{"id":2980,"date":"2026-06-27T22:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:38:22","slug":"trump-cabinet-member-caught-in-embarrassing-error-someone-there-did-the-math-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=2980","title":{"rendered":"Trump Cabinet member caught in embarrassing error: ‘Someone there did the math wrong’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Trump administration made a small but conspicuous mathematical error in announcing its new nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an immigration policy analyst pointed out Saturday.<\/p>\n

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The flub came as President Donald Trump announced he would nominate Lance Schroyer, described as a former Oklahoma state trooper and Marine, to serve as the next director of ICE. According to reporting from journalist Priscilla Alvarez, the agency has not had a Senate-confirmed director since 2017.<\/p>\n

That timeline is where the administration ran into trouble.<\/p>\n

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an immigration analyst who closely tracks the agency, flagged that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had characterized the nominee as the first Senate-confirmed director in 11 years \u2014 a figure that doesn’t square with the math.<\/p>\n

“Someone there did the math wrong,” Reichlin-Melnick wrote, noting that the actual gap “would be just under 10 years” rather than 11.<\/p>\n

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The discrepancy is minor in the scheme of things, amounting to roughly a year’s difference in how long the agency has gone without a permanent, Senate-confirmed leader. But it’s the kind of easily checkable detail that tends to draw attention when it appears in an official announcement from a cabinet secretary.<\/p>\n

ICE has been led by a series of acting directors since the departure of its last confirmed chief, a vacancy that has stretched across multiple administrations even as the agency has taken on an increasingly central role in Trump’s immigration agenda.<\/p>\n

Schroyer’s nomination, if confirmed by the Senate, would end that years-long stretch. Whether it spans 10 years or 11, the gap underscores how long one of the administration’s most prominent enforcement agencies has operated without a permanent leader installed through the full confirmation process.<\/p>\n

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