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2027 Budget

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents use their phones near protestors at a demonstration in Newark, New Jersey May 7, 2025, outside Delaney Hall, a newly converted immigrant detention centre. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

White House pressing ICE for updates on wearable identity verification technology

Assistant Director Matthew Elliston said the smart glasses project is in the beginning stages and the agency is still looking for a vendor.
US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum testifies at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on fiscal year 2027 budget requests for the Department of Interior, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 22, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Interior still grapples with probate backlog even with AI assistance

Secretary Burgum said paper processes are preventing the agency from gaining ground, so the focus is on further digitization.
Surveillance towers stand between new sections of the primary and secondary steel bollard-style border wall along the US-Mexico border on May 10, 2021 in San Diego County, California. US-Mexico frontier. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

DHS moves forward on autonomous surveillance towers at the border

The agency has had four vendors pass an "autonomy test," Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said during a budget hearing Thursday.
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DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement in the Rayburn House Office Building on July 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

White House wants to downsize DHS inspector general office

The proposed fiscal year 2027 spending package would trim funding of the key oversight unit at a time when calls for accountability and transparency at DHS are…
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