
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…