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 Undated:  The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terrorism, border security, immigration and customs, cyber security, and disaster prevention and management.[3] It was created in response to the September 11 attacks and is the youngest U.S. cabinet department.

In fiscal year 2017, it was allocated a net discretionary budget of $40.6 billion.[2] With more than 240,000 employees,[4] DHS is the third largest Cabinet department, after the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.[5] Homeland security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council. Other agencies with significant homeland security responsibilities include the Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security

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Undated: In January 2017, the president announced a series of Executive Orders that provide the Department with additional resources, tools and personnel to carry out the critical work of securing our borders, enforcing our immigration laws, and ensuring that individuals who pose a threat to national security or public safety cannot enter or remain in our country. Protecting the American people is the highest priority of our government and this Department.
https://www.dhs.gov/executive-orders-protecting-homeland


March 23: Trump's Unbalanced Homeland Security Budget

The president prioritized border security and immigration enforcement in his blueprint, but it risks coming at the expense of other equally important priorities.

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Indeed, paying for border security and interior enforcement by cutting funds to the Transportation Security Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency, and capping investments in agencies like the United States Secret Service and the United States Coast Guard is akin to double-locking your front door, but leaving your side door open—and your windows, and your garage door, and turning off your alarm.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/trump-budget-department-of-homeland-security/520512/


July 28: Hours After North Korea Missile Launch, Trump Reassigns Homeland Security Chief
http://fortune.com/2017/07/28/north-korea-missile-trump-homeland-security/

July 28: Trump names Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as White House chief of staff, ousting Reince Priebus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/28/trump-names-homeland-security-secretary-john-kelly-as-white-house-chief-of-staff-ousting-reince-priebus/?utm_term=.f177ad03343c


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August 1:  ... former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was sworn in as chief of staff at 9:30 a.m. ET [on Monday, July 31], and by mid-afternoon, communications director Anthony Scaramucci was ousted just days after he joined the Trump team.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/01/politics/ivanka-trump-reset-kelly-scaramucci/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

September 1: A month after former Homeland Security secretary John Kelly decamped for the White House, President Donald Trump has yet to formally interview any potential candidates to replace the retired general as the head of the department.

Though White House aides have whittled the contenders down to a final shortlist, it could be weeks before Trump finalizes his choice, according to a senior administration official and a homeland security expert familiar with the conversations.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/01/trump-homeland-security-kelly-242226

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October 19: Homeland Security sees power grow under Trump

Homeland Security, established just 15 years ago after the Sept. 11 attacks, has enjoyed greater visibility and influence as Trump has pledged to establish “law and order” and build a wall at the southern border.

The department has been given the lead on implementing Trump’s most controversial and prominent policy moves, including the president’s executive orders barring certain travelers from entering the country.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/356131-homeland-security-sees-power-grow-under-trump


October 19: Department of Homeland Security press secretary David Lapan, the voice of the department and a longtime colleague of White House chief of staff John Kelly, is leaving the Trump administration...

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Lapan began telling people this week of his move to the private sector, a source familiar with his plans said. In confirming the news, Lapan said he would be joining the Bipartisan Policy Center as senior director of communications and public affairs at the end of the month.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/david-lapan-dhs-spokesman/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist


December 6: The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Kirstjen Nielsen as the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, installing a close confidant of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to lead the federal agency responsible for carrying out many of President Trump's most ambitious domestic policy plans. 

Nielsen, 45, developed a reputation for fierce devotion to Kelly as his deputy at the White House and before that as his chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, which he ran from January until July. 

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An attorney and cybersecurity expert, Nielsen will be the first DHS secretary with previous experience working at the agency. Her confirmation Tuesday gives the White House a DHS chief well versed in the politics and policy goals of Trump's immigration enforcement agenda. 
http://www.myajc.com/news/senate-confirms-kirstjen-nielsen-top-white-house-aide-lead-homeland-security/hKjKGZ0Sf3hiFrjPL3URYP/

December 18: Today, the President released a bold vision for our nation’s security and outlined how we will defend our homeland by putting America first. Our highest responsibility as a government is to protect our people, and the President’s strategy makes it clear we will do that by implementing sweeping security enhancements covering cyberspace and our borders. The strategy also makes clear that homeland security extends beyond our territory, which is why we will pursue threats to their source—whether they are from terrorist groups or transnational criminal organizations.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/12/18/secretary-nielsen-s-statement-president-trump-s-national-security-strategy

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Undated: The National Homeland Security Association is pleased to partner with the city of New York, New York to host the 12th annual National Homeland Security Conference July 9 - 12, 2018 at the beautiful Sheraton Hotel in Midtown New York City.  The Sheraton is just steps away from the site of the Host Social at Rockefeller Center and other New York City attractions including Times Square and Central Park.
http://www.cvent.com/events/national-homeland-security-conference-2018/event-summary-9f8060e06a5d4ca09433b214ea0a0257.aspx

January 8: Today, the Secretary of Homeland Security [
Kirstjen M. Nielsen] announced her determination that termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El Salvador was required pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act. To allow for an orderly transition, she has determined to delay the termination for 18 months. The designation will terminate on Sept. 9, 2019.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/01/08/secretary-homeland-security-kirstjen-m-nielsen-announcement-temporary-protected

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March 1: How the D.H.S. Secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, Became One of President Trump’s Fiercest Loyalists
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-dhs-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-became-one-of-president-trumps-fiercest-loyalists

April 10: John Bolton pushes out Tom Bossert as homeland security adviser
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/politics/tom-bossert-homeland-security-adviser/index.html

May 10: Kirstjen Nielsen, Chief of Homeland Security, Almost Resigned After Trump Tirade
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/us/politics/trump-homeland-security-secretary-resign.html


May 11: President Donald Trump unloaded on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a heated cabinet meeting this week, railing against her for failing to stop illegal border crossings.

Trump, who has growing increasingly frustrated by a spike in apprehensions at the border and other legal setbacks, blamed Nielsen Wednesday for failing to do enough to stop them, according to people familiar with the exchange.

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Nielsen, one person said, tried to explain the issues were complex and that the department's powers were limited by a slew of legal restrictions. She told the president her team was doing everything it could, but the president was left unconvinced.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/11/donald-trump-kirstjen-nielsen-immigration-border-security/601271002/

May 11:
Advisers bad-mouth Nielsen as a ‘never Trumper’

The president, who demands the loyalty of his aides, is increasingly disenchanted with his homeland security chief.

She’s the latest senior administration official to bear the brunt of the president’s obsession with keeping “never Trump” Republicans out of his administration, a preoccupation that hobbled efforts to recruit appointees to the State Department and National Security Council early in Trump’s presidency because of the number of experienced George W. Bush administration alumni who signed letters opposing him during the campaign.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/11/kirstjen-nielsen-never-trumper-white-house-loyalty-583914

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September 5: Hacking, cyber-attacks now the biggest threat to U.S., Trump’s Homeland Security chief warns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/

November 12: Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-is-preparing-to-remove-kirstjen-nielsen-as-homeland-security-secretary-aides-say/2018/11/12/77111496-e6b0-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d66cefc38d7e

December 6: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, suggesting she doesn’t see a resolution to the partisan impasse over border wall funding, said Thursday she’d like to see the Department of Homeland Security funded on a continuing resolution through the remainder of fiscal 2019.

Seven of the 12 annual appropriations bills, including the DHS measure, are currently running on a continuing resolution that expires Friday. The House and Senate Thursday passed another stopgap to extend the funding deadline to Dec. 21. 

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Pelosi said her preferred solution for meeting the new deadline is for Congress to pass the six appropriations bills that appropriators have agreement on with a continuing resolution for the DHS measure.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/pelosi-pass-funding-bills-delay-homeland-security-funding 


December 3: Homeland Security chief Nielsen has saved her job — for now

The embattled DHS secretary, recently said to be on the brink of ouster, may now survive well into 2019.

On the verge of firing by a president who has said she isn’t a strong enough defender of the U.S.-Mexico border, Nielsen has adopted — and made sure to publicize — a tough stance in response to the caravan of Central American migrants headed toward the U.S. that Trump turned into a major midterm campaign issue. She has visited the southern border three times since October and recently hailed Trump as a forceful “leader.”

The firm posture seems to have impressed her most important audience: the president.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/03/nielsen-trump-migrant-caravan-1041327


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