FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gives a news conference at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters, Jan. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
President Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem as his Homeland Security secretary Thursday amid growing criticism of her leadership, making her the first Cabinet secretary to leave during his second term.
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FILE – As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)FILE – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center, watches as officers speak with a person passing through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, March 16, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)FILE – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, front left, listens as three U.S. citizens who had been detained by ICE stand, from back left, Javier Ramirez, of Calif., Leonardo “Leo” Garcia Venegas, of Ala., and Marimar Martinez, of Chicago, as they are introduced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Ct., during an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)FILE – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pilots a U.S. Coast Guard Response Boat Small with the Maritime Security Response Team, March 16, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)FILE – Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks at the border with Mexico, Feb. 4, 2026, in Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)FILE – U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks to the media during the Five Country Ministerial meeting at the Honourable Artillery Company in London, Sept. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)FILE – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with accompanied by Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa, as she tours Ulpiano Paez Air Base, Nov. 6, 2025, in Salinas, Ecuador. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File)FILE – President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and others, tour “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)FILE – Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem dance to the song “Y.M.C.A.” at a campaign town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center & Fairgrounds, Oct. 14, 2024, in Oaks, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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