An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
The executive branch is allowed to move money appropriated by Congress from one agency to another within a department, and this Trump administration would not be the first to do so in order to make up for an ICE budget shortfall.
The New London academy had prioritized diversity, equity and inclusion as part of the Coast Guard's recruitment and retention efforts.
The commandant of the US Coast Guard has been removed from her position over “leadership deficiencies” and “operational failures,” a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.
Trump fired some top officials and ended DEI programs, but experts say it’s unlikely those actions affected the operations of the aircraft
President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while eliminating all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.
It’s one of the more obviously flawed ideas embraced by both President Donald Trump and his right-hand man Elon Musk: That government should be run like a business.
Linda Fagan, the first female admiral of the U.S. Coast Guard, was dismissed by the Trump administration on Monday without explanation.
The first woman to lead a branch of the US Armed Forces has been sacked by Donald Trump for excessively focusing on diversity policies while neglecting border security. Adml Linda Fagan, who Joe Biden appointed to lead the US Coast Guard in 2022, was relieved of her duties by acting secretary of homeland security Benjamine Huffman.
The Trump administration has ousted the Coast Guard’s top admiral ... her duties as commandant by Benjamine Huffman, President Donald Trump’s interim homeland security secretary.
The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.
Emergency teams will continue efforts to retrieve the bodies of those who died when a passenger jet and helicopter collided.