{"id":31517,"date":"2025-01-25T04:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/kristi-noem-beats-senate-confirmation-hurdle-advancing-to-final-vote-for-dhs-role\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T04:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T04:54:11","slug":"kristi-noem-beats-senate-confirmation-hurdle-advancing-to-final-vote-for-dhs-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/kristi-noem-beats-senate-confirmation-hurdle-advancing-to-final-vote-for-dhs-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem beats Senate confirmation hurdle, advancing to final vote for DHS role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nomination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/kristi-noem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D.<\/a>, to be the next Homeland Security secretary defeated a key hurdle in the confirmation process on Friday night, advancing to a final vote later this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her confirmation vote is expected to take place early Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pete-hegseth-confirmed-lead-pentagon-after-vp-vance-casts-tie-breaking-vote\"><strong>PETE HEGSETH CONFIRMED TO LEAD PENTAGON AFTER VP VANCE CASTS TIE-BREAKING VOTE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, Noem will become the fourth of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/a> picks to be advanced out of the Senate, behind Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and incoming Secretary of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pete-hegseth-confirmed-lead-pentagon-after-vp-vance-casts-tie-breaking-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Votes that are expected soon after Noem&#8217;s are those for Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent, followed by Transportation Secretary pick Sean Duffy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/moderate-republican-murkowski-wont-back-trump-pick-hegseth-defense-secretary\"><strong>MODERATE REPUBLICAN MURKOWSKI WON&#8217;T BACK TRUMP PICK HEGSETH FOR DEFENSE SECRETARY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The South Dakota governor is expected to receive bipartisan support for her confirmation to the Department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/safer-stronger-freer-securing-border-set-feature-large-noems-opening-remarks-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS). Her nomination advanced out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) by a vote of 13-2. Only two Democrats voted against her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/tim-scott-emphasizes-results-over-reconciliation-process-he-stays-out-debate\"><strong>TIM SCOTT EMPHASIZES &#8216;RESULTS&#8217; OVER RECONCILIATION PROCESS AS HE STAYS OUT OF DEBATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was the first Governor to send National Guard troops to Texas when they were being\u00a0overwhelmed by an unprecedented border crisis,&#8221; Noem told the committee during her confirmation hearing last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If confirmed as Secretary, I will ensure\u00a0that our exceptional, extraordinary border patrol agents have all the tools and resources and support they need to carry\u00a0out their mission effectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nomination of Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., to be the next Homeland Security secretary defeated a key hurdle in the confirmation process on Friday night, advancing to a final vote later this weekend.\u00a0 Her confirmation vote is expected to take place early Sunday morning.\u00a0 PETE HEGSETH CONFIRMED TO LEAD PENTAGON AFTER VP VANCE CASTS TIE-BREAKING &#8230; <a title=\"Kristi Noem beats Senate confirmation hurdle, advancing to final vote for DHS role\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/kristi-noem-beats-senate-confirmation-hurdle-advancing-to-final-vote-for-dhs-role\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kristi Noem beats Senate confirmation hurdle, advancing to final vote for DHS role\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}