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DHS Assistant Secretary for Policy to Step Down

David Heyman, assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, will leave the agency next month, he said in an April 23 memo. "My plan has always been to conclude my tenure sometime following the completion of our…

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nation's second Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, which is forthcoming," he said. As such, and so that our new Secretary of Homeland Security can put in place a team of his own choosing, I wanted to let you know I will step down," in mid-May. Heyman highlighted agency accomplishments, including global supply chain security strategies, trade-related executive orders and the Beyond the Border Initiative with Canada.