{"id":68207,"date":"2026-03-05T15:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/trump-ousts-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-and-replaces-her-with-republican-senator\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:21:58","slug":"trump-ousts-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-and-replaces-her-with-republican-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/trump-ousts-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-and-replaces-her-with-republican-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ousts DHS secretary Kristi Noem and replaces her with Republican senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noem\u2019s tenure was marked by killings of US citizens by federal agents, a rumored affair and $220m spent on ads<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/05\/donald-trump-war-powers-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Thursday announced he was replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kristi-noem\">Kristi Noem<\/a> as the homeland security secretary, capping weeks of bipartisan complaints about her leadership after immigration agents killed two US citizens and reports emerged that she was involved in a personal relationship with a top deputy.<\/p>\n<p>Noem\u2019s firing was the first major personnel shakeup of Trump\u2019s second term. The president made it public in a post on Truth Social, in which he said Markwayne Mullin, a Republican Oklahoma senator, would take over from Noem starting on 31 March \u2013 though Congress would need to vote to confirm the choice first. The secretary, who he said \u201chas served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!)\u201d, would become special envoy for \u201cthe Shield of the Americas\u201d, a security initiative Trump said he planned to announce over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/05\/trump-kristi-noem-homeland-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noem\u2019s tenure was marked by killings of US citizens by federal agents, a rumored affair and $220m spent on ads US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Donald Trump on Thursday announced he was replacing Kristi Noem as the homeland security &#8230; <a title=\"Trump ousts DHS secretary Kristi Noem and replaces her with Republican senator\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/trump-ousts-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-and-replaces-her-with-republican-senator\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump ousts DHS secretary Kristi Noem and replaces her with Republican senator\">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-68207","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\/68207","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=68207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}