Homeland Security Department: FY2006 Appropriations

Publication Date: June 2005

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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This report describes the FY2006 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The report includes tables that compare the FY2005 appropriations for the programs and activities of DHS, and the President's FY2006 request.

The President's budget request for FY2006 was submitted to Congress on February 7, 2005. The Administration requested $41.1 billion in gross budget authority for FY2006 (including mandatory expenditures, fees, and special funds). The Administration is requesting a net appropriation of $30.6 billion in net budget authority for FY2006, of which $29.6 billion is discretionary budget authority, and $1 billion is mandatory budget authority. On May 10, 2005, the full House Appropriations Committee reported its bill (H.R. 2360) and report (H.Rept. 109-79) containing the FY2006 appropriations for DHS. H.R. 2360 passed the House on May 17, 2005, providing a net appropriation of $31.9 billion for DHS. This amount includes $30.8 billion in discretionary budget authority, which represents an increase of $1.3 billion or 4% compared to the FY2005 enacted level; and an increase of $1.2 billion or nearly 4% compared to the FY2006 request.

The President's request for appropriations includes the following break out of net budget authority for the four Titles of the DHS appropriation bill: (I) Departmental Management and Operations, $748 million; (II) Security, Enforcement and Investigations, $20,566 million; (III) Preparedness and Response, $6,710 million; and (IV) Research and Development, Training, Assessments, and Services, $2,546 million. The introduced version of H.R. 2360 would provide the following amounts for each title: (I) $685 million; (II) $21,990 million; (III) $6,612 million; (IV) $2,580 million.

The requested net appropriation, and amounts in House-passed H.R. 2360 (in parentheses) for major components of the department include the following: $5,575 ($5,785) million for Customs and Border Protection (CBP); $3,648 ($3,830) million for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); $1,641 ($3,263) million for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA); $7,962 ($7,458) million for the U.S. Coast Guard; $1,204 ($1,232) million for the Secret Service; $3,565 ($3,665) million for the Office of State and Local Government Preparedness (SLGCP); $3,135 ($3,013) million for the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate (EPR); $80 ($120) million for Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); $873 ($853) million for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (IAIP); and $1,368 ($1,290) million for the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).

This report will be updated as events warrant.