04/01/2012
Sequester or no sequester, the Department of Homeland Security is in store for changes, a Senate Appropriations Committee staffer predicted.
The Budget Control Act calls for automatic cuts in 2013, or a sequester, if Congress doesn’t reach a compromise on spending cuts by the end of 2012. The Department of Homeland Security falls under the national security category in the law, as does the Defense Department, the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons programs and foreign aid. These departments are in store for large, automatic reductions if no agreement is reached.
If the sequester goes into effect, it will mean a 7.8 percent reduction in the DHS budget, said Charles Kieffer, staff director of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security.
When congressional leadership is “making macro decisions about allocating dollars between the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security and our nuclear complex, the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t compete very well,” he said at a talk sponsored by the Homeland Security Leadership Forum.
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