Homeland’s Envoy to Congress Focuses on Reconciliation, Nominees

March 24, 2025, 9:00 AM UTC

The Department of Homeland Security’s top emissary to Congress has a stack of new presidential nominees to get confirmed, dozens of committees to answer to, and a multibillion-dollar GOP budget bill to push forward.

Bradley Hayes is taking the sweeping portfolio in stride and hoping his decade of experience on Capitol Hill will help him lock in DHS’s priorities as assistant secretary for the department’s Office of Legislative Affairs.

The stakes are high as Republicans seek to include billions of dollars in border funding to support President Donald Trump‘s mass deportation agenda, using a budget reconciliation bill that faces ...

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