From KELOland via twitter:
President-elect Donald Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.https://t.co/4MSVH0A0y0 pic.twitter.com/hYR8ipzZI7
— KELOLAND News (@keloland) November 12, 2024
As noted on FoxNews:
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to fill the role of Homeland Security secretary, a source confirms to Fox News Digital.
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The Department of Homeland Security oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Keep watching, as this will initiate some earth-shaking changes in the already changed status quo for South Dakota state politics, not the lease of which would be elevating Larry Rhoden to the highest state office as our new Governor, as well as moving someone – a potential running mate, perhaps – to the office of Lt. Governor.
A perfect choice!!!
Ed! 💫
This is good for South Dakota. Rhoden will do well and hopefully pick a conservative senator like Schoenbeck.
If this happened the west river facebook groups would have meltdowns like we saw democrats have when Hilary and VP Harris lost
Good pick!!!
Great! And the 2026 SD Gubernatorial Primary is officially underway.
Happy for the governor. Happy for the lieutenant governor. Happy for S.D.
A win for SD.
Shooting a dog and a Billy Goat provided the additional training she needed for this position evidently.
Qualifications for this position? Loyalty
Lord Help Us All!
Well, she proved she can kill innocent creatures and feel good about it. That is a major qualification for her new job. DHS Secretary is one of the hardest jobs in government. You have to be perfect every day. I never heard anyone say that about Kristi.
How is she qualified for this? With all of the turnover she generated as governor, is this really the best hire? Or a loyalty handout?
You say “loyalty” as if it is a negative.
Beyond that, she is committed to border security, she will be responsible for cybersecurity which she has more than a passing knowledge because of Dakota State University unlike most politicians, and as a Governor she understands how FEMA works.
Yes her weakness has been organizational stability. But, that is in many ways the easiest to fix if she has greta people under her and is willing to delegate day to day operations.
All in all, she steps into the position fundamentally more prepared than anyone who has ever led the Department with the possible exception of the first Secretary, former Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge. The others were all lawyers who rarely have any innate management ability or John Kelly who thought Homeland Security was a branch of the military with a domestic license to stomp on civil liberties.
Most intellectually thought out comment I’ve read in a while.
Compaed to all the other comments, this is a low bar to beat.
And your comment is even lower…congrats
i cant wait for the first time she draws the wrath of marjorie taylor greene.
Governor Noem will actually do the job of DHS Secretary unlike the baffoon who is currently keeping the seat warm. So no, it won’t happen.
Oh, and this is another prediction that brad/enquirer/enquirocrat/uncurious will get wrong just as he/it has been wrong on so many others.