Senate passes budget plan for ICE and Border Patrol in bid to reopen Homeland Security Department
The Senate voted to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections. Congress – Federal News Network
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Bill to fund Homeland Security fails again as concern grows about airport lines
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Read More...Battles Are Raging Inside the Department of Homeland Security
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared before a bank of television cameras in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night to blame the man who had been shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis that morning for his own death, claiming without evidence that he had intended “to kill law enforcement” and had been “brandishing” a weapon. Behind her stood the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, sending a silent message of…
Read More...4 House Republicans Vie to Replace Green as Homeland Security Panel Chairman
Rep. Mark Green’s sudden retirement from Congress has left a major job opening for his fellow Republicans—replacing the Tennessean as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Now, with President Donald Trump in office, chairing the committee that deals with immigration issues on a daily basis is an attractive post. On Monday night, the House Republican Steering Committee will elect the next chairman, to replace Green, whose resignation became official Sunday. The following are the four Republicans vying for the job. Clay Higgins of Louisiana Higgins, who currently serves…
Read More...Swords are drawn for the Homeland Security Department’s IG
The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General, Joseph Cuffari, is hanging onto his job by a thread. He acknowledge in a hearing that he has deleted messages from his government cell phone, which at least two members of Congress say is a violation of federal records laws. They want him to resign. For the latest, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Mitchell Miller, WTOP’s Capitol Hill correspondent. Interview Transcript: Mitchell Miller Well, the latest is that Democrats had held off for quite a while on actually calling for his resignation.…
Read More...6 Takeaways as House Republicans Accuse Homeland Security Chief of ‘Intentional’ Border Crisis
House Republicans pressed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for answers Thursday as every sign appeared to point to a rising surge of illegal immigrants trying to cross the southern border. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, agents last month logged over 221,000 “encounters” with illegal aliens along the border, a 33% jump from February. In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Mayorkas argued that the situation at the border is under “operational control,” as the law requires. Republicans on the committee repeatedly rejected this claim, pointing to the huge…
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