(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday rescinded a policy requiring the secretary to approve contracts over $100,000.
The news followed a re-evaluation of the department’s contract process, DHS said, while adding that Mullin wanted to make sure the department is serving American taxpayers efficiently.
Mullin’s cancellation of the policy came less than a week after he was sworn in to succeed former chief Kristi Noem. Congressional Democrats, who welcomed the decision, had written to Noem earlier this month, asking that she cancel the policy they said had “resulted in widespread delays in funding and mismanagement.”
