When zombies attack, the Department of Homeland Security will be prepared. That was one of the few pieces of good news in Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn’s new report “Safety at Any Price: Assessing the Impact of Homeland Security Spending in U.S. Cities.”
The report found there has been lax oversight of the $35 billion in grants that the DHS has given to state and local governments since 2003. Coburn alleges that much of the money went to “low-priority and low-risk areas” and has done little to help Americans prepare for a terrorist attack.
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