Current vacancies at the highest levels of the Department of Homeland Security are cause for concern at a department already struggling with management and morale problems, current and former government watchdogs testified
"In the best of times, DHS is unruly and difficult to manage organization and we are not in the best of times," said former Inspector General John Roth during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing. Vacancies,"particularly those that remain vacant for a long time, cripple the ability of the Department to move forward," wrote Roth in testimony.
"When it comes to employee morale, Dodaro said that the"optimum is to have a confirmed person in place over a sustained period of time," although he acknowledged that change is"inevitable." DHS has struggled with low employee morale scores since it began operations in 2003, according to GAO. In 2018, the department ranked dead last among 20 large and very large federal agencies.
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