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List of Department of Homeland Security appointments by Joe Biden
Main article: List of political appointments by Joe Biden
Below is a list of nominations and appointments to the Department of Homeland Security by Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States. As of June 2024, according to tracking by The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, 12 nominees have been confirmed, 1 nominee is being considered by the Senate, 5 positions do not have nominees, 17 appointments have been made to positions that do not require Senate confirmation, and 2 positions do not have appointees.
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Department of Homeland Security
Office of the Secretary
| Office | Nominee | Assumed office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|
— | Alejandro Mayorkas | February 2, 2021 (Confirmed February 2, 2021, 56–43) | – |
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Kristie Canegallo | July 21, 2023 | – | |
John Tien | June 24, 2021 (Confirmed June 17, 2021, 60–34) | July 20, 2023 | |
— | Jonathan Meyer | October 6, 2021 (Confirmed October 4, 2021, 51–47) | — |
Management Directorate
| Office | Nominee | Assumed office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|
— | Eric Hysen | February 1, 2021 | — |
Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans
| Office | Nominee | Assumed office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|
— | Robert P. Silvers | August 10, 2021 (Confirmed August 5, 2021 by voice vote) | — |
— Senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security The Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis is a high-level civilian official in the United States Department of Homeland Security. The Under Secretary, as head of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at DHS, is the principal staff assistant and adviser to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security for fusing law enforcement and intelligence information relating to terrorism and other critical threats. The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis is appointed by the President of the United States with the consent of the United States Senate to serve at the pleasure of the President. The Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis is the Chief Intelligence Officer for the United States Department of Homeland Security. Representing DHS within the United States Intelligence Community, the Under Secretary participates in inter-agency counter-terrorism efforts and is responsible for ensuring that state and local law enforcement officials receive information on critical threats from national-level intelligence agencies. When the position was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 along with DHS, the position was originally known as the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Information Analysis. At that time, the position was within the DHS Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate. Following a 2005 reorganization of DHS, the position was made independent, appointed DHS Chief Intelligence Officer, and renamed Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis. The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-53) was enacted on August 7, 2007 and reorganized intelligence operations at DHS, elevating the Assistant Secretary to the Under For the “first time ever,” America has a serious plan to defend its homeland, Donald Trump said on Monday (Dec. 18), before pledging again to build a wall on the Mexico border and end visa programs that have made the US a cultural melting pot. Rather than make the US more safe, though, Trump’s own obsession with immigration threatens to do the opposite, US security experts say. The threat of terrorism in the US today is as high as it was in the 9/11 era. But America’s main agency for preventing terror attacks is being misdirected, security experts, law enforcement professionals, and government officials tell Quartz. Since Trump took office, top jobs have been left unfilled at the Department of Homeland Security, and the agency is being pushed into a dangerous pattern of focusing on immigration while ignoring real threats. The issue is about to come to a head in Congress, which needs to approve DHS’s $44 billion budget (pdf) in coming weeks. Trump has proposed that DHS trim counterterrorism spending in order to fund the wall on the Mexican border, and new head Kirstjen Nielsen, who was nominated by the White House in October, is pushing his controversial anti-immigrant agenda in her first days in office. She and the White House are ignoring the US’s real risk, critics say—domestic attackers. “Individuals who live in the US, and who become inspired by what they see through social media and on the internet” pose the country’s greatest danger, said John D. Cohen, former DHS acting undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, and counter-terrorism coordinator. “These people go on to commit mass attacks, but operate independently of any terrorist group,” Cohen said. “From an ideological and resource perspective, the DHS has become overly focused, if not obsessed, with immigration and building a wall on the Southern border, to the detriment of other functions,” Cohen said, “particula |