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Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf announced his resignation Monday.
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Background: Wolf took over as acting secretary in November 2019, but did not go through the Senate confirmation process because he was not initially nominated to the cabinet-level position. A Government Accountability Office report subsequently found that Wolf’s appointment as acting secretary was unlawful in violation of agency succession rules. A number of lawsuits challenged DHS regulations, memoranda and other policies that were issued during his tenure, and a number of courts concluded that he had been appointed improperly. Eventually, President Trump formally nominated Wolf as Secretary of Homeland Security; the president withdrew the nomination last week.
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