“Nobody in the emergency management arena, Republican or Democrat, ever expected DHS to enact some of the policy regulations that were enacted,” Guthrie said. “That did slow the process down.” But Guthrie said he believes changes recently enacted by newly appointed DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin will relieve the disaster recovery funding bottleneck. Many of those changes had been recommended to DHS by Guthrie and other members of the federal FEMA Review Council.