Attorney General Pam Bondi is the latest Trump administration official to relocate to military housing amid heightened security concerns.
Earlier this week, The New York Times reported Bondi moved from a Washington, D.C., apartment to housing on a military installation within the past month after federal law enforcement flagged a growing number of threats directed at her.
The move makes the attorney general among at least seven senior administration officials now living on military bases, according to reporting from The Atlantic. The officials include Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
As reported on Thursday’s AM Update, some of the relocations follow historical precedent. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as General James Mattis, who served as Defense Secretary under the first Trump administration, lived in Navy housing during their tenures. Hegseth’s lodgings at Fort McNair in D.C. is in keeping with that tradition.
But other officials have moved onto bases in direct response to security threats, doxxing, and persistent harassment targeting not just them but their families as well.
Rising Threats
Threats against public officials have intensified in recent years. In the summer of 2022, the homes of several Supreme Court justices were targeted by protestors following the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
That same year, a man traveled from California to Chevy Chase, Maryland, with the intention, according to authorities, of breaking into Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home to kill him. The man instead called police on himself outside the residence where he was then taken into custody.
In July 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks came within millimeters of ending then-candidate Donald Trump’s life at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. But for the split-second timing of a head turn, Trump would have been fatally struck by the bullet.
Under the second Trump administration, the threats against high-ranking officials has continued. A Minnesota man was arrested and federally charged last October after allegedly posting a TikTok video offering a $45,000 bounty on AG Bondi. The post featured a picture of the attorney general “with a sniper-scope red dot” on her forehead reading, “WANTED … dead or alive (but preferably dead),” according to the FBI affidavit.
Citing a senior official familiar with the security assessments, The New York Times reported that threats against Bondi increased earlier this year following the capture and prosecution of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Other Examples
Others in the Trump administration have faced their own concerns. Outgoing DHS Secretary Noem moving into Coast Guard housing after media reports publicly identified where she was living. It is unclear if she will remain in base housing after March 31 when she assumes a new role as Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas.
One of the most visible figures of President Trump’s immigration policies, Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, meanwhile, relocated to military housing with his wife, former special government employee Katie Miller, and young children after repeated threats and harassment at their family home.
Speaking to Next Up host Mark Halperin in December, Katie said the move was not by choice. “We had to move out of our house for security reasons,” she shared. “The house I built for my children that my realtor was like, ‘Oh, this is a perfect house for young kids’ and I’m like, ‘I know. I built it for my children.'”
The mother-of-three said the need to relocate reflects an unfortunate reality. “We moved into a military installation for our kids’ security, my husband’s security, and to ensure that my husband felt safe and my kids felt safe,” Katie explained. “Because as any parent of a young child knows, it’s wrangling to get into car seats. It’s wrangling to get into strollers. You don’t move quickly. You don’t have fast movements.”
“So, for our kids security and for my husband’s, we moved from our home into a military base, and that is a very sad state of affairs,” she concluded.
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