5. Department of Homeland Security · Minor
Fulfill outstanding congressional inquiries and public information requests
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“The Secretary should use his or her inherent authority as leader of the department to follow up with congressional and other partners to disclose information and provide the transparency that has been obstructed during the Biden Administration. The Secretary should proceed from the assumption that congressional inquiries and public information requests were unfulfilled and then seek to fulfill them.”
What has happened
- Not started
No allowlisted record of DHS reviewing and fulfilling the previous administration's outstanding congressional inquiries and public information requests was found. The department's transparency posture in the window has been contested in the other direction, but nothing read here documents either the sweep the Quote asks for or a refusal.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Instrument sought: a DHS statement, FOIA log or congressional-affairs directive showing a systematic effort to fulfill outstanding inquiries and information requests.
Searched 2026-08-28: presidential documents, final rules, proposed rules and notices in the Federal Register from DHS and its components; bills in Congress and public laws, from congress.gov; White House presidential actions; and federal court dockets (CourtListener), including a bulk snapshot of 1.2 million dockets. Nothing was found. DHS’s FOIA annual reports are the natural evidence and were not read.
- Action
- other
- Object
- unfulfilled congressional inquiries and public information requests
- ID
- 293