CBP's recent arc — authority, then obligations.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security

CBP is a component of the Department of Homeland Security, not a top-level agency, so OMB's Historical Tables carry the department's multi-decade arc — not the bureau's. Rather than synthesize a long CBP series no single published table prints, this page shows the two arcs the record does support: the net-discretionary appropriation trajectory from the DHS FY2027 Budget-in-Brief, and the live contract-obligations trend from USAspending.

FY2027 net discretionary

request · DHS Budget-in-Brief

FY2025 net discretionary

actual · start of the printed arc

Obligations trend

0 fiscal years · USAspending

Latest complete FY obligated

Net discretionary — the recent appropriation arc

$ in thousands · DHS FY2027 Budget-in-Brief
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Contract obligations — the execution trend

USAspending · CBP sub-agency · raw $
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Reading the arc

Authority and execution are two different measures, held apart on purpose. The appropriation arc is what the President's Budget requests and what Congress enacts; the obligations trend is what CBP has actually put on contract, reported by USAspending. They move together over time but they are not the same number in any given year — and neither is folded into the other. The appropriation arc here is deliberately short: it is the trajectory the FY2027 Budget-in-Brief prints, not a synthesized decades-long bureau series. Where a longer, department-level arc exists, it lives on the DHS history page.

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