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Democrats outline planned DHS oversight priorities

Axios reports that Bennie Thompson, the senior Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee and a candidate to chair it, said he would prioritize reviews of deaths in DHS custody or during arrests, agency spending and ICE use-of-force incidents. The proposed agenda also includes detention expansion and purchases, including a luxury aircraft purchase by former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and a whistleblower complaint about agent training. It includes an alleged financial conflict involving former adviser Corey Lewandowski, who has long denied wrongdoing. These are planned lines of inquiry, not findings or formal investigations already underway. DHS counsel rejected the prospective inquiries as political conduct and said the department was prepared; a White House spokesperson called potential inquiries “sham investigations.”

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