Around a quarter of Department of Homeland Security leadership positions are vacant or filled by acting officials.
Obama-era Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she doesn't know who speaks for the department as senior positions remain vacant or filled with acting personnel amid the COVID-19 pandemic.that having"consistency in your leadership team" was important and suggested the Trump administration"hasn't sustained that" as it seeks to curb the spread of the coronavirus..
In a release published Wednesday, the department announced that it researching methods to prevent the virus's spread. The department's Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli made headlines at the end of February when he asked Twitter if anyone had trouble accessing Johns Hopkins University's COVID-19 tracker, causing people to question why the member of President Trump's coronavirus task force did not have access to data on the virus's spread.Clean hands frequently with soap and water, or alcohol-based hand rub.
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