For now, Pentagon and DHS won't recommend that Trump invoke the Insurrection Act

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Published 4:25 PM EDT, Fri April 18, 2025


Washington CNN — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will not recommend invoking the Insurrection Act in a memo the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to send to President Donald Trump about the conditions at the southern border, multiple US officials familiar with the matter tell CNN.

The Insurrection Act is a 19th century law that would allow the president to use active-duty troops within the United States to perform law enforcement functions such as arresting migrants. Trump issued an executive order in January declaring an emergency at the southern border that ordered Hegseth and Noem to send him a report within 90 days about the conditions there, and advising whether to invoke the Insurrection Act to help obtain “complete operational control” of the border.

The deadline for Hegseth and Noem’s recommendation is Sunday, but the Pentagon and DHS are expected to send the memo with their findings to the White House next week, officials said.

Hegseth and Noem are expected to tell Trump that border crossings are currently low and that they don’t need additional authorities at this point to help control the flow of migrants, officials said. Migrant crossings at the US southern border have been under 300 a day, according to a Homeland Security official — a dramatic drop from recent years when unlawful crossings were well over 1,000 or more a day.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/politics/pentagon-dhs-wont-recommend-insurrection-act/index.html

[Roy Rolling]

1. Two Idiots

These are the two morons responsible for recommending the military mobilize against an insurrection?

Give me a fucking break.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Trump will likely do it anyway.

[Skittles]

3. it's like, uh oh

their primary qualification for their jobs is they are TRUMP WHORES.........Trump will not like this deviation from the boot-licking, not at ALL

[Trumpdumper]

4. There will be more cannings at DOD and DHS

Instead of doing their jobs, Hegseth and Noem will focus on finding out who leaked this decision to the media. Another Night of the Long Knives is in the offing.

[travelingthrulife]

5. So the insurrectionist will declare Insurrection act.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. i thought congresss could only authorise this?