Homeland Security Chief Fails to Reassure Congress, American People on Coronavirus

At a time of heightened national public health concern surging from a pandemic preoccupying the minds of people across our nation and the globe, the full-blown ignorance of Acting Director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chad Wolf was on display in Congress yesterday.

When Wolf was unable to answer basic questions about the pandemic, Republican Senator John Kennedy called out Wolf’s negligence and unpreparedness on the issue: “You’re head of Homeland Security, and your job is to keep us safe…Don’t you think you ought to check on that, as the head of Homeland Security?”

Wolf and the leadership at DHS are disregarding America’s safety because they are focused on diverting funds to build a wall, separating families, deporting refugees, and endangering those fleeing danger by sending them to Mexico and Central America without a fair hearing.

The incompetence at DHS was also on display yesterday when Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli was scouring the internet for CDC data and turning to a Johns Hopkins map and Twitter for his sources, only to be turned down by a member paywall. For someone second-in-command of our homeland security agency, the notion of turning to Twitter and outside websites for information he should have in front of him, is not only absurd, it is downright terrifying.

According to Executive Director of America’s Voice Frank Sharry: