Customs and Border Protection's money, traced to the source.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security
CBP is the largest law-enforcement component of the Department of Homeland Security by funding. Its budget is read here at the appropriation level from the DHS FY2027 Budget-in-Brief — FY2025, the FY2026 annualized continuing resolution, and the FY2027 request. Operations & Support and the border-security capital line are surfaced distinctly. The net discretionary base is the headline; the mandatory and fee accounts, and the separate reconciliation border supplemental, are kept strictly out of it.
+ Mandatory / fee accounts
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separate — not in the discretionary headline
FY2027 total budget authority
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gross discretionary + mandatory/fees
FY27 request vs. FY26 CR
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net discretionary
CBP discretionary appropriations — FY2027 request
$ in thousands · net discretionaryOperations & Support funds the workforce and frontline operations; Procurement, Construction & Improvements is the border-security capital line — barrier, technology, and air-and-marine assets. The two fee-supported lines (COBRA FTA, User Fee Facilities) round out net discretionary.
What is — and isn't — in the headline
The FY2027 net discretionary base is what the headline carries. Two things are deliberately kept out of it: the mandatory and fee-funded accounts (Customs user fees, agricultural inspection fees, ESTA, and others), reported as a separate frame; and the historic border funding from the reconciliation act (the Working Families Tax Cut Act), which the Budget-in-Brief describes as combined with — but not part of — the CBP discretionary request. Neither is folded into any discretionary number on this monitor.