Congress Is About to Vote on $140 Billion for ICE. Nobody Knows Where the Last $100 Billion Went.

DHS stopped reporting spending data when the shutdown began. Now Republicans are moving to appropriate more — without a public accounting of what's already been spent.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are preparing to vote on a budget resolution that would hand ICE and Border Patrol up to $140 billion in new funding. There’s one problem with that plan: the two agencies are still sitting on more than $100 billion Congress gave them less than a year ago, and the Trump administration has gone dark on how it’s being spent.

That’s the double-barreled finding contained in a new Senate Budget Committee analysis and an independent review of federal spending data published by budget analyst Kevin McNellis — a combination that raises urgent questions about fiscal oversight at the very moment Republicans are moving to dramatically expand the enforcement apparatus.

According to the Senate Budget Committee, Office of Management and Budget data shows that as of the end of March, ICE had not obligated $63.2 billion of the $74.9 billion it received under last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. CBP had not obligated $40 billion of its $64.7 billion allocation. Combined: $103 billion in unobligated funds — and counting.