{"id":220764,"date":"2026-03-05T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/the-controversies-finally-caught-up-to-kristi-noem\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:10:12","slug":"the-controversies-finally-caught-up-to-kristi-noem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/the-controversies-finally-caught-up-to-kristi-noem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-controversies-finally-caught-up-to-kristi-noem\/\">The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-controversies-finally-caught-up-to-kristi-noem\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-controversies-finally-caught-up-to-kristi-noem\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-05 14:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">After a tenure<\/span> marked by controversy and a contentious week of Congressional hearings, secretary Kristi Noem is out as head of the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">President Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Thursday that Noem would be replaced by Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, a staunch Trump ally and immigration hard-liner. \u201cThe current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cI thank Kristi for her service at \u2018Homeland.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The agencies under DHS include Immigration and Customs Enforcement, US Customs and Border Protection, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the US Coast Guard, and others. It\u2019s a sprawling network whose vast responsibilities and rapidly expanding budget have put it at the center of the Trump administration\u2019s radical overhaul of immigration and border policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Speculation has swirled around Noem\u2019s departure for months. Critics have assailed DHS\u2019s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics, while Noem and figures like White House border czar Tom Homan have reportedly been at odds over how to execute the administration\u2019s mass deportation agenda, with Noem and senior adviser Corey Lewandowski said to have emphasized sheer numbers of arrests and deportations above other considerations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The relationship between Noem and Lewandowski has itself been a subject of controversy, with CNN reporting that a September meeting between the two and President Trump grew \u201ccontentious.\u201d Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Lewandowski attempted to fire a pilot during a flight for failing to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-controversies-finally-caught-up-to-kristi-noem\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-controversies-finally-caught-up-to-kristi-noem\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-05 14:43:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/693b3a4b52e40de1a2301b5e\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/Pol_Kristi_Noem_GettyImages-2242496710.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-220764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220766,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220764\/revisions\/220766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}