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Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
2026-03-05 20:39:22 / BOTA
US President Donald Trump has announced that he will replace Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Noem, who has led Trump's campaign on immigration, will be replaced by Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin, Trump says.
"The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well and has had many and spectacular results," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
He added that Noem will now move to a newly created position, the Special Envoy for Shield of the Americas, which Trump called a "new Western Hemisphere Security Initiative."
US President Donald Trump says Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin will replace Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security by the end of March.
Mullin, a former professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter, has served as a U.S. senator for Oklahoma since 2023, after 10 years as the state's House representative.
His Senate biography page describes him as a "business owner, cattle farmer and proud husband of 28 years" who has six children with his wife.
For two months, Democrats in the US House of Representatives have been calling on US President Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem after the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, but Trump has sided with Noem, telling reporters at the White House: "I think she's doing a very good job. The border is completely secure."
President Donald Trump, already frustrated with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, was angered by her performance this week during hearings in.
The sources said the President was particularly frustrated by Noem's response when she was repeatedly asked about her role in approving the contracts, specifically a $220 million advertising campaign to encourage immigrants to self-deport, the sources said. U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, described Trump as "angry."
At one point during the questioning, Noem told Kennedy that Trump knew about her decision to approve the campaign advertising contracts — a response that did not sit well with the president, the sources said. The advertising contracts went through a process that limited competitive bidding.
A White House official told NBC News that the president did not approve the advertising campaign.
Kennedy told reporters that he had spoken to the president about the exchange.
"The President of the United States called me, and I'm not going to speak for him, folks, but, I'll put it this way: his memory and her memory are different."
“I can assure you, he’s not happy with her,” said one of the lawmakers who spoke with Trump this week, who, like others, was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. “She did a terrible job in the hearings and made a lot of mistakes.”
Asked for comment on Trump's frustrations with Noem, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement: "Secretary Noem serves at the pleasure of the President. She is honored to serve the American people and lead DHS. Under her leadership, we have the most secure border in American history, 3 million illegal immigrants have left the United States, and we now have the lowest homicide rate in 125 years."
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