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With The Afghan War Over, Will U.S. Homeland Security Be Facing Budget And Personnel Cuts?
FOX News/Wall Street Journal: The business of Homeland Security thrives in the two decades since 9/11
After the attacks, federal policies swelled a defense sector that has reshaped U.S. surveillance as well as northern Virginia’s suburbs
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, led policy makers to embark on one of the largest spending binges in federal government history, transforming the private sector, the Washington metropolitan area and Americans’ relationship with their government.
Two cabinet departments—the Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security, which was created after the attacks to consolidate a number of existing agencies—saw huge funding increases as Washington geared up to fight two conventional wars, conduct world-wide operations against small, distributed networks of terrorists and harden the home front against future attacks.
The world’s sole superpower in 2001, the U.S. had been cutting military spending for nearly a decade before the terrorist attacks. Military spending as a share of gross domestic product had shrunk to less than a third of its size at the height of the Vietnam War and less than half what it had been in the Reagan years.
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WNU Editor: Publicly the Biden administration is saying that the U.S. is safe even with the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban. Will they back this rhetoric by cutting the budgets and programs that Homeland Security are responsible for, and maybe use the Department of Defense money that will no longer be spent on Afghanistan elsewhere?
My gut says no.
In fact I see the Biden administration and Congress not only continuing the the flow of money into Homeland Security and the Defense Department, but also increasing their budgets even more.
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