The Assministration is preparing the FY 2009 Homeland Security budget to go to Congress in February, and it's a mess. Since Dumbya checks out in the first quarter of FY 09, it will be a budget that the next Administration would have to live with.
According to ABC News, the budget that Dumbya's proposing for state and local homeland security grants is only $1.4 billion, down from $3.2 billion in 2008. What's more alarming is that funding for port security, transit security and local emergency management operations has been zeroed out. Congress is certain to reject these cuts, and this final piece of the Decider's handiwork will be dead on arrival.
