{"id":207291,"date":"2026-03-06T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207291\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:31:13","slug":"kristi-noem-and-san-franciscos-mayor-do-not-speak-often-despite-outgoing-secretarys-claim-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207291\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem and San Francisco\u2019s mayor do not \u2018speak often\u2019 despite outgoing secretary\u2019s claim, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco<\/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie has denied outgoing Homeland Security<\/a> Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a>\u2019s claim that the pair \u201ctalk quite often,\u201d letting it be known that, on the contrary, he had not spoken to her in four months.<\/p>\n

Noem was fired<\/a> by President Donald Trump<\/a> on Thursday, who announced that she would be replaced by Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin and appointed her Special Envoy to the newly-created Shield of the Americas initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The secretary herself was in Nashville, Tennessee, when the news broke, attending the Sergeant Benevolent Association Major Cities Conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.<\/p>\n

At that event, she told Chris Galligan, San Francisco Police Officers Association Vice President, that Lurie \u201cworks with us very well\u201d and had had \u201cgreat conversations\u201d with her.<\/p>\n

\"Kristi<\/p>\n

Kristi Noem speaks at the Sergeant Benevolent Association conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 5, 2026, shortly after President Donald Trump announced she would be replaced as Homeland Security secretary (Reuters)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou maybe have some challenges in San Francisco just because of your state laws and local laws,\u201d Noem told Galligan.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough you\u2019ve got a mayor that works with us very well. He probably doesn\u2019t want me to talk about it a lot, actually. But he has been cooperative and we have great conversations and talk quite often.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, a San Francisco City Hall source subsequently told Mission Local<\/a> that the secretary\u2019s comments were inaccurate.<\/p>\n

That source said Lurie last spoke to the administration when Trump called him on October 22 to discuss moving back a planned ICE<\/a> deployment to the Bay Area.<\/p>\n

\"Noem<\/p>\n

Noem was criticized throughout her 13-month tenure leading DHS for being excessively publicity-focused, notoriously posing for a photo with jailed inmates at El Salvador\u2019s CECOT mega-prison last March (Getty)<\/p>\n

Lurie has been criticized locally for declining to release records of his call with the president, but his diplomatic efforts prevented the liberal city from experiencing an influx of federal immigration agents, a development that led to violent clashes and bitter protests nationwide.<\/p>\n

Trump credited the mayor last fall with asking him \u201cvery nicely\u201d to refrain from wading into San Francisco, also saying on Truth Social that two \u201cfriends of mine,\u201d billionaire CEOs Jensen Huang of Nvidia and Marc Benioff of Salesforce, had played a role in talking him down from signing off on another contentious mission.<\/p>\n

\"San<\/p>\n

San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie says he hasn\u2019t spoken to Kristi Noem in four months (Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images for Laver Cup)<\/p>\n

Noem endured a torrid 13-month tenure as the public face of Trump\u2019s illegal immigration crackdown, which came to a head with the disastrous Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, which saw the fatal shooting of two protesters, Renee Good and Alex Pretti<\/a>, in street confrontations with federal agents.<\/p>\n

The secretary called both victims \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d in defense of her forces, stoking widespread anger, and thereafter fought to retain her position, holding crisis talks with the president in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

She was subsequently hit by accusations about the \u201cchaotic\u201d state of her department<\/a>, her excessive media focus, and alleged extramarital affair with top adviser Corey Lewandowski<\/a>, which both parties vehemently denied.<\/p>\n

With Trump\u2019s patience running short<\/a>, she suffered a nightmarish brace of appearances before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees<\/a> this week, during which the president was reportedly infuriated by her claim that he had known in advance about a lavish DHS advertising campaign in which she was featured prominently.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never knew anything about it,\u201d he told Reuters<\/a> Thursday, signalling the end for an official doomed to be forever remembered for bragging about shooting dead a puppy<\/a> she had failed to train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has denied outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s claim that the pair \u201ctalk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[95648,636,536,5776,4701,95645,17144,101,53206,103,102,95646,95647,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-207291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-chris-galligan","9":"tag-daniel-lurie","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-homeland-security","12":"tag-kristi-noem","13":"tag-markwayne-mullin","14":"tag-mission-local","15":"tag-san-francisco","16":"tag-san-francisco-city-hall","17":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","18":"tag-san-francisco-news","19":"tag-sergeant-benevolent-association","20":"tag-sergeant-benevolent-association-major-cities-conference","21":"tag-sf","22":"tag-sf-headlines","23":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}