Kristi Noem out as Secretary of Homeland Security, Trump says

Washington — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is out, and volition beryllium replaced by GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, President Trump announced connected Truth Social Thursday. The announcement comes amid disapproval of DHS spending and arsenic Congress has allowed the department's backing to lapse. 

"I americium pleased to denote that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, volition go the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effectual March 31, 2026," Mr. Trump said successful a station connected Truth Social. 

The president said Noem "has served america well," citing her "spectacular results" connected the border. He said she volition beryllium moving to a relation arsenic peculiar envoy for The Shield of the Americas, a caller information inaugural the medication volition beryllium unveiling. 

Noem has been nether occurrence for months, particularly arsenic Congress refused to money the Department of Homeland Security aft the fatal shootings of Rene Good and Alex Pretti amid the Minneapolis migration crackdown. 

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