Millions of dollars of waste found in Trump administration’s immigration detention push
A government report found that the Department of Homeland Security wasted over $20 million in federal funding during a rapid expansion of immigration detention facilities.
Government investigators Thursday released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opposed in numerous U.S. communities.
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The U.S. Department of Education’s suspension this year of a comprehensive monitoring process puts billions of K-12 dollars at heightened risk of undetected waste, fraud and abuse, according to a new report by the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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