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House Appropriations Panel Recommends $888 Million Boost To DHS Budget

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

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House Appropriations Panel Recommends $888 Million Boost To DHS Budget

Bollinger Shipyards delivered the Coast Guard Fast Response Cutter Kathleen Moore in March. Photo: Coast Guard

The House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee (HAC HS) on Wednesday evening began marking up its version of the FY ’15 Homeland Security Bill, which provides $39.2 billion in discretionary funding, an $887.8 million increase to the Obama administration’s request. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a big winner in the subcommittee’s version of the bill, receiving $5.5 billion, a $466.2 million plus-up to the request with some of the increase going toward domestic and international investigation programs, and detention-related programs.…

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