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Chairman Mccaul Statement On President'S Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Request

Statement

Date: Feb. 9, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Government Budget and Spending

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul today released the following statement on the President's Fiscal Year 2017 budget request. This budget ignores the spending agreement made between Congress and the White House last fall.

Chairman McCaul: "The President's budget request does not reflect the fact that we face the highest terror threat level since 9/11. While the budget calls for a number of necessary security enhancements, it still falls short where we need it most. Our city streets have become the front lines in the war against Islamist terror, yet the President proposes slashing funding to state and local first responders. The threat at our borders is rising by the day, yet the President proposes cutting the number of border patrol agents. And while I am pleased to see the White House has finally included a few budget lines to address terrorists' recruitment of Americans, the President's overall budget still proposes spending billions more on countering climate change than on countering violent extremism here at home."


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