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DHS Seeks $47.5 Billion In FY ’19, Including Funding For New Polar Icebreaker

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, February 12th, 2018

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DHS Seeks $47.5 Billion In FY ’19, Including Funding For New Polar Icebreaker

Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star. The cutter was built by the former Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company and was commissioned in 1977. (Photo: Coast Guard)

The White House on Monday sent Congress a $47.5 billion discretionary budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in fiscal year 2019, a roughly 7 percent increase over what Congress appears to be leaning toward in the yet to be completed appropriations for fiscal year 2018.The Trump administration’s request for DHS also includes $750 million for the Coast Guard for detail design and construction of a new heavy polar icebreaker, which the service hopes to have delivered in…

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