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REAL ID "absolutely necessary," says policy expert

Homeland Security NewsWire's executive editor Eugene Chow recently caught up with Jena Baker McNeil, a senior policy analyst specializing in homeland security at the Heritage Foundation; McNeil discusses why the REAL ID program is necessary, the state of implementation, and why it is not an unfunded mandate as some critics claim [editor's note: today, 27 July, is McNeil's last day at the Heritage Foundation; she is leaving Heritage to work on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, for Ranking Member Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin)]