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U.S. funding impasse blocks Secret Service hires: Homeland Security chief
Source: Reuters
U.S. funding impasse blocks Secret Service hires: Homeland Security chief
BY DOINA CHIACU AND SUSAN CORNWELL
WASHINGTON Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:20pm EST
(Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service cannot hire new agents for the next presidential election or make improvements at the agency until Congress settles a dispute over funding, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Thursday.
Johnson said in a speech in Washington that uncertainty over the budget for the Department of Homeland Security, which secures U.S. borders, airports and coastal waters and protects the president, had put security initiatives on hold.
These included recommendations made in December by a review panel on the Secret Service, which has been plagued with a series of security lapses, among them a White House intruder and a drone that landed on the mansion's lawn early Monday. The agency's director stepped down in October.
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The spending authority of the DHS expires on Feb. 27 and Republicans in the House of Representatives have tacked measures onto a DHS spending bill to block Democratic President Barack Obama's executive orders that provide legal protection for about 5 million undocumented immigrants.
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BY DOINA CHIACU AND SUSAN CORNWELL
WASHINGTON Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:20pm EST
(Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service cannot hire new agents for the next presidential election or make improvements at the agency until Congress settles a dispute over funding, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Thursday.
Johnson said in a speech in Washington that uncertainty over the budget for the Department of Homeland Security, which secures U.S. borders, airports and coastal waters and protects the president, had put security initiatives on hold.
These included recommendations made in December by a review panel on the Secret Service, which has been plagued with a series of security lapses, among them a White House intruder and a drone that landed on the mansion's lawn early Monday. The agency's director stepped down in October.
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The spending authority of the DHS expires on Feb. 27 and Republicans in the House of Representatives have tacked measures onto a DHS spending bill to block Democratic President Barack Obama's executive orders that provide legal protection for about 5 million undocumented immigrants.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/29/us-usa-security-funding-idUSKBN0L22L720150129
