Tricia McLaughlin

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin ordered the entire DHS workforce recalled from shutdown furlough on April 10, directing the agency to use available emergency funding to pay staff during what had become the longest government shutdown in US history at 76 days. The shutdown had begun February 14 when Congress failed to pass a DHS appropriations bill. Mullin warned the emergency funds would be exhausted by early May with one payroll remaining. The Senate had passed a bipartisan DHS funding bill excluding ICE and CBP, which the House refused to take up.

The Department of Homeland Security publicly framed Operation Charlotte's Web as a targeted, intelligence-led immigration enforcement action in North Carolina—distinguishing it from broader sweeps. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin emphasized the operation was ongoing despite local officials claiming it had ended, illustrating the tension between federal messaging and local government accounts of enforcement scope.