Department of Homeland Security officials will spend nearly $61 billion in 2015 and provide jobs for more than 240,000 people, but odds are it won’t fulfill any of the missions it was given when Congress created it in 2003, according to the Senate’s most ardent foe of government waste, fraud and abuse.
“Based upon the available evidence, DHS is not successfully executing any of its five main missions. Many of DHS’s programs, in fact, are ineffective and should be reconsidered,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., in his final report as ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.
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