Noem Confirmation Hearing Highlights How Much DHS Rot She’ll Have To Clean Out

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Posted on 01/17/2025 2:27:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

GOP senators railed against a host of Alejandro Mayorkas’ failures in Friday’s confirmation hearing for Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The hearing at times seemed like a Republican therapy session for lawmakers who needed to express their disgust with current DHS Secretary Mayorkas, whom Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio described as “the worst cabinet member ever in the history of the United States of America.”

Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, recounted how Mayorkas established the Disinformation Governance Board “using taxpayer resources to police speech on the internet and elsewhere, to tag American citizens’ viewpoints as either legitimate or not legitimate, and used the power of the state to censor them.”

“This has got to be the darkest chapter, I think, in DHS’s short history,” Hawley said. “[Mayorkas] eventually withdrew the board under intense criticism but has never fully repudiated it and never promised not to do it again.”

The theme of the hearing was that DHS has moved away from its mission. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican, summarized conservative criticism of the department in his opening statement:

Instead of focusing on critical threats like securing the southwest border, DHS has shifted its gaze inward, targeting law abiding Americans. DHS, under the Biden administration, has often used its vast powers to target Americans exercising their constitutional rights. It’s become an agency more focused on policing speech, monitoring social media, and labeling political dissent as domestic terrorism than addressing genuine security threats. While cartels traffic people and fentanyl across an unguarded border, DHS has spent its time and resources creating partisan disinformation boards spying on Americans through invasive surveillance technologies. The mission drift is dangerous.

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