# DHS Faces Oversight Over Decision-Making

Emails and Signal messages from March through August 2025, obtained through a FOIA request, indicate that Corey Lewandowski—an unpaid, unofficial senior adviser to then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—participated in high-level briefings and day-to-day immigration enforcement decisions at DHS. The disclosures may intensify scrutiny of DHS and ICE decision-making, but identify no procurement opportunity, contract, or solicitation.

- The reporting concerns agency leadership and immigration enforcement decisions, not an announced acquisition or change to procurement requirements.
- For contractors serving DHS or ICE, the signal provides no specific solicitation, award, or contract action to pursue or respond to.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Public Safety
**Published:** November 12, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

### Sources
- [Lewandowski’s outsize power at DHS - POLITICO](https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2026/11/12/lewandowskis-outsize-power-at-dhs-01163285) - Politico