It was housed under the Treasury until 2003, when it was transferred to the new Department of Homeland Security. “The biggest challenge has been the president’s immigration focus,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, the head of the House Homeland Security Committee, told the AP. Deppisch said she feared the news could be a blow to other non-immigration agencies at Homeland Security, specifically the newly formed Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, tasked with election security. A feasibility study was completed last year from a working group of Homeland Security, the Treasury and the White House, and the results found that moving the Secret Service would help enhance collaboration in the Treasury and would put the Secret Service back on the map as a large law enforcement agency, though it could harm morale at Homeland Security. “DHS employees, members of Congress and staff, the homeland security committee — may perceive a weakened DHS with the loss of Secret Service,” the working group wrote in the report.

Source: thestar February 07, 2020 18:11 UTC