{"id":31565,"date":"2025-01-25T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/kristi-noem-confirmed-by-us-senate-to-head-department-of-homeland-security\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:11:06","slug":"kristi-noem-confirmed-by-us-senate-to-head-department-of-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/kristi-noem-confirmed-by-us-senate-to-head-department-of-homeland-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem confirmed by US Senate to head Department of Homeland Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota governor will take on Trump\u2019s anti-immigration mission, air travel and natural disasters<\/p>\n<p>The US Senate confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kristi-noem\">Kristi Noem<\/a> as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and Donald Trump\u2019s plans to clamp down on illegal immigration during his second presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans kept the Senate working on Saturday to install the latest member of Trump\u2019s national security team. Defense secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/24\/pete-hegseth-confirmed-defense-secretary\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> was confirmed in a dramatic tie-breaking vote Friday night, joining the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the CIA director, John Ratcliffe. The Senate will next vote on Monday evening on Scott Bessent\u2019s confirmation as treasury secretary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/25\/kristi-noem-confirmed-secretary-department-of-homeland-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota governor will take on Trump\u2019s anti-immigration mission, air travel and natural disasters The US Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and Donald Trump\u2019s plans to clamp down on illegal immigration during his &#8230; <a title=\"Kristi Noem confirmed by US Senate to head Department of Homeland Security\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/kristi-noem-confirmed-by-us-senate-to-head-department-of-homeland-security\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kristi Noem confirmed by US Senate to head Department of Homeland Security\">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-31565","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\/31565","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=31565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}