Overview
- Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security chief of staff, published the warning Friday, pointing to a secret White House collection known to few as the Doomsday Book.
- The Doomsday Book houses Presidential Emergency Action Documents, which are prewritten executive orders created under President Eisenhower to keep the government running after a nuclear strike.
- Taylor says those drafts reportedly cover detaining civilians, suspending communications, censoring the press, freezing property, and imposing measures akin to martial law.
- He cites analysts and recent policy memos to outline a hypothetical misuse scenario around the 2026 midterms, including mass arrests using expanded ICE detention capacity and a sharply larger budget he says Congress approved.
- The coverage frames this as a caution rather than proof of a plan, and Taylor notes career officials previously blocked an attempt to place a Trump loyalist near emergency authorities.