House Homeland Security Committee Aims to Send Billions to CBP
The House Homeland Security Committee released its budget reconciliation recommendations, part of the process to extend Trump tax cuts and possibly, add new tax cuts. That committee, however, is adding spending, both for screening cargo and hiring CBP Office of Field Operations officers.
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It proposed more than $1 billion for procuring and integrating new non-intrusive inspection equipment, machine learning and artificial intelligence "as well as other mission support, to combat the entry of illicit narcotics along the southwest, northern, and maritime borders."
It proposed $1 billion for leasing, buying, building or improving CBP facilities at the southwest, northern and maritime borders.
It proposed $4.1 billion, through Sept. 30, 2029, to hire additional OFO officers, CBP support personnel, Border Patrol agents, air and marine agents, and to rehire retirees, and more than $2 billion, over the same period, for annual retention bonuses or signing bonuses for eligible border patrol agents and Office of Field Operations officers.