Comparing DHS Component Funding, FY2018: In Brief (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised April 17, 2018 |
| Report Number |
R44919 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Painter, William L. |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
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Summary:
Generally, the homeland security appropriations bill includes all annual appropriations for
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), providing resources to every departmental
component.1 The following figures show two perspectives on the budget authority for
DHS enacted for FY2017
2
and requested by the Donald Trump Administration for FY2018, as
well as the funding levels provided in H.R. 3354, which included the House-passed homeland
security appropriations bill, the unnumbered Senate Appropriations Committee draft released on
November 21, 2017, and P.L. 115-141, Division F of which was the Department of Homeland
Security Appropriations Act, 2018.
Figure 1 shows total net discretionary appropriations for DHS distributed by departmental
component, and ordered from largest to smallest by FY2017 enacted annual funding level. Due to
constraints of scale, Figure 1 does not include resources provided through supplemental
appropriations.3
In Figure 1, the first column shows (by component) the budget authority provided in P.L. 115-31,
which included the FY2017 annual appropriations act for DHS as the first five titles of Division
F. Appropriations with the disaster relief or emergency designations (in the case of FEMA) or
Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) designation (in the case of the Coast Guard) are shown
immediately above the segment for their DHS component with a pattern to distinguish them from
net discretionary appropriations. The second column shows a similar breakdown by component
for the FY2018 request, while the third shows the House-passed funding levels as outlined in
Divisions E and M of H.R. 3354.
4
Funding levels from the Senate Appropriations Committee
draft released on November 21, 2017, appear in the fourth column, and the final column shows
the annual appropriations provided as a part of the consolidated appropriations act for FY2018.5
The purpose of this figure is to provide a visual comparison between the size of budget authority
recommended or provided to DHS components. To accomplish this, supplemental appropriations
are not reflected in the figure due to the difference in scale between the largest supplemental
appropriations and the average component funding level.
