
A House Appropriations panel on Thursday approved a $62.8 billion funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that provides $2.1 billion to restart the building of a security wall along the U.S. southwest border and fully funds the Coast Guard’s request to acquire a commercial polar icebreaker. The proposed fiscal year 2024 funding by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security is $2.4 billion more than requested by the Biden administration and $2.1 billion more than Congress provided in…