Chad Wolf

U.S. officials discovered last December that federal agencies had fallen victim to a cyberespionage effort pulled off largely through a hack of SolarWinds software

A federal judge in New York City on Saturday said Chad Wolf has not been acting lawfully as the chief of Homeland Security and that, as such, his suspension of protections for a class of migrants brought to the United States illegally as children is invalid. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Trump administration wrongly tried to shut down protections...

Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Senators at his confirmation hearing that a whistleblower’s claims that senior officials meddled with the agency’s intelligence division are “patently false.” He said separate allegations that he held back a report on Russian misinformation targeting former Vice President Joe Biden are also untrue. It was...

A whistleblower complaint and a tight timeline are making it increasingly unlikely that the Senate will confirm Chad Wolf as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security before the November election

In a recent report, the Government Accountability Office said the top leaders of the Department of Homeland Security were not appointed through a legitimate process. Peter Vincent, a former DHS official, told LX News that the Trump Administration’s failure to go through the traditional process to appoint those leaders shows a “disdain for the rule of law.”

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into what they call repeated violations of the federal Hatch Act by members of the Trump administration during last month’s Republican National Convention. The 1939 law is intended to limit political activity by federal employees in their official capacity, although it does not apply to the president and vice president….

President Donald Trump says he will nominate acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf for the top spot in the agency

The top two officials at the Department of Homeland Security, acting Secretary Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary, are not legally qualified to hold those positions, a government watchdog concluded Friday. The Government Accountability Office said Wolf and Cuccinelli assumed those jobs under an order of succession that was issued by an acting...

Vice President Pence announced on Saturday that the travel restrictions from Europe will be expanded to include the U.K. and Ireland, effect Monday night at midnight. Americans abroad will still be able to return to the United States and are encouraged to return home and self-quarantine.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., presses Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf about details related the spread of COVID-19.