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As of May 15, 2024, there are 5137 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 412 of these are priority recommendations, those that we believe warrant priority attention. Learn more about our priority designation on our Recommendations page.

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Financial Management: Additional Steps Needed to Improve ICE's Budget Projections and Execution

GAO-24-106550
Jeff Arkin
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9 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Director of ICE should ensure that ICE's Program Analysis and Evaluation division periodically assesses ICE's budget models. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of DHS should ensure that DHS reviews ICE's budget models in accordance with its policies. (Recommendation 2)
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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Director of ICE should ensure that OBPP verifies that ICE program offices follow ICE's policy to have spend plans in place at the beginning of the fiscal year. (Recommendation 3)
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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Director of ICE should clarify ICE's policies and guidance on spend plan updates to specify under what conditions program office spend plans should be updated. (Recommendation 4)
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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Director of ICE should ensure that OBPP verifies that ICE program offices follow ICE's policy on updating spend plans. (Recommendation 5)
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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Director of ICE should ensure that OBBP verifies that the ICE-wide and program office spend plans are updated to be consistent with each other. (Recommendation 6)
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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Director of ICE should implement changes to the PER briefing documents to include information that communicates to Congress potential reprogramming and transfers as the need for them becomes apparent to ICE. (Recommendation 7)
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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Director of ICE should implement changes to the PER briefing documents to include ICE's initial budget projections in addition to updated projections. (Recommendation 8)
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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Director of ICE should develop and document a plan to address OBPP's staffing challenges and obtain ICE leadership's endorsement of the plan. The plan could include the following elements: (1) strategies for acquiring and retaining staff, (2) OBPP's goals for improving its staffing, and (3) a description of how OBPP will track progress toward those goals. (Recommendation 9)
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Military Child Care: Services Should Assess Their Employee Retention Efforts

GAO-24-106524
Kathy Larin
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7 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should direct the Commandant of the Marine Corps to develop and implement a Marine Corps Child and Youth Program strategic workforce plan to document its human capital goals and strategies. This plan should include strategies and activities to address staffing needs as well as elements to ensure the Marine Corps is able to monitor and evaluate progress toward its goals. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should direct the Commandant of the Marine Corps to develop metrics to track the effectiveness of its child care program retention initiatives. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should direct the Commandant of the Marine Corps to conduct a needs assessment of its child care workforce to inform future workforce planning. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Navy improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by developing metrics to track the effectiveness of its child care program retention initiatives. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by developing metrics to track the effectiveness of its child care program retention initiatives. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should ensure that the Air Force improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by conducting a needs assessment of its child care workforce to inform future workforce planning. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should ensure that the Army improves upon its strategic workforce planning efforts by developing metrics to track the effectiveness of its child care program retention initiatives. (Recommendation 7)
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Southwest Border: CBP Could Take Additional Steps to Strengthen Its Response to Incidents Involving Its Personnel

GAO-24-106148
Rebecca S. Gambler
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
U.S. Border Patrol The Chief of Border Patrol should develop and implement guidance that standardizes sector approaches to responding to noncritical incidents and documenting these response activities. (Recommendation 1)
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U.S. Border Patrol The Chief of Border Patrol should regularly monitor sector noncritical incident response activities to ensure they adhere to the guidance. (Recommendation 2)
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United States Customs and Border Protection The Commissioner of CBP should ensure that OPR develops guidance for investigators on identifying potential impairments to their investigative independence and when and how to take action regarding any such impairments. (Recommendation 3)
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United States Customs and Border Protection The Commissioner of CBP should ensure that OPR trains investigators on how to apply the guidance on the independence standard, once developed, to their investigative work. (Recommendation 4)
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