Homeland Security
Chairman Mark Amodei
2006 Rayburn House Office Building
(202) 225-5834
Majority | Minority |
| Mark Amodei – Chair | Lauren Underwood – Acting Ranking Member |
| John Rutherford | Henry Cuellar |
| Dan Newhouse | Ed Case |
| Ashley Hinson | Veronica Escobar |
| Michael Guest | |
| Tony Gonzales | |
| Juan Ciscomani – Vice Chair |
FY26 Member Day Hearing Instructions FY26 Written Public Testimony Instructions
Recent Activity
Welcome to the subcommittee markup of the Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Appropriations bill.
I would like to welcome Full Committee Chairwoman Granger and Ranking Member DeLauro, our Subcommittee Ranking Member Cuellar, and all the Members of the Subcommittee.
Let me begin by thanking the Members of the Subcommittee for their participation and insightful questions during our budget hearings over the last few months. As we put together the bill and report in front of you, we made a concerted effort to address as many Member priorities as possible.
Our job on the Subcommittee is to ensure that the men and women of DHS who work tirelessly on our behalf have the resources and tools they need to protect the homeland. I want to convey our deepest appreciation for everything they do to safeguard our national security.
Chairman Joyce, thank you for presenting the Homeland Security bill for Fiscal Year 2024. I appreciate the great work that you have done in your first year chairing this Subcommittee.
I also want to thank Ranking Member Cuellar for what we have done together on issues that affect our security. I am glad you are in this role on the Subcommittee.
A few weeks ago, several of us traveled to the southwest border. I have visited the border many times, and it has never been this bad.
Just last year, Customs and Border Protection encountered a record 2.7 million migrants at our border. We have already encountered more than a million migrants this year.
Republicans have been sounding the alarm for the last two years. Unfortunately, this Administration's policies have fueled this crisis, and it will only get worse if something doesn't change.
WASHINGTON - Today, the House Appropriations Committee released the Fiscal Year 2024 bill for the Homeland Security Subcommittee. The bill will be considered tomorrow, May 18th at 10:00 a.m. The markup will be live-streamed and can be found on the Committee's website.
Members are required to post every Community Project Funding request online. Links to those public requests are included below in alphabetical order.
Thank you, Chairman Cole and Ranking Member McGovern, for allowing me to testify on the Limit, Save, Grow Act.
I want to start by thanking Speaker McCarthy, Leader Scalise, Ways and Means Chairman Smith, and Budget Chairman Arrington for their hard work on this bill.
I hope the President will come to the table and work with us to ensure our nation does not default on our debt.
I want to highlight one very straightforward idea included in this package: to rescind funds that are not needed at this time and redirect them to other priorities.
For example, as much as $60 billion that was appropriated more than two years ago for COVID remains unspent.
Now that the national emergency is officially over, we should be able to take back those resources.
There is also no reason for the IRS to be holding on to billions of dollars for future years.
The Subcommittee on Homeland Security will come to order.
I want to welcome everyone to our Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. Coast Guard's 2024 Budget Request with U.S. Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Linda Fagan.
Welcome Admiral Fagan. It's a pleasure to see you again, and I thank you for your testimony today as we discuss the Coast Guard's fiscal year 2024 budget request.
Whether it is enabling the flow of commerce through our maritime transportation system, interdicting migrants on the open ocean, or combatting illicit narcotic trafficking, our nation relies on the men and women of the Coast Guard.
The demands on the Coast Guard have never been greater. The Arctic, IndoPacific, and the maritime border have all presented challenges to the agency over the past year.
The work agents and officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection do every day has immense importance to both our national and economic security.
Put simply, their collective job is to keep bad things and people from entering the country illegally.
However, our agents and officers' jobs are made harder by the President's fundamentally unserious budget request for CBP.
Unfortunately, the Fiscal Year 24 request is full of inexplicable gimmicks, and I'll explain those later.
For example, the President proposes $174 million dollars for additional surveillance towers, but fails to provide adequate funding to maintain the ones we already have in the field.
