What is the U.S.A. FY25 and FY26 Border Patrol funding?

1. The Administration’s FY25 request: a $1.9 billion increase for CBP and ICE

The White House Office of Management and Budget fact sheet for the President’s FY2025 budget describes a combined $1.9 billion, or 7 percent, base‑budget increase for CBP and ICE intended to “secure our border” and combat fentanyl trafficking, signaling the Administration’s policy and funding priorities for CBP broadly rather than a single Border Patrol line item ^[1]. That figure is presented as an aggregate increase across CBP and ICE; the fact sheet does not provide in the excerpt a separate, explicit dollar allocation solely labeled “Border Patrol” ^[1].

2. Congressional action and priorities: sustaining staffing and walls

On the legislative side, the House Homeland Security Appropriations Committee’s FY25 bill materials and Republican releases emphasize sustaining funding to maintain 22,000 Border Patrol agents and prioritizing wall construction and enforcement programs—political choices that shape how appropriated funds are allocated within CBP ^{[2] [6]}. The House committee report accompanying the DHS appropriations bill provides detailed directions to agencies but the snippet here does not translate those directives into an enacted dollar figure specifically for the Border Patrol program ^[7].

3. Where the precise “Border Patrol” program dollars live in the budget documents

CBP publishes budget overviews and a Congressional Budget Justification that break down budget accounts and program-level funding; DHS hosts the FY2025 and FY2026 CBP justifications and related budget documents, which are the primary sources to extract the exact Border Patrol program amounts ^{[3] [4] [5]}. The existence of a FY26 CBP congressional budget justification indicates the FY26 request and program-level numbers are documented there, but the provided snippet does not include the numeric totals for the Border Patrol program itself ^[4].

4. Stakeholders and interpretations: unions, watchdogs, and think tanks

Union and advocacy summaries—such as National Treasury Employees Union commentary on CBP FY26 materials—add context on workforce and resource requests, and advocacy groups produce fact sheets on enforcement costs, but the provided NTEU and advocacy snippets do not supply an independent enacted number for the Border Patrol program ^{[8] [9]}. These stakeholders frame funding priorities differently: unions emphasize staffing and operational needs, while some Members of Congress emphasize border infrastructure and deterrence ^{[2] [8]}.

5. The reporting limitation and where to find enacted figures

Publicly available authoritative sources for exact enacted Border Patrol program funding by fiscal year are CBP’s budget documents and DHS’s Congressional Budget Justifications and the enacted appropriations language and explanatory statements from Congress; the referenced DHS CBP FY25 and FY26 documents and the DHS FY25 Congressional Budget Justification are the precise places to find FY25 and FY26 program dollar amounts, though the snippets here do not include those line‑items ^{[3] [4] [5]}. USAspending and the enacted appropriations report language from Congress (House report H. Rept. 118‑553) are also places to confirm enacted totals and account transfers ^{[10] [7]}.

Conclusion: what can be stated with confidence

It is certain from the cited sources that the President’s FY25 proposal included a $1.9 billion (7 percent) base increase across CBP and ICE and that House appropriators for FY25 prioritized sustaining 22,000 Border Patrol agents; however, the specific enacted and requested Border Patrol program dollar totals for FY25 and FY26 are present in DHS/CBP budget justifications and congressional appropriations documents referenced here but are not quoted in the provided snippets, so exact figures cannot be reported from these excerpts alone ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}.