Posted on 11/11/2024 10:25:40 PM PST by Enterprise
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 — Stephen Miller and Tom Homan — 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 a sprawling 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.
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The governor wrote that the dog was “untrainable,” 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.
We forgive you Kristi as long as you treat violent gang and cartel members as you did your untrainable doggie.
Now this one I totally did not see coming
I didn’t either.
And hopefully jihadis get the same treatment her dog got.
Hers was a violent dog that needed to be put down.
There are a number of parallels in today’s America.
Go Kristi!
Ditto!
She can do a much better job than mayorkis that’s for damn sure
Indeed!
I hope she exposes every dirty thing he did to get illegals across the border by any means.
What does this do to Thune’s leader race? Would he be interested in SD Gov now instead of Majority Leader?
So which Republican takes the job Mayorkas has now ???
Maybe the ‘dog story’ was a plus on her resume … she needs to be tough …
Just a shoot from the hip guess here. He will stay in the Senate.
Trying to figure out why she’s qualified for that job. Not exactly like her state has been a hotbed of terrorist activity or anything....
Like a Pit bull
What I don’t understand is why Trump is making all these appointments so far in advance. Why telegraph your moves to the enemy such that they can prepare a defense? Nothing has been restructured yet either. Why take such a high-powered job when it might (should) disappear?
he will get filthy rich as majority leader
sd governor is a step down
How many of these leaks have proven wrong?
This is consistent with what I thought might happen in transition. Lots of floated names of swamp people, meaning people who have a long history in politics, these names getting floated to reassure the swamp that he is being co-opted. And then after inauguration, win anything they might have done to stop it is too late, the actual announcements might get made.
Actually, that’s kind of the way I look at it.
Even my dog can do better job than Mayorkis.
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