A growing share of the presidents senior team has quietly taken up housing behind the gates of American military installations.
As reported by The Western Journal, citing a NewsNation confirmation, Attorney General Todd Blanche has been living on a U.S. military base since early 2026. The outlet reported that the FBI provides his security because he is the attorney general, but the precise concern that prompted the relocation has not been made clear.
Blanche is not the first head of the Justice Department to be moved in this way. His predecessor, former Attorney General Pam Bondi, was similarly relocated to a military base last spring.
NewsNation reported at the time that she was moved after she received threats from drug cartels and individuals upset over her handling of the files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. That earlier episode is known; the specific threat facing Blanche is not.
A number of other senior officials in President Trumps administration have also been pushed out of their private homes, including White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Miller and his wife relocated to a military base in 2025 after protests outside their Arlington, Virginia, home, according to The Atlantic.
Someone had put up wanted posters in their neighborhood with their home address, denouncing Stephen as a Nazi who had committed crimes against humanity, the magazine reported. Millers wife, Katie Miller, answered the intimidation on social media and said the couple would not yield.
To the Tolerant Left who spent their day trying to intimidate us in the house where we have three young children: We will not back down. We will not cower in fear, she wrote. We will double down. Always, For Charlie.
Other officials who have been moved include former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Both Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live on Generals Row at Fort McNair, an Army enclave along the Anacostia River, The Atlantic confirmed.
Noem continued to live on a military base even after she was ousted by President Trump last spring, according to The Independent. The pattern now reaches across the Cabinet, from diplomacy and the Pentagon to the Justice Department.
The latest official to be relocated was Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was moved from his Washington, D.C., home because of developing assassination threats from Iran. The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous U.S. officials, that while those threats are not new, they recently reached a more advanced stage.
The Times added, The severity of the threats to him is unclear. It described Irans ability to carry out attacks in the United States as limited.
A Treasury Department representative told the newspaper that Bessent will not be deterred by the Iranian regimes threats and that he remains committed to the economic pressure campaign he has been running against Tehran. That was the departments public answer to the reported threats.
The FBI has not publicly identified the danger that put Blanche behind a military gate. Until officials explain that point, the public is left with a lengthening list of Cabinet officers in protected housing and no full accounting of why the attorney general is among them.
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