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BILL SUMMARY: Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations Bill
Washington, D.C. - The Fiscal Year 2025 Homeland Security Appropriations Act provides $66.16 billion in total discretionary funding. “This bill tackles some of the most urgent challenges facing our country, while also delivering on important Connecticut priorities. It provides important resources to improve border security, help stop the flow of fentanyl and make our immigration system fairer and more efficient. At the same time, we’re restoring FEMA grant funding to help protect nonprofi… Continue Reading
03.23.24
Senate Approves Final FY24 Funding Package in Overwhelming 74-24 Vote
Funding legislation strengthens America’s national security and invests in the American people—lowering families’ child care costs, protecting workers’ pocketbooks, investing in people’s health, supporting students, and much more Rejects steep cuts and extreme Republican policy riders that would have set our country back decades ***WATCH: Senator Murray’s floor remarks after passage of the legislation*** Washington, D.C. - Today, the Senate voted 72-24 to send the final set of bic… Continue Reading
03.22.24
Senator Murray Remarks Urging Swift Senate Passage of Bipartisan Funding Package
House passed legislation in overwhelming bipartisan 286-134 ***WATCH: Senator Murray’s floor remarks*** ICYMI: Murray, Top Appropriators Release Second Funding Package - MORE HERE ICYMI: Former Preschool Teacher Patty Murray Delivers $1 Billion More to Help Families Find and Afford Child Care & Pre-K - MORE HERE Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, spoke on the Senate floor urging swift Senate passage o… Continue Reading
03.21.24
Murray, Top Appropriators Release Second Funding Package
Funding legislation strengthens America’s national security and invests in the American people—lowering families’ child care costs, protecting workers’ pocketbooks, investing in people’s health, supporting students, and much more Rejects steep cuts and extreme Republican riders that would have set our country back decades ICYMI: Former Preschool Teacher Patty Murray Delivers $1 Billion More to Help Families Find and Afford Child Care & Pre-K - MORE HERE Washington, D.C. - Toda… Continue Reading
03.21.24
BILL SUMMARY: Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Bill
Bill delivers new funding to stop the flow of fentanyl and transnational crime, resources to help meet operational needs at the border, and continued support for the refugee resettlement program Rejects extreme Republican riders ***Bill text, explanatory statement, & more available HERE*** Washington, D.C. - The Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Appropriations Act provides $61.8 billion in total discretionary funding. “This is a bipartisan compromise that will provide som… Continue Reading
07.27.23
Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Defense, Interior-Environment, LHHS, and Homeland Security Bills
Committee approves Defense bill in 27-1 vote Committee approves Interior-Environment bill in 28-0 vote Committee approves LHHS bill in 26-2 vote Committee approves Homeland Security bill in 24-4 vote Washington, D.C. – Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee met and approved the Fiscal Year 2024 Defense; Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies; Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; and Homeland Security appropr… Continue Reading
07.27.23
Chair Murray Remarks at Full Committee Markup of Defense, Interior-Environment, LHHS, and Homeland Security Bills
ICYMI: Summary of the Fiscal Year 2024 Defense Appropriations Bill – READ HERE ICYMI: Summary of the Fiscal Year 2024 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill – READ HERE ICYMI: Summary of the Fiscal Year 2024 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill – READ HERE ICYMI: Summary of the Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill – READ HERE Washington, D.… Continue Reading
07.27.23
BILL SUMMARY: Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Bill
Bill helps goods and people move through our ports and borders in an orderly and timely way, delivers new funding to stop the flow of fentanyl and transnational crime, and supports the refugee resettlement program Washington, D.C. – The Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Appropriations bill provides $61.3 billion in total discretionary funding. The bill provides new resources to stop the flow of fentanyl and strengthen efforts abroad to disrupt and dismantle trans… Continue Reading
03.29.23
At DHS Hearing, Senator Murray Discusses Importance of Investments to Keep Communities Safe and Strengthen Economy
ICYMI: Senator Murray Statement on the President's Budget Request - MORE HERE ***WATCH: Senator Murray's full remarks and questioning*** (Washington, D.C.) - Today, at a Senate Appropriations Homeland Security subcommittee hearing with Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the President's FY24 budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, emphasized the importance of-and her commitment to-working together t… Continue Reading
01.14.20
REAX of Vice Chairman Leahy To Reports That President Trump Will Divert An Additional $7.2 Billion For His Border Wall
[Monday night, the Washington Post reported that President Trump and his administration intend to confiscate $7.2 billion appropriated for military construction projects and counter-narcotics programs to build his ineffective wall along the Southern border. In fiscal year 2019, President Trump confiscated $6.3 billion from the military and military families to fund his vanity wall. For fiscal year 2020, the President requested $8.6 billion for his wall, and Congress specifically chose to provi… Continue Reading
09.26.19
Statement Of Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Amendment to Remove Transfer Authority for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations
My amendment is simple. It ensures that the Department of Homeland Security cannot use its general transfer authority to increase the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) budget above what Congress provides. For two years, the level of funding for ICE detention beds has been carefully negotiated. It is one of the most contentious issues we deal with in the DHS bill and is usually one of the last issues to be agreed upon. And for two years the Trump Administration has brazenly ignored t… Continue Reading
09.26.19
Statement Of Vice Chairman Leahy On Committee Consideration Of Five FY 2020 Appropriations Bills
The Committee has five bills before it today-the Interior bill, the State, Foreign Operations bill, the Commerce, Justice, Science bill, the Homeland Security bill, and the Legislative Branch bill. In a moment I will read the motion to report all five bills. I recommend an AYE vote on four of these bills -Interior, State, Foreign Operations, CJS, and Legislative Branch - and for reasons I will talk about in a moment, I urge a NO vote on the Homeland Bill. I want to thank Chairman Murkowski a… Continue Reading
09.24.19
SUMMARY: FY 2020 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill
Washington, D.C. - The fiscal year 2020 Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Bill provides a total discretionary level of $70.725 billion, of which $17.352 billion is provided for Disaster Relief, as defined by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, and $190 million is provided for Coast Guard Overseas Contingency Operations funds. After excluding these two amounts, the net discretionary appropriation for DHS is $53.183 billion, $3.772 billion more than the fiscal year 2019 en… Continue Reading
07.11.19
Leahy, Feinstein, Durbin: ICE Should Not Separate Families During Upcoming ICE Raids
(THURSDAY, July 11, 2019) - Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), joined by fellow Appropriators Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) - who also serve as the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration, respectively - Thursday sent an urgent letter to the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting confirmation … Continue Reading
07.26.18
Appropriations Vice Chairman Leahy REAX To House Appropriations Committee Passing The DHS Appropriations Bill
[(WASHINGTON-THURSDAY, July 26, 2018) - The House Appropriations Committee Wednesday passed the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill out of the House Appropriations Committee, continuing a partisan process of passing bills that have no chance of passing the Senate. The House bill contains $5 billion for a border wall, $3.9 billion more than the President's request, along America's Southern Border. It also includes drastic increases for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer… Continue Reading
06.21.18
Appropriations Vice Chair Leahy: Summary Of The Department Of Homeland Security FY19 Appropriations Bill
Washington, D.C. - The fiscal year 2019 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Bill provides a discretionary total of $55.151 billion, of which $6.652 billion is provided for Disaster Relief, as defined by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, and $165 million is provided for Coast Guard Overseas Contingency Operations funds. After excluding these two amounts, the net discretionary appropriation for DHS is $48.334 billion, $611 million more than the fiscal year 2… Continue Reading
06.21.18
Vice Chairman Leahy Statement On The FY 19 Homeland Security, SFOPS, and FSGG Appropriations Bill
The Committee has three bills before us today - the State, Foreign Operations bill, Department of Homeland Security bill, and the Financial Services and General Government bill. I thank all of the Chairs and Ranking Members for their hard work. As the Ranking Member of the State, Foreign Operations Subcommittee, I will reserve my remarks on the bill until we turn to it. I will note that I worked closely with Senator Graham, as we always do, in drafting the bill, and I believe we produced a tr… Continue Reading
06.19.18
SUMMARY: FY2019 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill Clears Senate Subcommittee
Washington, D.C. - The fiscal year 2019 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Bill provides a discretionary total of $55.151 billion, of which $6.652 billion is provided for Disaster Relief, as defined by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, and $165 million is provided for Coast Guard Overseas Contingency Operations funds. After excluding these two amounts, the net discretionary appropriation for DHS is $48.334 billion, $611 million more than the fiscal year 2… Continue Reading
11.21.17
Leahy Slams Border Wall Funding As “Bumper Sticker Budgeting”
WASHINGTON (TUESDAY, Nov. 21, 2017) - Slamming the proposal as "bumper sticker budgeting," Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Tuesday focused on a provision in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill that would provide $1.6 billion from American taxpayers for President Trump's border wall with Mexico. Leahy said: "This is bumper sticker budgeting to save face for one of President Trump's failed campaign promises. Instead of wasting billions of… Continue Reading
11.21.17
SUMMARY: FY 2018 Department Of Homeland Security Chairman's Mark Released
Washington, D.C. (Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017) - The Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday made public the Chairman's Mark of the fiscal year 2018 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill. The bill provides a total discretionary appropriation of $51.565 billion. The net discretionary total is $44.050 billion after the following amounts are excluded: $559 million in emergency appropriations for disaster relief; cap adjustment funding of $6.793 billion for disaster relief; and $163 milli… Continue Reading