External Constraints: Budget
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FEMA's base budget cut 9.6% from FY 2003 to FY 2005 (White House budget
requests would have cut it 22.5%)
- Project Impact cancelled in 2001
- Hazards Mitigation Grants Program cut in half in 2003
FEMA budget request to buy and pre-position communi-cations equipment in New
Orleans after the Hurricane Pam exercise was deleted by DHS in the
presentation of its overall FY 2005 budget request to Congress
DHS, alone among Federal departments, has the right to reprogram money from
one of its agencies' base budgets to another without Congressional approval,
and made such transfers:
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5 times in FY 2003 ($80 million)
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5 times in FY 2004 ($90 million)
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2 times in FY 2005 ($30 million)