DHS staff member Thomas Fugate

First on Fox: Thomas Fugate appointed by Trump, 22 President Donald Trump administrative.

Fugate is Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Be a special assistant. However, several media reported that Fuger was the head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3). CP3 is the Department of Homeland Security’s terrorism leadership office and targeted violence prevention.

The young appointment and Homeland Security denied claims about Fox News’ numbers.

“All decisions come from policy leadership, [the] Deputy Minister, Deputy Secretary and Chief of Staff,” Fugate stressed.

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Fugate continues saying that CP3 is a program Cut $18.5 million Last week, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cut the department’s size, with a drastically reduced role.

“Before I get there, [CP3] “It has been marked as wasteful, fraud and abuse. We are not talking about large positions where 80 people have various functions. We are talking about a very small, niche, professional office,” Fugate explained.

Fuger said the office focused primarily on managing grant programs.

“It becomes a huge problem only when you take it out of context and throw it away, and people think I’m actually going to run FBI on the FBI,” Fugate continued.

The Department of Homeland Security also told Fox News that Fugate never held a leadership position in the program, even calling him a “low-level” employee.

President Trump was bothered by the appointment of 22-year-old Thomas Fugate to serve in the Department of Homeland Security. (Getty Image)

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“The entire smear movement around Thomas Fugate is a smoke screen that brings wild trash and wasteful rave parties in the CP3 program under the Biden administration’s watch,” said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. “Fugate never served as the director of CP3, which means it’s unreasonable for him to have operational control or exercise leadership skills on CP3, as we’ve been telling them.”

“A low-level 22-year-old employee was able to identify spending that was misappropriated and subsequently defending this arousal violent response, and the partisan spending of the person on the left tells you what the plan really is for,” McLaughlin said.

Fuger said he started with the Department of Homeland Security and immigration at the border before moving to CP3. (Getty Image)

As for his age and experience, fugate points out that he started with DHS Borders and immigration When the Deputy Minister of Policy asked him to assist CP3 temporarily.

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Before that, he interned at the Heritage Foundation and then graduated University of Texas at San Antonio He received a degree in politics and law last May.

Preston Mizell is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to preston.mizell@fox.com and x @mizellpreston