📊House demands briefing on $170 billion deportation funds

On August 11, 2025, AP News reported that House Homeland Security Committee Republicans Andrew Garbarino and Michael Guest sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security leadership requesting a detailed briefing on how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s nearly $170 billion in immigration enforcement funding will be spent. The law allocates about $45 billion for new detention centers, roughly $30 billion for ICE staffing, $46 billion over four years for border wall construction, and $10 billion for DHS leadership—almost doubling DHS’s typical annual budget (apnews.com). Committee members warned that the administration has already diverted over $1 billion from FEMA and other programs to cover enforcement costs without clear congressional oversight (apnews.com), even as border apprehensions sit at historic lows (apnews.com).