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Johnson Warns House Republicans Against Short-Term Funding Measure For DHS

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

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Johnson Warns House Republicans Against Short-Term Funding Measure For DHS

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Photo: DHS

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a House panel on Tuesday that Congress needs to approve his department’s fiscal appropriations request for FY ’15 or risk jeopardizing homeland security. “Let me say this,” Johnson told the House Homeland Security Committee. “I know that there are some contemplating some form of short-term CR (continuing resolution) for the Department of Homeland Security to get us to March [2015]. That is, in my judgment, a very bad idea for homeland security because during…

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