It may be a high level, but what does accountability look like in DHS? And how do you measure whether a component is performing at that level that you and the secretary would like? What do you do

if you don't? A couple different things that you look at from an accountability perspective is – first of all, federal government, especially when you've got a budget that big, it could be really easy to make it complex.

So a little bit of my job is to help provide clarity.

So you go to the things at the highest level that mean the most.

And what would mean the most in the executive branch? The president ran on a campaign, and he made commitments in his platform that need to be accomplished.

So If we get down into micromanaging to the outcomes at super low level, the president could have his four years and not achieve his goals.

So we don't want to be the arbiter of a bunch of things that don't mean anything at the highest level, which equate to the people that voted.

I'm wondering if you could share with us, to the level you can, how is DHS prioritizing and sequencing its response across this threat landscape? What are some of the ways you think about the threats?

Is there going to be an effort, and this may be above your purview, but again, defunding these sanctuary cities, what are some things that can be done at the federal level? You know, if these sanctuary cities are not going to be cooperative with Homeland Security, do you guys have workarounds?

Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, the one thing that, you know, the president's been very focused on is using the whole of government.

You know, when we kind of go through, I mean, Homeland Security, if you look at it from the highest level, 23 different components.

We talk a lot about, you know, law enforcement, like CBP, ICE, et cetera, Secret Service.

But, you know, we also have tools out there in FEMA where we administer the, you know, a lot of the emergency declaration activity and some of the different grants that are out there that help law enforcement.

And, you know, those are areas that we've got to work with partners.

And, you know, if the Cities and the states aren't being as cooperative.

It's just insane the level of crime out there.

I was just wondering if you could share, it may be a high level, but what does accountability look like in DHS? How do you measure whether a component is performing at that level that you and the secretary would like? What do you do if you don't?

A couple different things that you look at from an accountability perspective is first of all, federal government, especially when you've got a budget that big, it could be really easy to make it complex.

So a little bit of my job is to help provide clarity.

So you go to the things at the highest level that mean the most.

And what would mean the most in the executive branch? The president ran on a campaign, and he made commitments in his platform that need to be accomplished.

So If we get down into micromanaging to the outcomes at super low level, the president could have his four years and not achieve his goals.

So we don't want to be the arbiter of a bunch of things that don't mean anything at the highest level, which equate to the people that voted.

I'm wondering if you could share with us, to the level you can, how is DHS prioritizing and sequencing its response across this threat landscape? What are some of the ways you think about the

What are some of the ways you, you think about the threats?

threats?A-a couple different ways.

I-I guess, um, you know, first of all, uh, you can have a laundry list that would be pretty big of the different types of threats.

And what our administration has done is kind of put them into some big buckets.

So one of the ways to facilitate priorities across governments or across agencies like between DHS, Department of Justice, Department of War, um, CIA, our intel side, all of that would be, um, executive orders.

So this, the president's allow-- you know, able really through the White House coordination to put their perspective in an executive order.

And a lot of people go, "Well, that's not a budget document, that's not authority," but it definitely sets a priority for the secretaries and the deputies to kind of do stuff.

What do you want, um, most for the American public who's listening to understand about what DHS does and what it takes to do it well?