Homeland Security bureau needs extra $300 million to get through year

[The Straight Story]

Homeland Security bureau needs extra $300 million to get through year

By Chris Strohm
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The Homeland Security Department wants to redirect nearly $300 million to its Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau in order to address ongoing financial shortfalls for the remainder of fiscal 2005, a senior administration official said Thursday.

The department plans to submit a request to the Office of Management and Budget "within a week" asking that it give ICE more funds, said outgoing DHS Deputy Secretary James Loy.

The reprogramming request would be "somewhere around $280 million," Loy told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. ICE needed an additional $300 million last year in order to get through fiscal 2004.

ICE's financial problems have resulted in a hiring freeze for more than a year and severe spending restrictions. In September, the bureau ordered its offices to refrain from nonessential spending such as travel, temporary duty assignments, equipment and supply purchases and permanent change-of-station moves.

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[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Not surprised at all. No one really gives a shit about protecting

us here in the US. I work for a Government agency, who was told 3 years ago to beef up borders. They want to, but no one will give them any money to do it.

Odd isn't it. Could it almost be that they know nothing will happen?