“The Dept of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog division has been so weakened under the Trump admin that it is failing to provide basic oversight of the govt.’s 3rd-largest federal agency, according to whistleblowers and lawmakers from both parties.” washingtonpost.com/national/homel…
“DHS’s Office of the Inspector General is on pace to publish fewer than 40 audits and reports this fiscal year, the smallest number since 2003 and one-quarter of the agency’s output in 2016, when it published 143...”
This.
“But the agency’s authority and productivity have withered, and in the weeks before the coronavirus outbreak, Inspector General Joseph Cuffari ducked requests to appear on Capitol Hill for routine testimony, a decision congressional staffers describe as unprecedented.”
“But the agency’s authority and productivity have withered, and in the weeks before the coronavirus outbreak, Inspector General Joseph Cuffari ducked requests to appear on Capitol Hill for routine testimony, a decision congressional staffers describe as unprecedented.”
