Kristi Noem
Republican Kristi Noem is homeland security secretary, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Jan. 25, 2025; President Donald Trump nominated her for the post in November 2024. Noem was elected governor of South Dakota in 2018 after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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At Guantánamo Bay, “we'll have the capacity to continue to do there what we've always done. We've always had a presence of illegal immigrants there…
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“Joe Biden banned ‘religious themed’ eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids.”
“In South Dakota, I’m putting prayer back in our schools.”
South Dakota "did have tragedies and we did have losses. But we also got through (the pandemic) better than virtually every other state."