The High Price of Security

• Fiscal 2002: $4.8 billion
• Fiscal 2003: $7.1 billion
• Fiscal 2004 request: $4.8 billion

Fiscal 2004 budget request: Total: $4.8

• Aviation Security: $4.2 billion
  • Passenger screening: $1.8 billion
  • Baggage screening: $944 million
  • Enforcement*: $1.47 billion
• Maritime & Land Security: $86 million
• Intelligence: $14 million
• Research & Development: $75 million
• Administration: $431 million

* Figure includes $600 million for federal air marshals, who are being transferred to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Source: TSA