6. Department of State · Minor
Let DHS retain or regain C-175 authority for security agreements
Printed page 178 6. Department of State
“Although the State Department must rein in the C-175 authorities of other agencies, the Department of Homeland Security should retain (or regain) C-175 authorities for negotiating bilateral and multilateral security agreements.”
What has happened
- Not started
Searched; no Circular 175 authority has been delegated to, confirmed for, or restored to the Department of Homeland Security. The Secretary of State's one C-175 instrument in the window, Delegation of Authority No. 620 (signed 2026-06-25, published 2026-07-02), delegates the C-175 authority to negotiate, conclude and terminate treaties and other international agreements only to State's own Deputy Secretaries and Under Secretaries, and revokes Delegation of Authority 311 of 2008. No other agency is mentioned. Carried as Evidence because it is the administration's own dated instrument on this object and it is silent on DHS.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search: a search of Federal Register rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents for “circular 175”, “C-175” and “112b” returns only Delegation of Authority No. 620; DHS publishes no C-175 delegation of its own; DHS’s press-release search returns nothing for “Circular 175”.
- Note that DHS has in fact been signing bilateral security and migration arrangements through the window; whether it did so under its own C-175 authority or under State’s is not stated in any allowlisted document, so it cannot carry the Status. If a delegation is published, this becomes done.
- Related: #476, the same instrument read from the other side.
- Action
- restore
- Object
- DHS Circular 175 authorities
- ID
- 483