Rabu, 20 Februari 2013

Cuts to hurt domestic security spending

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sent a letter to lawmakers highlight how imminent spending cuts would affect her agency is able to carry out its functions, including border security.

"Disqualification will roll back border security, increased waiting times at ports of entry and airports in the nation, affecting air and maritime safety and security, vital infrastructure vulnerable to attacks, impede disaster response time. By and large scale back infrastructure cyber security, "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wrote in a letter to members of Parliament.

Will also have a significant part of the front line law enforcement personnel management should be given for up to 14 days, she said.

Sikoister-a series of blunt, automatic funding cuts across much of the federal budget beginning in March--was supposed to come into effect. Instead, the threat it was supposed to motivate legislators find a smarter way to reduce the deficit over the next decade.

But there is a deep divide between the political parties in Washington about how to replace sikoister. Democrats want to replace it with a combination of tax increases and more stepwise; spending cuts Republicans want to replace just cut spending.

With very little time remaining, chances are high that funding cuts will go into effect, at least temporarily.

In detail the White House last week, the impact of spending cuts on the rest of the Government. He warned sikoister ultimate cut 9% of its funding from non-defense programs and 13 per cent of defence programmes.

Napolitano, along with Secretary of education Arne Duncan and housing Secretary Shaun Donovan, will testify on Thursday before the Senate Appropriations Committee "after stepping down from their agencies.

-Jim Acosta SI contributed to this report.To top of page

First published: 13 February 2013: 6: 11 pm et

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