Top 4 Homeland Security Issues for the Trump Administration

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Heritage:

President-elect Donald Trump and his soon-to-be-selected secretary of homeland security will have a full plate when they take over in January.

 

Indeed, there are so many areas for reform and improvement that any efforts to fix the Department of Homeland Security could easily get bogged down.

 

Luckily, The Heritage Foundation has identified four main priorities that the next administration should focus on.

 

1. DHS Management

 

DHS management needs to be fixed. Its organizational cohesiveness and central leadership continue to present significant challenges that require more work than the Obama administration’s Unity of Effort initiative.

 

Additionally, the DHS’ office policy should be strengthened to create intra-agency policy, resolve agency disputes, and, above all, drive structural change so that DHS components can work more efficiently as a cohesive unit.

 

Luckily, the newly released National Defense Authorization Act conference report takes a step in this direction by upgrading the head of the DHS office of policy from assistant secretary to under secretary.