When you do not submit a budget that is capable of being passed by congress, there is a little problem with those emergency spending measures they have been doing to us for the last 4 years...
There is No real congressional oversight, much less the application of the Bona Fide Need clause...
So this is the way the DHS has gotten away with this till now...The light was turned on and the cockroaches are scattering...
We still have to nail down the rifles, vehicles, and now these armored checkpoint booths that has cropped up in the last few days...
Personally I believe this exposure is all too late to do anything about...
Congress can cut off funding to the DHS and the DHS can sell its military arsenal to fund itself.