The Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Committee set $1.81 b...
The Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Committee set $1.81 billion in funding for first responders, including emergency communications. The move restores money President Bush cut in his FY 2008 budget request, the committee said, and also seeks $644 million over…
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FY 2007 for state and local first responder grants. A committee statement scolded the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) for “attempting to justify” cuts by arguing that the $1 billion interoperability grant program sufficed. “The $1 billion mandatory grant program was enacted to supplement efforts to improve communications interoperability at the state and local level, not to supplant existing programs,” the committee said. Overall the bill would boost DHS funding 8%. Subcommittee Chmn. Byrd (D- W.Va.) said the President’s request claimed to offer an 8% increase but actually was up only 1.7% over last year. “The federal government has tried to fund homeland security on the cheap,” Byrd said: “That shoestring security leaves our nation vulnerable.”