Criticisms behind the Department of Homeland Security

Criticism behind the Department of Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security, created in 2002, created the second largest government agency in the country (second only to the Department of Defense). The creation of this agency was highly controversial in the United States Congress for two primary reasons. First, the cost of administration of the new agency immediately created a new, huge financial obligation of the government that did not exist previously and, secondly, the new agency became an “umbrella” agency that managed twenty-two previously autonomous agencies already assigned the basic mission directives of security within the United States. Are these alleged criticisms valid, or did a new need exist?

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Cheeseman, H. R. (2016). Business law: Legal environment, online commerce, business ethics, and international issues. Boston: Pearson.

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According to the effects that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) brought out in the United States, both the alleged criticisms are valid. Upon the establishment of the agency, controversies highly emerged among the Congress of the United States. The first reason as to why DHS led to the emergence of disagreements among the Congress is the administration cost that created substantial financial obligation immediately after the establishment of the DHS. This aspect raised great controversies since the agency lacked transparent and effectiveness, it wasted a lot of money and had excessive bureaucracy characteristic. According to the estimates of the Congress, the department has consumed about $15 billion through failed contracts by September 2008. The high financial obligation that was created by the department was considered as a way of spending money wastefully as the media revealed it in 2003 on how the Chief Information Officer spent it (Cheeseman, 2016)………

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