ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: HS Today
09February2011 6:32pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The House Appropriations Committee will convene Tuesday to consider budget allocations for a fiscal 2011 continuing resolution bill, which could fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with $42.5 billion in discretionary spending for this year.
Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), chair of the Appropriations Committee, unveiled spending limits for the federal government in a report on Feb. 3. The budget cuts contained in the report, Revised Suballocation of Budget Allocations for Fiscal Year 2011, would trim the entire White House budget request for the year -- submitted to Congress more than one year ago -- by $74 billion.
The proposal would cut about $1.2 billion from the fiscal 2011 DHS budget requested by President Barack Obama in February 2010. Under the plan, DHS would receive about $17 million less than allocated to it in fiscal 2010.
The budget allocation to be considered by the Appropriations Committee would fulfill a Republican promise "to meet our commitment outlined in the Pledge to America to reduce non-security discretionary spending to the pre-stimulus and pre-bailout non-security funding levels of 2008," Rogers said in a statement Feb. 3.
The Republicans opted to preserve security funding in their pledge. A blueprint released by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chair of the House Budget Committee, last week would hold total federal security spending to about $635 billion, up about $8 billion compared to fiscal 2010. Total security spending includes DHS, the Defense Department, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs. (read full report)
