discriminatory action means any action 
taken by the Federal Government to— 
(1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 
of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-
sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-
tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 
in subsection (a); 
(2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-
poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 
such person; 
(3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 
exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 
deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-
operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-
cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 
other similar position or status from or to such per-
son; 
(4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-
erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 
benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 
admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 
degree from an educational program, from or to 
such person; or 
(5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-
erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-
ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-
stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 
and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-
paigns from or to such person.
(c) Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.—The 
Federal Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or 
certified for purposes of Federal law any person that 
would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respectively, for 
such purposes but for a determination against such person 
wholly or partially on the basis that the person speaks, 
or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief 
or moral conviction described in subsection (a). 
(RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 553. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, the following funds are here-
by rescinded from the following accounts and programs 
in the specified amounts: Provided, That no amounts may 
be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a con-
current resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 
(1) $800,000 from unobligated balances avail-
able in the ‘‘Office of the Secretary and Executive 
Management—Operations and Support’’ account (70 
23/24 0100). 
(2) $4,100,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘Management Directorate—Office of 
the Chief Information Officer and Operations’’ ac-
count (70 X 0113).
(3) $1,473,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion—Procurement, Construction, and Improve-
ments’’ account (70 X 0532). 
(4) $1,842,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion—Border Security Fencing, Infrastructure, and 
Technology’’ account (70 X 0533). 
(5) $452,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion—Air and Marine Interdiction, Operations, 
Maintenance, and Procurement’’ account (70 X 
0544). 
(6) $1,159,000,000 from the unobligated bal-
ances available under the heading ‘‘U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, 
and Improvements’’ of the amounts provided by 
Public Law 116–93 for the construction of barrier 
system along the southwest border. 
(7) $945,000,000 from the unobligated bal-
ances available under the heading ‘‘U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, 
and Improvements’’ of the amounts provided by 
Public Law 116–260 for the construction of barrier 
system along the southwest border.
(8) $3,000,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement—Operations and Support’’ account (70 
23/24 0540). 
(9) $2,092,841 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement—Operations and Support’’ account (70 X 
0540). 
(10) $10,439 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement—Automation Modernization’’ account (70 
X 0543). 
(11) $154,515,000 from the unobligated bal-
ances available under the heading ‘‘Transportation 
Security Administration—Operations and Support’’ 
of the amounts provided by Public Law 117–328. 
(12) $22,600,000 from the unobligated bal-
ances available in the ‘‘Coast Guard—Acquisition, 
Construction, and Improvements’’ account (70 X 
0613). 
(13) $3,500,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 
Security Agency—Procurement, Construction, and 
Improvements’’ account (70 23/27 0412).