By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
So much for Made in America.
A report by the Government Accountability Office found that Homeland Security bought 46% of its uniforms from Mexico and Central America, compared to just 42% in the U.S., the Washington Times reports.
Homeland Security spent nearly $75 million over the past three years on department uniforms from Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras.
Under Homeland Security rules, the agency is supposed to buy uniforms that originated in the U.S.
The GAO said Homeland Security was aware of the requirements but ignored them.
“As of June 2017, under the current uniforms contract, 58 percent of the value of ordered uniform items by DHS came from foreign sources,” the investigation found.
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