Trump picks Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary
By Kaitlan Collins, CNN
Published 1:00 AM EST, Tue November 12, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to two people familiar with the selection.
Noem will be tapped to take over the agency as two key immigration hardliners β Stephen Miller and Tom Homan β are slated to serve in senior roles, signaling Trump is serious about his promise to crack down on his immigration pledges. With his selection of Noem, Trump is ensuring a loyalist will head an agency he prioritizes and that is key to his domestic agenda.
The department saw an immense amount of turmoil the last time Trump was in office. Then, DHS had five different leaders, only two of whom were Senate-confirmed. The agency has a $60 billion budget and hundreds of thousands of employees.
Noem, who previously was a South Dakota representative, will now be tasked with overseeing asprawling agency that oversees everything from US Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Federal Emergency Management ___Agency and the US Secret Service__.
Noem had once been on Trumpβs shortlist for vice president, though her relationship with Trump shifted after the negative rollout surrounding the publication of her book: βNo Going Back: The Truth on Whatβs Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.β In it, she revealed that she once killed her 14-month-old wirehair pointer, Cricket, when she was not displaying the signs of an ideal hunting dog.
The governor wrote that the dog was βuntrainable,β according to excerpts first reported by The Guardian. Noem later argued that those anecdotes were meant to show how capable she is of doing some of the more gruesome jobs in life when necessary.of course CNN would note this
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