{"id":2401408,"date":"2025-02-11T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tony-gonzales-amplifies-call-for-doge-to-investigate-dhs-to-stop-border-crisis-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T13:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:09:21","slug":"tony-gonzales-amplifies-call-for-doge-to-investigate-dhs-to-stop-border-crisis-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tony-gonzales-amplifies-call-for-doge-to-investigate-dhs-to-stop-border-crisis-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Gonzales amplifies call for DOGE to investigate DHS to stop \u2018border crisis\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftony-gonzales-amplifies-call-for-doge-to-investigate-dhs-to-stop-border-crisis-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2401408&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. \u2063Tony Gonzales (R-TX) has urged the Department of \u200cGovernment Efficiency (DOGE) to investigate the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that taxpayer dollars are effectively allocated towards securing the nation&#8217;s borders. \u2063He <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">highlighted concerns raised<\/a> by\u2062 former acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf regarding wasteful \u2063expenditures, such\u2064 as funding billboards for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-opens-investigation-into-bidens-billions-in-corrupt-bargain-border-contracts\/\" title=\"GOP ...s alleged corrupt ... contracts worth billions awarded to Biden.\">illegal immigrant services<\/a> and substantial grants to the U.S. E-Sports Association \u2062under the pretense\u2063 of preventing terrorism. During a fox News interview,Gonzales emphasized the need for auditing DHS\u2063 to prevent funds \u2064from going to organizations\u2062 exacerbating the border \u2064crisis,suggesting that\u200d Congress \u2063should prioritize\u2064 a conservative budget and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-surveys-gop-wreckage-after-senate-border-deal-falls-apart\/\" title=\"McConnell assesses GOP damage as Senate ... deal crumbles\">provide sufficient funding<\/a> for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u2062(ICE) to continue \u200cdeportations. He acknowledged that reversing the border crisis, set\u200c in motion under the Biden\u2064 governance, would take\u2063 years, and advocated for responsible funding \u2063mechanisms in Congress before an impending budget\u200b deadline.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Tony Gonzales amplifies call for DOGE to investigate DHS to stop &lsquo;border crisis&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1991029\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tony-gonzales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Tony Gonzales<\/a> (R-TX) called for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-government-efficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> to properly look into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/homeland-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a>, as doing so would ensure all of its money is going toward securing the nation&rsquo;s border.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Former acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf posted a thread on X about some of the wasteful ventures that took place at the agency, including <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChadFWolf\/status\/1889053927259468118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">financing billboards promoting services for illegal immigrants<\/a> and a grant of at least $40,000 given to the U.S. E-Sports Association &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChadFWolf\/status\/1889053915519529019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">under the guise of preventing terrorism<\/a>.&rdquo; Gonzales, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, expressed thanks to DOGE and its head, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a>, for holding the government &ldquo;accountable&rdquo; and called for &ldquo;everyone&rdquo; to explain to DOGE how they use taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1&#65039;&#8419;Biden&#8217;s DHS gave a grant to the US E-Sports Association under the guise of preventing terrorism &ndash; including $20k to an &#8220;E-Sports Competition Tournament Organizer&#8221; and another to the Woodrow Wilson Center&#8217;s &#8220;Defeating Disinformation with Digital Gaming&#8221; initiative.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chad Wolf (@ChadFWolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadFWolf\/status\/1889053915519529019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And we have to make sure that they&rsquo;re not going towards these NGOs that are helping fuel this border crisis,&rdquo; Gonzales said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>America&rsquo;s Newsroom<\/em>. &ldquo;That they&rsquo;re not going toward organizations that are going against us, if we will. We need to get the IRS to stop auditing Americans and audit itself for a change and figure things out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding border security, Gonzales contended that Trump is off to &ldquo;a great start&rdquo; in ending the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">border crisis<\/a> but that it would take &ldquo;years&rdquo; to undo the effects of the open border under former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a>&lsquo;s leadership. As such, Gonzales stressed that the government can&rsquo;t shut down right after Trump&rsquo;s inauguration and that Congress needs to fund the government&rsquo;s budget properly.<\/p>\n<p>Congress&rsquo;s continuing resolution is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crfb.org\/blogs\/upcoming-congressional-fiscal-policy-deadlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">currently set to expire on March 14<\/a>, ahead of which Gonzales warned against doing another year of continuing resolution. Instead, a &ldquo;conservative budget&rdquo; must be passed that also provides the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> the necessary funds to continue its work on deportations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Border czar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tom-homan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Tom Homan<\/a> recently pitched the possibility of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/immigration\/border-coverage\/dhs-deputize-irs-agents-deportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">deputizing Internal Revenue Service agents to aid ICE in its deportations<\/a> of illegal immigrants, which Gonzales argued is a &ldquo;great&rdquo; idea to deliver &ldquo;a clear message&rdquo; to the world that the border is secure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3316489\/trump-border-czar-rebuffs-pope-immigration-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Homan has rebuffed Pope Francis<\/a> over his recent criticism of the Trump administration&rsquo;s work on deportation, telling the pope that he ought to &ldquo;fix the Catholic Church&rdquo; and &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-border-czar-rebuffs-pope-over-immigration-criticism\/\" title=\"Trump ... czar rebuffs pope over immigration criticism\">leave border enforcement<\/a> to us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1991029\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1991029\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Gonzales urges DOGE to investigate DHS for border security<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2401409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gonzales-DOGE-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33975,7492,23466,40226,32076],"class_list":["post-2401408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-border-crisis","tag-dhs","tag-doge","tag-tony-gonzales","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gonzales-DOGE-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401412,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401408\/revisions\/2401412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}