Northern Border Security and Staffing Reform Act
Sponsored By: Representative Stauber
Introduced
Summary
Northern border staffing and planning. This bill would require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to mount a targeted hiring surge at northern ports of entry and to adopt regular, data-driven threat analyses to confront looming retirements and staffing gaps.
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- Families and northern communities would get formal attention to housing shortfalls that impede recruitment and retention, because threat analyses must assess housing challenges and local recruiting plans.
- CBP officers and applicants would face planning for a large retirement wave. The bill cites a historical staffing gap of about 5,800 officers and a projected 400 percent retirement surge in 2028, and it would push CBP to develop mitigation plans and consider tools like direct hire authority, bonuses, additional pay, and student loan repayment.
- Agency planning would be more frequent and specific. The Northern Border Security Review would be updated not later than 180 days after enactment and every five years, and must compare current staffing to projected demand and include plans to address shortages and recruit locally.
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Five-year northern border staffing and hiring reviews
This bill would require Homeland Security and Border Protection to deliver a northern border threat report within 180 days of enactment, and then every five years. Each report would have to show current staffing, future demand, and plans to handle retirement surges. It would also review housing challenges, spell out local recruiting steps, and assess tools like direct-hire, hiring and retention bonuses, extra pay, and student loan repayment. The bill would define “local recruiting plans” as efforts to recruit, help, and mentor nearby candidates for CBP jobs. This sets a regular planning cycle but does not add new funding.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Stauber
MN • R
Cosponsors
Langworthy
NY • R
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Bergman
MI • R
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Tiffany
WI • R
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Tenney
NY • R
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Stefanik
NY • R
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Hinson
IA • R
Sponsored 6/10/2025
Finstad
MN • R
Sponsored 6/11/2025
Fulcher
ID • R
Sponsored 8/1/2025
Bresnahan
PA • R
Sponsored 8/1/2025
Malliotakis
NY • R
Sponsored 9/26/2025
Roll Call Votes
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