WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:
Today, Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) released a new oversight report (https://www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ARMED-FOR-VIOLENCE-REPORT2.18.26.pdf) exposing the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) multi-million-dollar surge in spending and contracts to amass deadly weapons and ammunition since the start of the second Trump administration. This growing arsenal, fueled by at least $144 million in contracts last year for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), coincides with DHS's deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to neighborhoods across the country and their ongoing misuse of lethal ...