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DHS took more than three years to investigate most whistleblower retaliation complaints, and then took between four months and two years to decide what to do about the ones it substantiated.
GAO's September 17 report on the Department of Homeland Security found its Office of Inspector General took over three years to investigate 39 of the 73 whistleblower retaliation cases it opened and closed in fiscal years 2018 through 2025. Where a complaint was substantiated, the Secretary is expected to decide on corrective action within 30 days; GAO found those decisions waited a further four months to over two years. OIG officials cited case complexity and limited staff, and said they had focused on quality and thoroughness rather than timeliness. GAO's finding is narrower and harder to argue with: OIG policy requires timely review but has never defined what timely means in measurable terms, evaluated its own timeliness, or built any mechanism to hold itself to one.
Also filed undergaowhistleblowersoversightfederal-workforce
DHS terminated 362 grants and pulled back about $1 billion in 2025. GAO found some disaster-mitigation projects delayed by nearly a year — and the department taking the same approach again without writing down what it learned.
A February 2025 executive order directed agencies to consult the U.S. DOGE Service and review grants for termination within 30 days. GAO's September 17 report on what followed at the Department of Homeland Security: all obligated grant disbursement paused in February 2025, then 362 grants terminated and about $1 billion deobligated across four DHS components, plus new requirements imposed on remaining recipients. GAO found the approach 'made it difficult to execute grant programs' — some disaster mitigation projects were delayed by nearly a year. The recommendation is not that the terminations were wrong. It is that DHS is continuing to take similar actions and has not incorporated what this round taught it.
Also filed undergaograntspublic-spendingdisaster-mitigation
DHS proposes taking away the 60 days a laid-off H-1B worker has to find a new job. Comments close November 10.
The Department of Homeland Security published a proposed rule on September 11 that would remove the discretionary grace period of up to 60 days that workers in E-1, E-2, E-3, H-1B, H-1B1, L-1, O-1 and TN status currently get after their employment ends. Without it, the proposal would require a worker to depart the United States immediately upon failing to maintain the employment. DHS's own analysis says some workers may lose income and some may be issued Notices to Appear, and it offers a qualitative assessment rather than a count of the people affected. Nothing has changed yet: this is a proposal, the current rule still applies, and written comments are open until November 10, 2026.
Also filed underuscisimmigrationh-1bfederal-registerrulemakingcomment-period
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