FY 2015 Budget Request

Yesterday the President submitted his FY 2015 Budget Request to Congress. In recent years this has been more of a wish list rather than an actual budget proposal because Congress has pretty much ignored the request and crafted their own budget. This year this is a particularly futile exercise because the Senate Budget Committee has already declared that it has no intention of producing a budget this year, leaving the Republicans in the House the sole (if somewhat limited) authority to enact a budget. As always, it will come down to what is in the actual spending bills that will eventually get passed by Congress.

None the less, the Budget Request is a pretty good outline of how the Administration would like to run the government if it had its way. The table below shows the budget numbers for those portions of DHS that I normally keep track of here in this blog. The dollar amounts (in millions of dollars) are for the overall account and the ‘FTE’ is full time equivalent employees (NOTE: the Coast Guard numbers are for military personnel only).

	FY 2014 ($M)	FY 2015 ($M)	% Change	FY 2014 FTE	FY 2015 FTE
TSA Surface	108.6	127.6	17.5	720	926
TSA I&V	176.5	232.5	31.6	490	799
Coast Guard	7,009	6,572	(6.2)	41,051	40,730
NPPD	56.5	65.9	1.7	305	358
IP/IS	1,187	1,197	0.8	1,373	1,544

FY 2015 Budget Request for Homeland Security

NOTE: The TSA I&V reflects the new Administration name (Intelligence and Vetting) for the old ‘Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing”.

NOTE: IP/IS is Infrastructure Protection and Information Security. This includes such programs as CFATS, US-CERT, and ICS-CERT among a number of others. These individual programs are not broken out in the current budget documents.

With the exception of the Coast Guard (and it looks like this is part of the general military cutback in the budget), DHS looks to do pretty well under the President’s proposal. We will get more details when the Secretaries make their trips to Capitol Hill in the coming weeks.

Then we just have to wait and see what Congress does with this.