US EditionWhite House OMB Director Russell Vought: DHS ‘disintegrating’
Vought said temporary pay funding is keeping DHS staff from quitting as Congress weighs a new bill for the agency.
- White House OMB Director Russell Vought said the Department of Homeland Security is disintegrating due to the ongoing funding lapses since February 14 and struggles in retaining employees.
- President Trump signed an emergency order on April 3 to pay DHS employees who lost pay during the shutdown following hundreds of unpaid TSA workers quitting, which caused long airport lines.
- More than 35,000 DHS employees began receiving paychecks because of Trump's order, but Vought described this as a temporary fix to prevent a complete employee walkout.
- Republican leaders planned to fund DHS except ICE and Border Patrol in one bill and fund those agencies separately, although the House had not yet scheduled a vote.
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White House budget chief Russ Vought warns DHS is ‘disintegrating’ amid shutdown
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought warned senators Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is "disintegrating" as the partial government shutdown continues with no end in sight.
OMB Chief: DHS 'Disintegrating' Amid Funding Lapse
The director of the White House Office of Management and Budget told a Senate panel that the Department of Homeland Security is in dire straits after a more than two-month partial shutdown has starved it of its discretionary funding.
OMB chief Vought says Homeland Security is 'disintegrating' during shutdown
Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told lawmakers in a hearing Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is “disintegrating” as it remains unfunded by Congress.
Vought warns senators that DHS is 'disintegrating' because of funding lapse
Funding for the department lapsed in February after Senate Democrats refused to help pass an appropriations bill that would fund DHS for the remainder of the current fiscal year, which ends in September.
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