Overall, the Department of Homeland Security would get a 6
percent boost to its budget, to $43.8 billion, according to documents obtained
by reporters. But the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is reportedly
seeking significant cuts to the budgets of the Coast Guard, the Transportation
Security Administration (TSA), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), which oversees the national response to disasters.
Here's someone not feeling safer.
"It is ignorant of what constitutes national
security," said retired Adm. James Loy, a former Coast Guard commandant
who served as deputy Homeland Security secretary and TSA administrator under
former-President George W. Bush, to Politico. "They simply don’t understand the equation."
And someone who backed an idiot for president who doesn't like it either.
"[A]s preparations are made for a wall on the Southwest
border, migrants, smugglers and potential terrorists will look to America’s shores and waterways for
entry," writes Rep. Duncan Hunter (R) of California, one of
Trump's earliest backers, in an opinion piece for Fox News. "Absent a
strong Coast Guard, America will be less safe and President Trump’s ambition to
fully reconstitute the military and enhance security will go unmet."
Have we all forgotten that Mexico is going to pay for it?
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