Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday faced pushback from Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan after the secretary incorrectly said habeas corpus is the right for President Donald Trump to deport people in the United States illegally.

Noem had been testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about her department’s fiscal year 2026 budget request when she and Hassan clashed over the definition:

Hassan (D-NH): “Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus?”

Noem: “Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, and suspend their right to —”

“Let me stop you,” Hassan interjected. “That’s incorrect.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren had IRS commissioner nominee Billy Long visibly shaken with a series of questions during his confirmation hearing Tuesday regarding the legality of Trump levying the IRS against nonprofit groups he doesn’t like.

“I sent you the statute, you’ve had three weeks to talk to the lawyers about it. So let’s jump in. Mr. Long, is it illegal for the president to direct the IRS to revoke a taxpayer’s nonprofit status?”

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“Prohibits any member of the executive branch to request the IRS to conduct or terminate an audit on a taxpayer,” Long read aloud from the statue.

“Alrighty. So is it illegal?”

A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported, according to a Reuters review, potentially raising the stakes of a breach that has already drawn questions about data security in the Trump administration.

Reuters identified more than 60 unique government users of the messaging platform TeleMessage in a cache of leaked data provided by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a U.S. nonprofit whose stated mission is to archive hacked and leaked documents in the public interest. The trove included material from disaster responders, customs officials, several U.S. diplomatic staffers, at least one White House staffer and members of the Secret Service.