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McMaster calls on South Carolina lawmakers to return for redistricting special session #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5Bjin

Comey says he 'never' considered asking Biden for preemptive pardon #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5BjjA

Senate panel clears crypto bill #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5Bjgd

House Ethics investigates sexual harassment claims against Chuck Edwards  #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5Bjhk

Trump and Xi's initial meeting reveals dueling priorities #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5Bjgt

Additional money for Iran conflict faces challenges, GOP senators warn #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5BjeP

SCOTUS preserves abortion pill access — for now  #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5BjeQ

Fetterman: Democratic base becoming 'increasingly anti-American' #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5Bjdw

Comey says Trump seems 'off' compared to 2017 #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5BjfG

Supreme Court preserves abortion pill access over Alito, Thomas dissents  #TheHill https://twp.ai/E5Bjd1

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Restoring DHS: Bipartisan roots and public trust – The Hill

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Return the Homeland Security Department to its bipartisan roots

by Jane Harman, opinion contributor – 01/31/26 11:00 AM ET

In the early evening of Sept. 11, 2001, I stood with my colleagues on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and sang “God Bless America.” In that moment, we were not Democrats or Republicans. We were just Americans, determined to respond to all that had happened and ensure such an attack would never happen again. That bipartisan resolve produced two of the most significant reforms in a generation: the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence. I was one of the legislators who helped design them.

Today, the Department of Homeland Security is facing a grave crisis, with its enforcement agencies having killed two American citizens in Minneapolis this month. Public confidence in Homeland Security has collapsed, and congressional support for its embattled secretary, Kristi Noem, is eroding by the day.

A fight over Homeland Security funding brought the government to the brink of shutdown before a tentative two-week deal was reached Thursday but the fundamental crisis remains unresolved.

The solution is for the Department of Homeland Security to return to its bipartisan roots and embrace its mission of protecting America, rather than pursuing an agenda that has shattered public trust and caused the agency to drift from its core purpose.

The 9/11 Commission identified catastrophic failures that made the attacks possible. Intelligence agencies hoarded information. The CIA tracked two hijackers to Malaysia but never told the FBI they had entered the U.S. All 19 hijackers had entered on legal visas, many with applications containing detectable false statements. The verdict was damning: We had failed to connect the dots.

The Department of Homeland Security was one of two major reforms to ensure these failures would not be repeated. Immigration enforcement was placed within the new department because it is a national security function. The reforms were hard-fought, but we worked through our disagreements. The Senate passed the final legislation 90-9.

For more than two decades, the department operated as we intended, above partisan politics. Michael Chertoff was confirmed as secretary 98-0. Leaders were apolitical, chosen for competence. The work was sometimes uneven, but it was professional. And by the measure that matters most, it succeeded: there has been no catastrophic terrorist attack on American soil.

That tradition has now been abandoned. According to the Cato Institute, nearly three-quarters of those detained by ICE have no criminal conviction. Only 5 percent have been convicted of a violent crime. The administration promised to deport “the worst of the worst.” Instead, ICE has shifted resources away from violent offenders toward mass arrests that generate headlines but do not make Americans safer.

Meanwhile, the department’s attention has drifted from its core mission. Its own threat assessment warns that China, Russia and Iran continue to target our critical infrastructure. The intelligence community has warned that ISIS is attempting high-profile attacks in the West. These threats have not gone away just because we have chosen to focus elsewhere.

The other institution born from Sept. 11 — the Director of National Intelligence — faces a parallel crisis. Tulsi Gabbard was apparently excluded from planning the operation that removed Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. Her appearance this week at an FBI raid on a Georgia elections office raised serious questions about how the nation’s “Joint Commander” over 16 intelligence agencies is spending her time. The solution to both crises is the same: restore bipartisan consensus and apolitical leadership.

Two things must happen. First, the department needs new leadership committed to professional standards and public trust. Second, Congress must come together on reforms. To move past the current funding impasse, Democrats have proposed reasonable steps: body cameras, visible identification, clear rules on the use of force, independent investigations, and reporting requirements for how the agency spends public money. These reforms matter. But the most important thing the department can do to restore trust is to get out of politics.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Restoring DHS: Bipartisan roots and public trust

Bill Cassidy raises concerns over ICE, DHS credibility after Minneapolis shooting – The Hill

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Saturday expressed concern about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) reputation following another fatal shooting in Minnesota.

“The events in Minneapolis are incredibly disturbing. The credibility of ICE and DHS are at stake. There must be a full joint federal and state investigation. We can trust the American people with the truth,” Cassidy said Saturday in a post on the social platform X.

A high-ranking Minnesota public safety official said Saturday that his agency was blocked from participating in any federal investigation into the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti, noting that “we’re in uncharted territory.”

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Superintendent Drew Evans said that after the FBI left the scene Saturday, BCA agents sought to begin their own investigation but were “unable to hold that scene, and it got run over by protesters, and we were not able to reexamine that scene.”

He added that BCA was denied access to the scene at a later time, and that after they obtained a signed search warrant, state agents were still not permitted to enter the area. 

The Hill has reached out to DHS for comment.

Cassidy’s comments follow weeks of tension in Minnesota over President Trump’s immigration agenda, which escalated in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer earlier this month.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Bill Cassidy raises concerns over ICE, DHS credibility after Minneapolis shooting

Democrats seek to rein in ICE, Noem after fatal Minneapolis shooting – The Hill

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Democrats seek to rein in ICE, Noem after fatal Minneapolis shooting

by Mike Lillis and Rebecca Beitsch – 01/10/26 5:00 PM ET

The growing uproar over Wednesday’s fatal shooting by a U.S. immigration officer in Minneapolis is spreading quickly on Capitol Hill, where a chorus of Democrats in both chambers are launching a blitz of proposals to rein in President Trump’s surge of federal forces in blue regions around the country.

Democrats are pushing a wide range of responses, including efforts to suspend all Minnesota operations of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately; end qualified immunity for ICE officers more broadly; and call Kristi Noem, the head of the Homeland Security Department (DHS), to testify before Congress.

Still others want to go a long step further and impeach Noem, who has characterized the victim of the shooting, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good, as a domestic terrorist who sought to harm federal law enforcers in Minneapolis.

“The murder of Renee Macklin Good is a tragic episode in a story of harm and destruction orchestrated by Secretary Noem and ICE that must not be tolerated anywhere,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) said Friday in a statement supporting her impeachment.

Democrats have few tools at their disposal, given their minority status in both chambers. But they’ve been encouraged by a series of recent victories on other hot-button issues — including an extension of ObamaCare subsidies and the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files — which required a buildup of public pressure to win bipartisan support. Some Democrats are ready to launch a similar full-court press in the effort to restrain ICE. 

“You’ve got to take advantage of any leverage that you have,” Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) said. “People are coming up with as many creative ideas in making use [of that leverage].” 

One area where Democrats do maintain influence pertains to government spending. Congress this month is racing to adopt three appropriations packages ahead of a Jan. 30 shutdown deadline. One of those packages will include funding for the DHS, and some Democrats want to withhold their support for that bill to demand new limits on Trump’s deportation forces nationwide.

“We should not be giving money for an increase in the ICE budget,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Friday. “We should be fighting this.”

Specifically, many Democrats want to adopt new rules for federal immigration officers, including a ban on face masks and a requirement that they show warrants prior to arrests. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is expected to unveil legislation promoting those changes, and House Democrats are already jumping on board.

“In many ways they’ve become lawless at this point,” one House Democrat said Friday, requesting anonymity to discuss the strategy. “No search warrants. Masks. Refusing to tell people why they’re being picked up. Deporting people to places without telling their family. You can’t have that.”

Those efforts are being cheered by liberal activists off of Capitol Hill, but they’re also creating new challenges for Democratic leaders who just won a big victory on health care, with the House’s passage of the ObamaCare subsidies, and want to focus squarely on the issue of affordability heading into November’s midterms. 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has called the Minneapolis shooting “an abomination,” saying there is no evidence to support the official claims that the federal officer was justified in using deadly force against Macklin Good. 

“Blood is clearly on the hands of those individuals within the administration who’ve been pushing an extreme policy that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement connected to removing violent felons from this country,” Jeffries told reporters this week. 

But he has also declined to endorse any of the strongest proposals being floated from within his own caucus, including the notion of holding up DHS funding to win policy concessions. Instead, he’s said only that Democrats will discuss “a strong and forceful and appropriate legislative response” in the coming days. 

Others aren’t waiting that long. 

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said there have been discussions both about ways to target ICE funding but also on whether to include “riders” that could prohibit the agency from using funds for certain activities. 

“We are going to continue to press, and I think there is a pathway to accountability through the appropriations process. I believe we should use that. And I think there are lots of different ways of going about it. I’m not necessarily sure which one, but I expect that this will become an issue during the appropriations process,” Goldman told The Hill.

“There’s always the possibility of some degree of funding, but it’s also — you could put a rider in about restrictions or conditions … using funding to say that you can say no funding can be used for X, Y or Z.”

House Democrats have previously had success with similar measures. In one such rider, they barred the use of any funds to restrict lawmakers from making unannounced visits to detention centers. When the Department of Homeland Security tried to change its visitation policy, lawmakers sued and won. 

Goldman alongside Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) also introduced a bill to end qualified immunity for ICE officers.

The officer who killed Macklin Good can face prosecution. But such cases are often an uphill battle because the standard for evaluating excessive force cases largely rests on whether officers felt their lives were threatened.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Democrats seek to rein in ICE, Noem after fatal Minneapolis shooting

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Another Reason ICE Needs to Drop the Masks

Former surgeons general condemn Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health policies – The Hill

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Former surgeons general: RFK Jr. actions ‘endangering the health of the nation’

by Max Rego – 10/08/25 3:57 PM ET

Six former surgeons general criticized Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Tuesday op-ed in The Washington Post.

Editor’s Note: I recommend reading also the WP article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/07/surgeons-general-rfk-jr-robert-kennedy/

“The actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation,” the group said. “Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

The former surgeons general behind the op-ed were Vivek Murthy, Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, David Satcher, Joycelyn Elders and Antonia Novello. Murthy, Elders and Satcher were appointed by Democratic presidents, while Adams, Carmona and Novello were appointed by Republican presidents. 

In their op-ed, the former surgeons general said that under Kennedy, the “foundations of our nation’s public health system have been undermined.” They specifically criticized the HHS secretary’s longstanding claims that childhood vaccines are linked to autism, his handling of measles outbreaks throughout the country, his recommendation against pregnant women taking Tylenol and his upheaval of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory panel. 

In June, Kennedy removed all 17 members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), saying it was necessary to restore trust in vaccines. Kennedy has since replaced those panel members with individuals who have expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The ACIP’s recommendations must be approved by the CDC director before being implemented. In August, Kennedy removed former Director Susan Monarez from the post after just weeks on the job. Monarez later said she refused to preapprove the committee’s decisions.

On Monday, the CDC accepted the ACIP’s recommendation that individuals receive the COVID-19 vaccine after consulting with a health provider. Later in the day, acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill called on vaccine manufacturers to split up the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots, taking the same stance as President Trump.

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