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FILE - Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, Sept. 30, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. health secretary Xavier Becerra is ordering Medicare to reassess a big premium increase facing millions of seniors this year. The increase was largely attributed to a pricey new Alzheimer’s drug with questionable benefits. Becerra’s directive on Monday comes days after drugmaker Biogen slashed the price of its $56,000-a-year medication, Aduhelm, to $28,200 a year — a cut of about half. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP, File)

Watchdog: HHS failing on health crises, deemed ‘high risk’

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

In this Jan. 25, 2011, file photo, a cache of seized weapons that were to be smuggled into Mexico is displayed in Phoenix. Among the thousands of immigrants who have been coming across the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, many are seeking to escape gang and drug violence raging in their homelands. The weapon of choice used to intimidate them is often an American-made gun. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

40% of guns traced from crimes in Central America came from U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 26, 2010, file photo, men sit in the sun in the health ward at the Otay Mesa immigration detention center in San Diego. Thousands of immigration detainees have been moved around the country, far from their homes, for reasons like bed availability or medical care, according to federal officials. San Diego County has approved a plan to provide attorneys to immigrants facing deportation proceedings. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, approved a $5 million, one-year pilot program. It would provide lawyers for free to those detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center, the local federal immigration detention facility. San Diego will be the first southern border county in the U.S. to provide such legal representation. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

ICE deported at least 70 potential U.S. citizens: GAO audit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 19, 2019, file photo, an F-35 fighter jet arrives at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington, Vt. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File) ** FILE **

Billions need to be cut from troubled F-35 fighter program, watchdog warns

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A Haitian migrant family looks to emerge from a rocky canal adjacent to a gap in the U.S. border wall in Yuma, Ariz., Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)

Trump’s claims on construction of border wall system undercut by GAO audit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 12, 2021, photo, President Donald Trump tours a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Alamo, Texas. During the Trump administration's final weeks, the Department of Homeland Security quietly signed agreements with at least four states that threaten to temporarily derail President Joe Biden's efforts to undo his predecessor's immigration policies. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Trump administration cut corners to speed wall money, auditors say

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Tucson Samaritans check the border wall, including a small gap in the new construction, near Sasabe, Ariz., on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Opponents that seek to control immigration, such as the Washington-based think tank Center for Immigration Studies, contend the border wall and other barriers are a better way to keep deaths down by keeping migrants out. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) ** FILE **

Top federal watchdog says Biden’s border wall halt was legal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The transport vessel Transshelf carries the damaged USS Fitzgerald, a U.S. Navy destroyer, towards the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula, Miss., Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. The ship was damaged in a June collision off Japan, that killed seven sailors. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Fatigue and overwork still a problem for the Navy, GAO study says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Pandemic loan program at high-risk for fraud, auditor finds

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

Female recruits stand at the Marine Corps Training Depot on Parris Island, S.C., Feb. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith) ** FILE **

GAO survey finds women face higher uniform bills in military

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this file photo, members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) **FILE**

DHS says military needed on southern border for at least 3 more years

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An ICE facility is shown in this August 6, 2019, photo in the public domain, taken by Keith Gardner for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [https://www.dvidshub.net/image/5655616/life-inside-aurora-contract-detention-facility] **FILE**

Audit finds DHS wastes millions on unused detention beds

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 6, 2014, file photo, empty nuclear waste shipping containers sit in front of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The U.S. government's efforts to clean up decades worth of Cold War-era waste from nuclear research and bomb making at federal sites around the country has chugged along, often at a pace that watchdogs and other critics say threatens public health and the environment. Now, fallout from the global coronavirus pandemic is resulting in more challenges as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's only underground repository for nuclear waste, finished ramping down operations Wednesday, April 1, 2020, to keep workers safe. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Watchdog: US nuclear dump facing space, staffing challenges

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 6, 2020, file photo, a sign stands outside the Department of Labor's headquarters in Washington. A government watchdog has found that the Labor Department’s widely watched weekly unemployment benefits data are providing an inaccurate reading on the number of newly laid off workers because of flaws in the government’s data collection. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

GAO says weekly unemployment benefits report flawed

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

Acting Homeland Secretary Chad Wolf gives a speech in front of a new section of the border wall Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in McAllen, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP) **FILE**

Feds paying up to $870,000 an acre for border land for wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Report: Millions of full-time US workers get government aid

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

Watchdog urges more action to protect planes from hackers

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

In this June 28, 2019, file photo the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seal is seen during a news conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) **FILE**

Inspector general declines to investigate DHS leadership

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this June 1, 2020, file photo police clear the area around Lafayette Park and the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

16 federal agencies sent SWAT teams to deal with protests: Audit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this April 23, 2020, photo, President Donald Trump's name is seen on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, in San Antonio. There were just a few hundred coronavirus cases when Congress first started focusing on emergency spending in early March. By the end of that month, as Congress passed the massive $2.2 trillion Cares Act, cases skyrocketed above 100,000 and deaths climbed past 2,000. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Nearly $500 million in coronavirus payments to dead people still outstanding: Audit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times