The Coast Guard budget request comes in at $13.1 billion, slightly more than the $13 billion enacted in fiscal year 2021. In fiscal year 2020, the service saw nearly $12.2 billion in funding. Keep Reading
Request includes $131 million "to support diverse, innovative, and community-driven methods to prevent domestic terrorism while respecting civil rights and liberties," and supporting "critical research on the root causes of radicalization and enhanced community outreach." Keep Reading
The Biden administration is taking the first step in its multi-year plan to help the IRS dig out from a decade of budget and workforce cuts, starting with plans to significantly increase its IT modernization spending. Keep Reading
Immigration increases include USCIS funding and Office of Professional Responsibility to process CBP, ICE complaints. Keep Reading
For the third year in a row, Congress isn’t buying the White House’s request nor Democrat lawmakers’ pleas for more money to help agencies move away from legacy systems more quickly. Keep Reading
The Department of Defense (DOD) continues to face financial management issues and challenges that have prevented it from obtaining a clean audit opinion on the fair presentation of its financial statements. Keep Reading
DHS compares cost per flight for CBP and Coast Guard air operations, but does not conduct cost-per-float assessments on marine operations. Keep Reading
USCIS was hoping to get $1.2 billion in a coronavirus aid package, but lawmakers have left for recess without a deal. Keep Reading
"We hope that this delay will allow enough time for Congress to provide the funding that USCIS needs to cancel the administrative furlough altogether," Edlow said, promising further guidance on what to expect in the coming days. Keep Reading
The committee's blueprint, which passed on a party-line vote Wednesday, provides $260 million for four Fast Response Cutters, $240 million above the request to finish the program. Keep Reading
USCIS announced that it would run short of funds and will begin furloughing more than 13,400 employees in August should Congress fail to appropriate emergency funding. Keep Reading
Even though DHS and OMB have sent letters supporting congressional appropriation of emergency funds, Congress had still not yet received a formal request for the money from the Trump administration. Keep Reading
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is now eyeing August as a possible furlough date for several thousand of its employees — unless Congress steps in with emergency supplemental funding before then. Keep Reading
Certain USCIS field offices and asylum offices were reopening today for non-emergency face-to-face services, and revenue has taken a deep hit from coronavirus closures. Keep Reading
Each year, GAO identifies and reports on federal agency programs with fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative goals or activities and ways to reduce costs or enhance revenue. Keep Reading
Acting secretary said "whole of government approach" is being used and DHS would "adjust our operations accordingly." Keep Reading
“It’s a delicate balance that the commandant has to do every week and every month,” Wolf said, adding that “the Coast Guard is happy to provide support to DoD and serve along them in the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, and elsewhere.” Keep Reading
Acting secretary said DHS is working with the city of Laredo, which sits on the Mexican border, "on perhaps some alternative designs that meets their needs as well as ours." Keep Reading
The White House diverted $3.8 billion in funds from the Defense Department’s 2020 budget, and has signaled it is considering moving as much as $7.2 billion. Keep Reading
The Urban Areas Security Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program would take cuts of approximately 36 percent and 41 percent, respectively. Keep Reading