Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is gearing up to run to be New Mexico’s next governor. Just over a week after wrapping up her term working for former President Joe Biden, Haaland is assembling a team for a 2026 gubernatorial campaign, a person close to her said.

When Donald Trump takes control of the White House on Monday, he will inherit something his voters hardly would have expected during a long campaign of berating outgoing President Joe Biden on immigration: a U.S.-Mexico border with the lowest number of illegal crossings in five years.

Illegal crossings at the southern border were lower in December 2024 than in December 2020, Border Patrol data showed.

SAN DIEGO — Migrants waiting to enter the US using former Joe Biden’s CBP One app broke down ... the first of the sweeping border actions the new administration prepared for the first day.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

Donald Trump wants his Energy Department to quickly approve new liquified natural gas export projects. A late Biden study could slow things down.

Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is running for the Democratic nomination for governor in New Mexico after championing conservation and clean energy during her tenure as Interior secretary under President Joe Biden.

The president on Jan. 24 issued an executive order revoking former President Joe Biden’s 2021 directive that had axed the decades-old policy.

Documents on DEI have been removed from websites at agencies including the Office of Personnel Management, State Department and Department of Homeland Security.

The Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes

FILE - Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during an event to commemorate World Wildlife Day and announced during her speech that her agency will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands at the National Geographic Society in Washington, Friday, March 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) AP

NBC talked to voters who find both parties, Democratic and Republican, lacking and who are looking for change. Here are their thoughts about the state of American politics as Trump begins his second term.