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Senate Appropriations Panel Trims $1 Billion From DHS FY ’16 Request

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 16th, 2015

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Senate Appropriations Panel Trims $1 Billion From DHS FY ’16 Request

A Senate panel on Tuesday approved a $40.2 billion net discretionary appropriations budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in FY ’16, $1.2 billion less than requested to meet budget resolution targets set forth by Republicans earlier this year.The bill marked up by the Senate Appropriations Homeland Security (SAC HS) Subcommittee is $543 million more than Congress enacted in FY ’15. The full committee will mark up the bill beginning Thursday morning.Rep. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), chairman of the subcommittee,…

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Pentagon

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