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15. Small budget for the DHS?

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2013, 10:01 AM

Apr 2013

Though the DHS has the authority to carry out spot inspections at facilities, it has a small budget for that and only a "small number" of field auditors, the person said.

Did anyone else catch this? Should we thank republicans again for this or this a bit of misinformation?

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