The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) plans to weigh a spending plan today that would cut the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) budget request, for items including Coast Guard ships, less than the House has proposed. The Senate Appropriations Homeland Security subcommittee (SAC-HS) approved yesterday a fiscal year 2012 appropriations bill for DHS that would set agency funding at $41 billion, which it interprets as $2.6 billion below President Barack Obama’s request and $408 million more than the bill the Republican-controlled…
Senate Panel Wants To Reverse Some House Cuts To DHS
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