Comparing DHS Component Funding, FY2017: Fact Sheet (CRS Report for Congress)
| Release Date |
Revised Oct. 6, 2017 |
| Report Number |
R44611 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
William L. Painter Specialist in Emergency Management and Homeland Security |
| 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. The following figures show two perspectives on the budget authority for
DHS enacted for FY2016 and requested by the Barack Obama Administration for FY2017, as
well as the funding levels provided in the Senate-reported and House-reported homeland security
appropriations bills and the first five titles of the FY2017 DHS appropriations act.
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On March 16, 2017, the Donald J. Trump Administration submitted an amendment to the FY2017
budget request, which included a request for $3 billion in additional funding for DHS. The
appropriations committees responded to this request for additional funding in a sixth title of the
DHS appropriations act. This fact sheet reflects this supplemental funding separately from the
annual appropriations in the first five titles, and presents the original FY2017 budget request
unamended, as that was the basis for the annual appropriations reflected in the FY2017 measure.
Figure 1 shows total net discretionary appropriations for DHS broken down by component, and
ordered from largest to smallest by FY2016 enacted funding level.
In Figure 1, the first column shows budget authority provided in P.L. 114-113, which included
the FY2016 annual appropriations act for DHS as Division F. The second column shows a similar
breakdown for the FY2017 request, while the third and fourth show the Senate Appropriations
Committee-reported and House Appropriations Committee-reported proposed funding levels. The
final column shows the budget authority provided in the FY2017 DHS appropriations act.
Supplemental funding is reflected with a pattern to differentiate it from annual appropriation.
Note that the Obama Administration proposed the creation of a new component in FY2017—the
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives Office—which would have included
two other entire components: the Office of Health Affairs and the Domestic Nuclear Detection
Office. While the House committee-reported bill approved this realignment, the Senate
committee-reported bill and, ultimately, the enacted FY2017 annual appropriation did not.
