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House Appropriations Bill Wants $63.8 Billion for DHS, with Border Funding Prohibitions
The bill provides $2.2 billion for departmental management – $398 million above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $77 million above the president’s budget request.
Border Security
OIG Tells DHS to Improve Management of Consortia OTAs
The Office of the Inspector General within the Department of Homeland Security has investigated the Department’s management of other transaction agreements involving consortium activities.
Airport & Aviation Security
GAO: TSA Should Better Target Unlawful Profiling
The Government Accountability Office has testified that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has guidance and checklists to monitor screeners’ use of behavior detection, but that it should better target unlawful profiling.
Biometrics & ID Management
OIG Tells DHS to Improve Insider Threat Program Before Expanding Further
The Department of Homeland Security’s insider watchdog says there must be more action to ensure its Insider Threat Program doesn’t violate employees’ rights as well as other policy and procedural improvements before continuing the program’s planned expansion.
Border Security
Crisis at the Border? DHS OIG Warns of Dangerous Overcrowding at Border Facilities
Some of the detainees at the El Paso Del Norte Processing Center had been held in standing-room-only conditions for days or weeks, often in soiled clothing for the duration.
DHS
GAO Tells Coast Guard and DOD to Improve Racial and Gender Disparities Reporting
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation into racial or gender disparities in the military justice system found that Blacks, Hispanics, and males were more likely than Whites or females to be tried in general and special courts-martial in all military services.
ATF
9/11 Memorial Glade Dedicated to Ongoing Loss of Life from Health Impacts of Attacks
The Glade honors all of the response, recovery, and rescue responders who came to NYC, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania.
DHS
OIG: DHS Failed to Comply with Improper Payments Act in Fiscal 2018
An Office of the Inspector General enquiry has found that the Department of Homeland Security did not comply with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 (IPERA) in fiscal 2018 because the Department did not meet two of the six requirements.
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