In 2018, the Office was created with the dual mission of preventing a Weapons of Mass Destruction attack against the United States and leading DHS's efforts to safeguard the United States against chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and health security threats.
Thompson outlines the mission of the CWMD Office established in 2018.
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There you have it. House Republicans have an hour to debate a nonbinding symbolic resolution but not even a few seconds to do the job that would actually pay our DHS workers. This is the Republican DHS shutdown.
Essentially turning them into 'jails,' which the Mississippi Democrat says would constitute a misuse of the facilities.
At a time when DHS is rightly warning about an elevated threat environment from terrorists and cartels, we should be focused on plugging security gaps rather than senselessly creating new ones.
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