WASHINGTON -- It took only 24 hours after President Donald Trump attacked New York City in his State of the Union address for the president's man at the Department of Homeland Security to act.Chad Wolf had joined the department nearly two decades before as a midlevel staff member to help the sprawling
WASHINGTON — It took only 24 hours after President Donald Trump attacked New York City in his State of the Union address for the president’s man at the Department of Homeland Security to act.
That false statement came at a pivotal turn of Wolf’s long ascent at the department he now heads. His initial post at the federal government’s newly created Transportation Security Administration, within the Department of Homeland Security, was aimed at stopping terrorists from again exploiting the nation’s commercial aviation industry to kill Americans.
At the time, Congress believed broadly that a single department was needed to improve communication between national security agencies and state and local governments to prevent another terrorist attack, and it set out to enact the largest reorganization of the federal government since the Truman administration restructured the military in 1947.
Alexei Woltornist, a spokesman for the department, rejected that it was “punishing cities led by Democrats.” The Department of Homeland Security has struggled with its identity since its creation. James Loy, the first head of the Transportation Security Administration, recalled that “it was a patchwork quilt kind of thing.”
After Kirstjen Nielsen became homeland security secretary in December 2017, she tapped Wolf to be her chief of staff. Before he was made acting secretary, Wolf was more of a behind-the-scenes operator than a public defender of Trump. In September 2019, Wolf refused to go on Fox News to speak on the department’s efforts to crack down on terrorism because the host might ask about the administration’s immigration agenda, according to a former administration official.
Senate-confirmed officials “have a certain ability to push back a little bit in a firm and polite way,” Chertoff said. Now at the department, he said, the leadership “will basically never be nominated.”Wolf is stepping into the spotlight in ways his predecessors would not, including by now being a frequent visitor of the conservative television shows that Trump follows.
Wolf’s suspension of New Yorkers from Trusted Traveler Programs like Global Entry prompted more than dozen meetings with New York state officials. Wolf often let Cuccinelli press Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his staff to modify the state law that banned immigration enforcement agencies from gaining access to motor vehicle records, according to those familiar with the meetings.
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