The "Black Budget": Intelligence Spending for Fiscal Year 2015 (H.R. 4681)
Do you support or oppose this bill?
What is H.R. 4681?
(Updated July 18, 2017)
This bill was enacted on December 19, 2014
The U.S. intelligence budget. The bill comprises the funding for the sixteen agencies collectively known as the United States Intelligence Community, abbreviated as IC. A list of those agencies can be found below. The IC is divided into two parts: the National Intelligence Program (NIP) and the Military Intelligence Program (MIP). The MIP deals with all expenses for military-related intelligence programs (for example, Coast Guard intelligence); the NIP deals with everything else (for example, the CIA). For Fiscal Year 2015, the funding request for the NIP was $45.6 billion, while funding for the MIP was $13.3 billion. This bill is one of the twelve, annual spending bills that direct how the majority of taxpayer dollars are spent.
Argument in favor
The overall request is down more than $2 billion from Fiscal Year ’14. These agency programs are critical to U.S. safety and security. Reduces lower priority programs, putting money where it's needed most.
Argument opposed
Much of Congress is not allowed to see line item budget requests of each agency, thereby making it difficult to gauge the cost-effectiveness of individual agency programs.
Impact
When enacted, the bill will set funding levels for Fiscal Year ’15 (October 1st, 2014 to September 30th, 2015) for the sixteen agencies comprising the United States Intelligence Community.
Cost of H.R. 4681
Additional Info
Media:
Of Note:
-In August 2013, the reported for the first time on the spending levels of individual intelligence agencies.
-The Daily Beast has obtained line items for the FY 15 intelligence budget. They can be found here.
-The sixteen agencies known to receive funding through the intelligence budget are:
- Air Force Intelligence
- Army Intelligence
- CIA
- Coast Guard Intelligence
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Department of Energy (note that funding for the DOE’s nuclear weapons program is handled via the National Defense Authourization Act, a separate spending bill)
- Department of Homeland Security
- State Department
- Department of the Treasury
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Marine Corps Intelligence
- National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency
- National Reconnaissance Office
- National Security Agency
- Navy Intelligence
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