Biden administration pleads for WMD office’s salvation (Government Executive, October 19, 2023): “The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office within DHS is set to see its authorization expire Dec. 21, five years after Congress codified it. The office maintains an annual budget of $400 million and works closely with DHS components, as well as state and local law enforcement, to help them detect and prepare for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. It conducts large-scale procurements and has 56,000 personal radiological devices in the field that assist in detection, including 40,000 within DHS and 16,000 at state and local entities. It also maintains larger devices that go into trucks, SUVs, planes and boats that can detect any nuclear material in an area, which DHS deploys for major events like the Super Bowl or the upcoming Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.”
LawmakersAre Trying Again to Move the Secret Service Back to the Treasury Department (Government Executive, May 10, 2022): “The Secret Service, established in 1865, was originally under the Treasury Department. It was then moved to the Homeland Security Department after that department was created in 2003 in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.”
