Heritage Foundation | February 8, 2007

In matters of strategy, thought should always precede action. To its credit, the Bush Administration took on drafting a homeland security strategy as one of its first tasks after the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. The result has been a national effort that has, for the most part, neither veered into indifference nor careened into overreaction. It has made Americans safer. In particular, the Administration’s commitment to homeland security spending has, for the most part, been responsible and appropriate. The President’s proposed 2008 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget follows in that tradition. Congress should give it serious consideration.

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