President Barack Obama signed into law the fiscal year 2011 budget, which eliminates additional high-speed rail funding and caps at 46,000 the number of full-time Transportation Security Administration employees

. At $1.049 trillion, the finalized budget is $78.5 billion less than Obama proposed. For the Department of Transportation, in addition to cutting new high-speed rail funding, the budget rescinds $400 million in previous-year funds. It also designates $9.5 billion for the Federal Aviation Administration, of which $4.5 billion is to derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security received a total of $41.8 billion in discretionary funding, down 2 percent from the prior year. The budget requires DHS to submit a detailed report to Congress on "the resources being devoted to develop more advanced integrated passenger screening technologies," and "labor savings from the deployment of improved technologies for passengers and baggage screening and how those savings are being used to offset security costs or reinvested to address security vulnerabilities."