{"id":2576538,"date":"2026-03-05T15:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fires-noem-as-dhs-chief-taps-markwayne-mullin-to-replace-her\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:38:02","slug":"trump-fires-noem-as-dhs-chief-taps-markwayne-mullin-to-replace-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fires-noem-as-dhs-chief-taps-markwayne-mullin-to-replace-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump fires Noem as DHS chief, taps Markwayne Mullin to replace her"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-fires-noem-as-dhs-chief-taps-markwayne-mullin-to-replace-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2576538&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump announced that Kristi Noem will be replaced as Homeland Security Secretary by Senator Markwayne Mullin, effective March 31, 2026. Noem will move to a new role as Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, part of a broader Western Hemisphere security initiative to be launched soon. The decision comes after combative congressional hearings in which lawmakers pressed Noem on DHS operations, a large advertising contract, and various personal and professional controversies, including an alleged extramarital affair and questions about how she described police shootings and immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The article also notes ongoing internal DHS churn, including pressure over leadership and the handling of border policies, while highlighting Noem\u2019s tenure as having coincided wiht a sharp drop in illegal immigrant arrests at the southern border. Mullin\u2019s nomination signals a significant leadership shift as the administration pursues its security priorities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump ousts Kristi Noem as DHS chief and taps Markwayne Mullin to take her place<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2508399\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kristi-noem\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3710\">Kristi Noem<\/a> was fired by President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> from her position as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-biden-to-unveil-immigration-agenda-next-tuesday\/\" title=\"Psaki: Biden to unveil ... agenda next Tuesday\">homeland security secretary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116178030946996760\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116178030946996760\">announced<\/a> the development on Truth Social, saying she would be replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK).<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4481664\/trump-personally-involved-next-iranian-leader\/\">Trump wants to be personally &#8216;involved&#8217; in picking next Iranian leader: Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4481091\/democrats-iran-criticism-risks-political-blowback\/\">Democrats&#8217; Iran criticism risks political blowback: &#8216;Reflexive anti-Trumpism&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4478985\/trump-whcd-critics-250th-anniversary\/\">White House Correspondents&#8217; Association dinner gives Trump chance to hit media critics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 31, 2026,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at &lsquo;Homeland.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president was reportedly pushed to remove Noem following her performance during this week&rsquo;s combative congressional hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Noem has accumulated a mountain of personal and professional problems in recent months that ranged from her department&rsquo;s issuance of noncompeted contracts, an alleged extramarital affair with a government employee, and her portrayal of events of two police-involved shootings in Minnesota, among other concerns that lawmakers voiced in oversight hearings this week.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, and even some Republicans, on the House and Senate judiciary committees <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/live-updates-kristi-noem-house-hearing-immigration-dhs-oversight\/\">grilled<\/a> Noem on Tuesday and Wednesday for how she handled the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration authorities during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/live-updates-kristi-noem-house-hearing-immigration-dhs-oversight\/\">declined<\/a> one lawmaker&rsquo;s proposition to apologize or rephrase how she had described both deceased activists as domestic terrorists and being involved in domestic terrorism for how they had interfered in operations. Videos of the incidents cast doubt on Noem&rsquo;s description of the events.<\/p>\n<p>Noem was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4478557\/senate-republicans-berate-kristi-noem-dhs-leadership\/\">put on the spot<\/a> several times by lawmakers, including Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), over the allotment of a $220 million Department of Homeland Security contract for advertisements that prominently featured the secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/archive\/3526-am\/\">reported<\/a> by <em>Punchbowl News<\/em> to be upset on Wednesday and Thursday over Noem&rsquo;s claim on Capitol Hill that she had discussed the massive contract with him and had his support for moving forward with the expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>Noem also <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4480352\/kristi-noem-erupts-democrats-question-alleged-affair-corey-lewandowski\/\">faced<\/a> questions about her relationship with Corey Lewandowski, a special government employee who advises Noem. The affair was reported to have commenced in 2019, according to a 2023 <em>Daily Mail<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w52pFaXPo2\">report<\/a>, and was brought up by House Democrats on Wednesday, given Lewandowski&rsquo;s personal ties to at least one company that received part of the advertising contract. During the House hearing, making matters even more awkward, she was grilled while her husband, Byron Noem, sat behind her.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recites the Pledge of Allegiance before the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled &ldquo;Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security,&rdquo; in the Rayburn House Office Building on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Her husband, Byron, right, is standing behind her. (Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Members of Congress have protested Noem&rsquo;s efforts to limit visits to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >immigration detention centers overseen<\/a> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid reports of abhorrent conditions inside some facilities.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> was first to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4423912\/noem-lewandowski-campaign-oust-trump-border-leader-sources\/\">report<\/a> that Noem and Lewandowski were waging an internal campaign to force Trump&rsquo;s hand-picked commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, to resign because he had pushed back against the DHS&rsquo;s aggressive approach to deportations and Lewandowski&rsquo;s legal authority to continue working.<\/p>\n<p>Sources <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4423912\/noem-lewandowski-campaign-oust-trump-border-leader-sources\/\">said<\/a> the lengths that the two took to push Scott toward the exit were &ldquo;evil,&rdquo; even forcing his top staff members to take random jobs across the department in various parts of the country to make his work unpleasant. Noem and Lewandowski were said to be eyeing Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks to replace Scott, though Scott has refused to resign.<\/p>\n<p>The terminations of senior department officials, including at CBP, have continued through last week.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, the DHS mandated that Scott fire CBP&rsquo;s executive assistant commissioner of enterprise services, Ntina Cooper, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbp-official-rodney-scott-faces-ire-of-noem-and-lewandowski\/\" title=\"CBP official Rodney Scott faces ire of ... and ...\">award-winning government employee<\/a> who personally briefed Trump on border wall plans.<\/p>\n<p>A DHS-aligned source said Scott &ldquo;overpromised and underdelivered&rdquo; on installing the border wall quickly, saying that progress had been &ldquo;incredibly slow.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) talks with reporters outside the Capitol after President Donald Trump nominated him for homeland security secretary to replace Kristi Noem on Thursday, March 5, 2026. (Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A review of border wall projects revealed that the Trump administration <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4355533\/trump-administration-installing-500-mile-wall-buoys-southern-border-river\/\">installed<\/a> 20 miles of wall in its first year, compared to none being built in new areas of the border 30 months into the president&rsquo;s first term &mdash; a dramatically faster start this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Noem&rsquo;s accomplishments include having presided over the department as the number of illegal immigrant arrests by Border Patrol dropped precipitously after Trump took office. CBP <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3840372\/border-patrol-arrests-illegal-immigrants-trump-hit-55-year-low\/\">data<\/a> show that illegal immigrant arrests at the southern border did drop to below 10,000 per month in many of the first six months of 2025, down from 100,000 to 250,000 arrests monthly under Biden. Given that the border went from a crisis state to quiet, agents have been sent nationwide to help ICE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump fires Noem as DHS head, names Mullin successor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2576539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26063625223120.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7492,8794,3634],"class_list":["post-2576538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-dhs","tag-noem","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26063625223120.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576542,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576538\/revisions\/2576542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2576539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}