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Homeland Security

House Passes DHS Funding Bill

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, September 29th, 2023

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House Passes DHS Funding Bill

Construction of steel bollards along a portion of the southern border during the Trump administration. Photo: CBP

The House last Thursday night approved a funding bill that provides $62.8 billion in discretionary appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, including $2.1 billion toward physical barriers along the southwest border that is not in the DHS bill agreed to by Senate appropriators earlier this year. The Senate appropriators proposed $61.4 billion in discretionary spending for DHS in fiscal year 2024, which began Sunday, Oct. 1. As of our press time last Friday evening, the federal government was careening…

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