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Homeland Security

Local grants, Hazard mitigation cut

The budget proposes a $2.7 billion increase in funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Despite the overall increase, the budget seeks deep cuts for FEMA and a variety of state and local grant programs. Taken together, state and local programs administered by DHS would be cut by $2 billion, nearly half of current funding. The State Homeland Security Grant Program would receive $200 million, a cut of $750 million. Emergency management grants would be cut by 50%. The Pre-Disaster Mitigation Fund would be cut by $39 million to $75 million. Flood map modernization would receive $70 million less than current funding.

The DHS budget calls for the same amount of funding for transit, passenger rail, and freight rail security that Congress appropriated in FY07. The omnibus more than doubled that funding for FY08. Among the hardest-hit programs would be transit security grants, Congress increased funding to $400 million in FY08 but the budget request seeks to cut that by more than half.

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