{"id":331195,"date":"2026-03-06T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331195\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:36:08","slug":"donald-trump-replaces-kristi-noem-as-homeland-security-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331195\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump replaces Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has said he is replacing his embattled homeland security secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days after Ms Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from Republican members as well as Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump said he will make Ms Noem a \u201cspecial envoy for The Shield of the Americas\u201d, a new security initiative that he said would focus on the western hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Noem is the first Cabinet secretary to leave during Mr Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/donald-trump-replaces-kristi-noem-as-homeland-security-secretary.jpg\" alt=\"Markwayne Mullin\" data-title=\"Trump Homeland Security\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.\" data-credit=\"Jacquelyn Martin\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required.\"\/>Markwayne Mullin is set to join the US cabinet (Jacquelyn Martin\/AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>Her departure caps a tumultuous tenure overseeing immigration enforcement tactics that have been met with protests and lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>The former South Dakota governor has been criticised over the way her department has spent billions of dollars allocated to it by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrations over her execution of the Republican president\u2019s hard-line immigration agenda \u2014 particularly her leadership after the fatal shooting of two US citizens in Minneapolis \u2014 as well as her handling of disaster response, paved the way for her downfall.<\/p>\n<p>She faced blistering criticism from Democrats, and some Republicans, in Congress hearings this week over those issues and others.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from immigration, Ms Noem also faced criticism \u2014 including from Republicans \u2014 over the pace of emergency funding approved through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and for the Trump administration\u2019s response to disasters.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, Ms Noem thanked Mr Trump for the new appointment and touted what she claimed were her achievements as secretary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made historic accomplishments at the Department of Homeland Security to make America safe again,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@POTUS<\/a> Trump for appointing me as the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecRubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SecRubio<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecWar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SecWar<\/a> are incredible leaders and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KristiNoem\/status\/2029649541394206987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Mullin would need to be confirmed by the Senate but under a federal law governing executive branch vacancies, he would be allowed to serve as an acting homeland security secretary as long as his nomination is formally pending.<\/p>\n<p>Voting in the Senate just after Mr Trump\u2019s announcement, Mr Mullin said he has \u201cno idea\u201d how quickly his nomination will move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president and I are good friends. So we look forward to working closer with the White House, and obviously I\u2019m gonna be over there a lot more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mullin will take over the third-largest department in government that has responsibility for carrying out Mr Trump\u2019s hardline immigration agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration enforcement during the first year of Mr Trump\u2019s administration was largely defined by high-profile, made-for-social-media operations with flashy names, often led by Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, who reported directly to Ms Noem.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Noem often went out on those operations, riding along with officers when they went out to make arrests.<\/p>\n<p>But those high-profile operations in places like Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis often led to clashes with activists and protesters that were captured on video and drove opposition to the president\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>That culminated with the shooting deaths in Minneapolis after which Mr Trump shuffled leadership of the operation. The number of officers there was drawn down shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has said he is replacing his embattled homeland security secretary Kristi Noem and will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-331195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}