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

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

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

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Jake Tapper and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN
2 minute read
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.

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

[bucolic_frolic]

1. so when the beast is unleashed it won't be Trump's fault! It will be Noem and Hegseth

Who the hell is running this clown fest?

[sop]

2. They're biding their time, waiting for the appropriate Reichstag Fire opportunity to act.

[kimbutgar]

3. That means they are making plans for it

I don’t believe anything that comes out of this administration.

A bunch of lying evil BS con people !

[NCDem47]

4. "For now"

The Orange One will blow all of that up in a New York minute by one of his social posts regardless of what they say.

I suspect the powers that be watched what happened with the markets with all the tariff yo-yoing. One would think the Insurarection Actw would absolutely put a final dagger into the economy. It really is the nuclear option. Please, someone educate me if I have this wrong.

[dweller]

5. I suspect the Pisswig's response will be

✌🏻

[Silent Type]

6. That is good news, hope it lasts. Never should have been proposed/considered.

[Irish_Dem]

7. When the Hand's Off protests get too big and won't stop, time for the Insurrection Act.

Trump will shut the down by jailing or shooting people.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Trump will see today's nation-wide protests and call it insurrection. Just wait and see.

Stephen Miller will have the last word on this.

Not even Trump takes Hegseth and Noem seriously.