The Trump administration is considering deep cuts in the budgets of the
Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal
Emergency Management Agency as it looks for money to ratchet up security
along the southern border, according to a person familiar with the
administration’s draft budget request. The
goal is to shift about $5 billion toward hiring scores of additional
agents for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs
Enforcement...
To
fund those efforts, though, the plan would seek significant reductions
in other areas, including a 14 percent cut to the Coast Guard’s $9.1
billion budget and 11 percent cuts to both the T.S.A. and FEMA. The
three agencies have played high-profile roles in the Department of
Homeland Security’s post-Sept. 11 security architecture.
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