Advocacy recommends that DHS republish a revised Certification that provides a more complete analysis of the impact of this proposed rule on small businesses

With each passing day it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the apparent breakdown in communications between the Trump White House and his various agency chiefs.  Earlier this morning we noted one of the more egregious communication mishaps since Trump took the White House in which Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC that General Michael Flynn enjoyed the "full confidence" of the President just hours before he was fired (see "Kellyanne Conway Blasts CNN Reports That

Following up our discussion of the priorities of the TSA (a.k.a. the Transportation Security Administration), we thought it might be worth looking at the priorities of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as measured by how it directed the money it was authorized to spend over the past 10 years.

As we warned was entirely possible, with just hours to go until The Department of Homeland Security runs out of money at midnight:

On July 6, 2009, the Office of Advocacy(Advocacy) of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) submitted comments on the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council Payments Under Fixed-Price Architecture and Engineering Contracts (A and E) proposed rule.

In what is an almost complete reversal of Trump's immigration executive order, which temporarily banned the entry of refugees and citizens from seven mostly Muslim nations into the US, moments ago the Department of Homeland Security announced that "in accordance with the judge's ruling, DHS has suspended any and all actions implementing the affected sections of the Executive Order entitled, "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States." 

REUTERS/Brian SnyderWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A watchdog agency at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it is planning to review how President Donald Trump's immigration executive order to temporarily suspend travel from seven majority-Muslim nations was implemented.

Moments ago we got another stark reminder from none other than the president himself, that the nightmare of all mega-statists, another (partial) government shutdown, may be just around the corner: IMPORTANT: Congress is only one day away from another shutdown. #EnoughAlready pic.twitter.com/xz5DwiZ3Ef — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2015

On August 19, 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) submitted comments to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on OSHA’s proposed Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Protective Equipment (Fall Protection Systems) rule.