Senate Appropriations Committee Introduces Nine Pieces of Legislation
The infrastructure security funding will include $39.6 million for bombing prevention.
According to MeriTalk, one of the nine new bills is a new Homeland Security Bill that would give the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) a 30 percent budget increase over FY2021 levels, to $2.638 billion.That funding total is $218 million more than appropriated in the House of Representatives FY2022 Homeland Security appropriations bill, $504 million more than requested in President Biden’s budget, and $613 million more than appropriated for FY2021.
