> I wonder what level of compartmentalisation inside DHS means they didn't see this as having sufficient downsides?

Come on, are you living under a rock right now? There are massive indiscriminate funding cuts to anything that Elon/Doge deems to be "fraud", and they explicitly do not care about the collateral damage.

This is not about the DHS or "compartmentalization". This is just a politician running amok and having real consequences.