As Trump Mulls Firing The Head Of DHS, The Agency’s Second Top Role Is Already Empty
Government Executive | November 26, 2018
The Homeland Security Department hasn’t had a deputy secretary since April. Now it doesn’t even have an acting deputy secretary. Claire Grady, the career civil servant who had been doing the job on an interim basis after Elaine Duke stepped down, was officially taken off the role last week, the agency recently informed Congress. She had already served the 210-day limit on acting officers set by the federal Vacancies Act, a measure designed to put pressure on presidents to promptly nominate permanent staff.