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Scott Defends the CBP Budget Before House Appropriations

April 16, 2026 · Forbes Breaking News · 1:51:00

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What happened

The House Appropriations Subcommittee held its budget hearing on the Department of Homeland Security — covering CBP, ICE, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — on Thursday, April 16, 2026, with witnesses including Rodney Scott, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Todd Lyons, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Forbes Breaking News, whose full carry of the hearing is embedded above, and the CNBC hearing description. In his opening remarks, as the Forbes excerpt of the hearing records, Scott told the subcommittee that CBP had been shut down more than it had been open during the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, calling the situation bewildering as he presented the administration’s budget request and priorities.

Why it matters

The Appropriations hearing is where Scott’s border claims meet the funding record: the fiscal year 2027 request for the nation’s largest federal law enforcement agency, defended by its Commissioner in the middle of a department shutdown fight — the budget half of the oversight record this site tracks.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the CBP fiscal year 2027 budget request and Commissioner Scott’s shutdown remarks, as stated at the April 16, 2026 House Appropriations hearing, to be checked against the appropriations outcome.

Sources: Forbes Breaking News, “FULL HEARING: CBP’s Rodney Scott & ICE’s Todd Lyons Testify Before House Appropriations Committee” (published April 16, 2026, embedded above); CNBC Television hearing description (April 16, 2026). Witnesses and subject as described by Forbes and CNBC.