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United States 7th Secretary of Homeland Security
Two distinct threads in American history answer whether the Senate can try cabinet officials who have already left office: the 1876 impeachment and trial of Secretary of War William Belknap, where the...
The question asks for annual counts of "removals and returns" under the Biden administration for 2021–2025; the federal statistics distinguish between ICE removals (formal removals executed by ICE) an...
Public records show multiple congressional subpoenas seeking documents from Gov. Tim Walz and his administration over the Feeding Our Future pandemic fraud; House Education and the Workforce Chair Rep...
Since 2017, enforcement priorities were driven first by the Trump administration’s February 20, 2017 DHS memorandum (implementing Executive Order 13768) that broadly narrowed prosecutorial discretion ...
The Biden-era DHS memoranda of 2021–2022 reoriented enforcement toward case-by-case prioritization and prosecutorial discretion, instituting a 100‑day pause on many removals and consolidating guidance...
A secretary of defense can be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives by the same constitutional mechanism that applies to other “civil officers”: the House approves articles of impeachment by ...
President Biden’s policy decisions were guided by a blend of traditional cabinet secretaries—who ran agencies and executed policy—and a tight circle of White House senior staff and advisors who coordi...
ICE was created in 2003 and its budget rose from about $3.51 billion in 2003 to roughly $9.99 billion in 2024, reflecting growing federal investment in interior enforcement . Enforcement priorities ha...
Under Alejandro Mayorkas in 2021, DHS issued new enforcement guidance that reoriented priorities toward threats to national security, public safety, and border security and emphasized prosecutorial di...