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    Trump officially picks Kristi Noem for the Department of Homeland Security

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    President-elect Donald Trump has officially tapped South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

    Noem will serve as DHS Secretary and oversee several federal organizations responsible for US immigration, including US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Other agencies in her purview will include the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the US Secret Service.

    Trump confirmed the selection late Tuesday in a statement shared by spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt and posted on his website. Truth Social account.

    The announcement came after CNN first reported on the development early Tuesday. The news outlet cited two anonymous sources “familiar with the selection.” Several other media outlets also reported on the selection.

    Cabinet Noem’s appointment will have to be confirmed by the US Senate before he can take office.

    However, Trump has called for the next Senate GOP leader allow him to make break appointmentsa looming succession race in which U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, is a leading candidate

    That would allow the president-elect to fast-track the confirmation process and prevent the Senate from unexpectedly denying Noem the job.

    Trump also announced Sunday that Tom Homan, who led aggressive immigration enforcement efforts as ICE director during the president-elect’s last administration, will serve in a “border czar” role.

    Trump said Noem is “working closely” with Homan to secure the US’s southern border with Mexico.

    “I have known Kristi for years and have worked with her on a wide variety of projects,” Trump wrote. “She will be an important part of our mission to make America safe again.”

    Stephen Miller, another immigration partisan, was too named deputy to his policy chief.

    Noem, as expected, accepted the nod from Trump. The South Dakota governor wrote in a statement included in Trump’s announcement that she was “honored and humbled” to be selected for the Cabinet position. She also reiterated the president-elect’s stance on the border, indicating that the Trump administration will “make America safe again.”

    Noem’s selection for the Cabinet post was hailed by U.S. Congressman Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, who congratulated Noem on his campaign account midday Tuesday before the official announcement.

    “I am confident that Kristi will secure the southern border and keep America safe,” Johnson added on his Congressional X account.

    Noem, a longtime Trump loyalist, has been a staunch critic of immigration policy under the Biden-Harris administration. She often refers to the US-Mexico border as a “war zone” and under “invasion” by migrants, and has used the border situation as a reason to send South Dakota National Guard troops into Texas since May many times over the years, with the price. of state funds.

    Noem’s comments on the border also took aim at Native American communities in South Dakota. On Jan. 31, the second-term governor told South Dakota lawmakers that Mexican drug cartels were using the state’s Indian reservations to “facilitate the spread of drugs in the Midwest.”

    Noem also suggested, without evidence, that tribal leaders were “personally benefiting” from the cartels during a March town hall event in Winner. She later called on the tribes to “kick out the cartels” in an April state press release.

    All nine Native American tribes in South Dakota officially approved the exile of Noah from their lands after those comments, as well as statements he made regarding native children during a similar town hall in Mitchell.

    Noem’s relationship with Trump changed for a while after she endured international criticism following reports in the spring about her latest memoir, in which she recounted the personal killing of a 14-month-old hunting dog and a goat that she he owned them after a pheasant hunt in the 2000s. .

    She was once considered a running mate for Trump’s vice presidential pick, which eventually went to Ohio Senator JD Vance.

    South Dakota Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden will likely take over as the state’s governor if Noem is officially confirmed.

    More: Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden could be in position to succeed Gov. Kristi Noem: What to know:

    Rhoden would be the third lieutenant governor to do so during an ongoing term. He is preceded by former state Sen. Harvey Wollman, who succeeded the former Democratic Gov. Dick Kneip after resigning in July 1978 to serve President Jimmy Carter as US Ambassador to Singapore.

    Walter Dale Miller became the second lieutenant governor to ascend to the governorship after the death of the former Republican Gov. George Mickelsonwho died along with several other officials, local executives and state pilots in a plane crash near Dubuque, Iowa, on April 19, 1993.

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