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
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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
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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)