By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com House Republicans proposed a spending bill for Homeland Security that includes a $100 million increase over current funding levels. The increase is $432 million more than President Obama requested for fiscal year 2017, the Washington Examiner reports. Republicans supported the increase in funding to boost border security, aviation security protection and…
The department was only able to account for $1.9 million of $1.4 billion that was appropriated in fiscal 2014.
Dan Thomasson Las Vegas Sun Here we go again. Rather than fund the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, let’s tear it up and hand it over to the FBI. The cost of that, of course, would be four to six times what just giving the maligned agency the kind of support it needs…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not many people want to be in Joe Clancy’s shoes. The longtime agent that President Obama recently appointed to lead the beleaguered Secret Service will face tough questions from lawmakers today over the latest embarrassment to hit the agency. Clancy is scheduled to appear before the House Appropriations Committee for a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents are going to have a harder time getting overtime under a proposal to overhaul the system after a whistleblower exposed abuse, FOX10 News reports. The overhaul of the overtime system is expected to save about $100 million. The agents aren’t happy about the new system, though, because many…
By Los Angeles Times Editorial It took the House GOP leadership a couple of weeks, but it finally conceded defeat Tuesday and allowed a “clean” funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security to come up for a vote. With all 182 Democrats in the Capitol and 75 of the 242 Republicans lining up in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After all the outrage and pledges to dig in for a fight against President Obama’s immigration plan, Republicans in the House gave up Tuesday and voted to fund Homeland Security to avoid a partial shutdown of the agency. The New York Times reports that Speaker John A. Boehner built a coalition…
By Denver Post Editorial Board House Speaker John Boehner seemingly wants radical conservatives in the Republican caucus to stop threatening a pointless, partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security as a response to President Obama’s immigration orders. But if so, there is a simple solution: Let the House vote on the Senate-passed measure. By…
