Terrorism Funding: FY2002 Appropriations Bills

Publication Date: October 2001

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Military and defense

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Much of the enormous economic costs of the September 11 terrorist attacks will be addressed in the regular 13 FY2002 appropriations bills, plus allocations of the $40 billion emergency supplemental spending measure signed into law on September 18 (P.L. 107-38). Using baseline data provided by the Office of Management and Budget, this report organizes and tracks U.S. spending to combat terrorism across the 13 appropriation bills, including amounts allocated from the $40 billion emergency supplemental. Each of the FY2002 spending measures includes money for terrorism related activities, although the amount varies widely among the 13 bills. Over 80% of the estimated $11 billion requested for FY2002 to combat terrorism falls in two appropriation measures: the Defense Department appropriation and the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies appropriation.

Initial allocations - totaling $8.8 billion to date - from the emergency supplemental appropriation have also augmented programs aimed at recovering from and responding to the terrorist attacks falling under the jurisdiction of each of the 13 appropriation measures. Activities funded in the Defense and Military Construction spending measures have received 62% of the allocations, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), funded in the Veterans/HUD appropriation bill, received 23%. Table 1 provides a summary for each bill and a total for all 13. Tables 2 through 13 present separate pages for each appropriation measure, listing in most cases spending at the account level.

There are significant limitations in identifying precise amounts included in appropriation bill accounts for terrorism-related activities. Some result from the way in which OMB organizes its data around categories that do not necessarily correspond to appropriation accounts. In many cases, terrorism-related resources are co-mingled in a "host" account with other funds with no precise designation of amounts to combat terrorism. OMB data for defense and military construction appropriations are not disaggregated and are provided in only very broad categories. Nevertheless, data presented in this report indicate where funds are concentrated and highlight new spending initiatives that have emerged since September 11.