That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
Ing on this very challenging task, he developed and coordinated strategies and policies that advanced Homeland Security mission and protected the American Public through his leadership role in the office of strategy, policy and plans. Mr. Wolf is a recipient of the u. S. Secretary of Homeland Securitys distinguished Service Medal for issues to Counter International terrorism and safeguard american interests throughout his career at the department. Thank you for that. Im glad to be joined by our sub committees Ranking Member, senator tester. We are continuing to consider or beginning to consider, actually, the fiscal year 2021 budget request and look forward to further insight from you, mr. Secretary. Very pleased to be joined by the Ranking Member of the full committee or senator leahy as well. In the fiscal year 2020 bill enacted december 20th, 2019, on a broad bipartisan basis. Our 2020 bill provided 54. 6 billion in discretionary funding and included several significant investments
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Welcome. I call this hearing of the subcommittee on homeland curator to order, this is the subcommittees first hearing of the budget cycle, and we are pleased to join chad wulf. Mr. Wolf was named after acting secretary and its thousand 19. Prior to taking on the task, he developed and coordinated strategies and policies that advanced the Homeland Security mission and protect the American Public through his later ship role in the office of shadow gee, policy and plans. He is a recipient of the Homeland Security distinguished Service Medal for his initiatives to counter domestic and international terrorism, a safeguard american interests throughout the duration of his career so, thank you for that. Im glad to be joined by our seven queen is Ranking Member, senator tester. We are continuing to the fiscal year 2021 budget request and look forward to further insight today from you, mr. Secretary. Very pleased to be joined by the Ranking Member of the full committee, senator leahy, as well.
Calling the committee to order of the budget cycle we are pleased to be joined by acting secretary chad wolf. Named after acting secretary november 132019 before taking on the challenging task he developed coordinated strategies and policies for the Homeland Security mission protected the public through his leadership role through strategy and policy as a recipient of the secretary distinguished Service Medal for International Terrorism and throughout the duration of his career. Thank you for that. We are continuing to consider the budget request 2021 and look for further insight from you. Some of the fiscal year 2021 enacted december 20th 2019. And then 50. 46 billion of tidiscretionary funding with those investments to protect the homeland for years to come millions of dollars for Border Security including funding for border wall system humanitarian care requirements and those all add existing Border Patrol facilities. Grant programs to provide additional funding from terrorism preve