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Federal Budget: It's Security, Physical and Financial | Advantage zyaada

These all, look after the law of the land and promote security of resources, citizens, cultural heritage and the banks! So sez the Sherriff.

Homeland Security:

• 100o Advanced Imaging Technology machines for screening passengers and increasing deployment of Federal Air Marshals (Aviation Security)
• 20000 Border Patrol Agents, with 300 new officers at Ports of Entry
• Funding $4 bn in State and Local programs and $1.95 bn for Disaster Assistance. State and Local programs include Firefighter Assistance and the $1 bn Urban area Security Initiative
• The fifth National Security Cutter and Four new Fast response cutters for the Coast Guard for recapitalisation of Coast guard assets
• Next generation Bio Watch sensors for $89 million against biological attacks
• $1.6 bn for Immigration and Customs Enforcement programs
• $288 mn for a consolidated DHS premises in the NCR region
• $400mn for UCIS in 2011 incl $167 mn for expanding thru E-Verify and SAVE programs
• $7.3 bn for continuing FEMA program funding

Department of the Interior:

• 9GW of renewable energy capacity on Deptt lands by 2011
• $620 mn for Land Acquisition for national parks, forests and endangered species (and promote outdoor recreation)
• Improve return to taxpayers from U.S. Minerals production
• Enhance management capacities of tribals and coordination with Federal agencies
• Preventive funds for Wildfires and water conservation
• Generate mandatory savings of $2.7 bn over ten years and an annual provision of $12 bn

Department of Justice

• The President’s Budget for DOJ is $28.2 bn
• $600 mn for hiring of addl Police Officers ( COPS ) double from the 2009 budget
• $538 million to combat crimes against women an increase of 29%
• Interagency Task force to combat Financial Crime incl HEAT , Addl FBI agents and DOJ attorneys to investigate white collar crime.
• $100 mn for Drugs Enforcement with DEA’s EPIC and Organised Crime OCDETF
• $245 for counter terrorism with 60% for FBI National Security Program
• $175 mn for Prisoner reentry and substance abuse rograms

Department of Labour

• Reform of the Workforce Investment Act providing $10bn for Job Training and Employment services
• Workforce innovation P’ship with DoE (education) for two innovation funds – $6bn at DOL and $4bn at DOE
• Reform unemployment Insurance with boosted integrity efforts to backstop $4 bn in improper payments and $300 mn in employer taxes
• Expand automatic Workplace pensions for tens of millions of workers of the 78 million without one. $1000 per year tax credit for small business employers
• Auto enrollment for 401(k) programs and improved operations (?) on such DC savings systems

Department of State

• Funding international USAID programs and increasing funding for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and maternal and child health in the President’s Global Health Initiative
• Promotes governance, reconstruction and other development activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan incl security assistance for Pak and a signature energy project ( Tajkistan?)
• US-Iraq strategic Framework agreement for a sovereign stable and self reliant Iraq
• Global Hunger Initiative thru World Bank MDF facilities for Agricultural development and under five nutrition programs
• Grow Peace Corps by 50% to 11,000 volunteers in 2016
• Job creation and employment focused education efforts internationally to maximise Global engagement
• Combat trafficking in people worldwide
• $13 bn for Admn of Foreign Affairs going to $12.4 bn in 2011
• $2bn for Drug Enforcement and $1.6 bn for Migration assistance
• $5.4 bn in Foreign Military Financing

Corps of Engineers

• $1.7 bn for aquatic ecosystem construction projects for commercial navigation as well as flood and storm damage reduction
• Named ecosystems include the Everglades, the California Bay-Delta and the Louisiana coastal Wetlands
• Replace the Fuel Tax now in force for funding inland waterways
• Cutting $129 mn in waste and duplicated efforts of other Federal Programs

Veteran Affairs

• $57 billion for a 20% increase since 2009
• $50.6 bn in advanced appropriations for VA medical care
• enrol 500K moderate income veterans into VA health care by 2013 apart from low income and disabled veterans on rolls
• Jointly implementing Virtual lifetime Electronic Records with DOD
• $5.2 bn in specialised care for post traumatic stress, PT brain injury and other mental conditions
• A national cemetary for 500K more veterans covering 94% of veterans
• $800 million for VA’s services for thee homeless with non profits, HUD DOJ and Labor

Department of Transportation

• $4bn for National Infrastructure innovation and Finance Fund
• $30 mn Federal Transit safety program
• A modern NextGen Air Traffic control System
• DOT is carrying majority of the ARRA funds for development of infrastructure as tracked at recovery.gov for job creation
• Allocation based on Greater analysis and consideration of program performance
• $1 bn for promising transformational projects incl high-speed rail
• $527 mn to help state and Local participation with $150 mn from HUD grants and $10 MM from EPA
• 5 year $5 bn pledge for High Speed Rail
• $13 bn for Fed Aviation Administration and $41 bn for Federal Highway Admn

Department of the Treasury

• $8bn for IRS’ enforcement and modernization programs
• Collecting $2.3 T in revenue and disbursing the same in payments
• Continue support for Housing & Economic Recovery Act 2008, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2008 and other TARP agreemnts with investment agreements to support banks, GSEs and insurance companies
• New TARP agreements to support restructuring of mortgages
• Significantly lower cost in 2010 and 2011
• Common sense reforms to recover $2bn a year in federal revenue and wasteful expenses
• Eliminate $250 mn subsidy for Terrorism Insurance
• $41.4 bn in TARP for 2010 and $11bn in 2011
• $12 bn for IRS in departmental allocations

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