The U.S. Capitol Police is poised to ask Congress for a 14% budget increase in 2024, which would bring the agency's budget to more than $840 million, CBS News has learned.
If approved, the budget would give Congress' internal police department an annual budget larger than the police departments of several major American cities, including Philadelphia, Denver, Cleveland and Tampa.
U.S. Capitol police officers during a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022.in the past three years. The agency investigated 7,501 cases involving threats against members of Congress in 2022, down from a high of 9,625 in 2021 but still nearly double the 3,939 cases it investigated in 2017.
Nevada Congressman Mark Amodei, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, said the panel is not offering a blank check to the Capitol Police department and there will be time for"back and forth" and a review of the department's request. Amodei, a Republican, told CBS News,"The cake will by no means be baked" when the police chief details the budget request Wednesday.
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