From Border Brawls to FEMA Briefings: The Mullin Problem

From Noem to Mullin, Trump is choosing brand ambassadors for border politics to run a department that also handles disasters, cyber, and elections.

President Donald Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on March 5, 2026, after a brutal week of hearings on Capitol Hill and mounting outrage over deaths in DHS operations and a $220 million no-bid ad contract that mostly starred… Kristi Noem. He announced, on Truth Social and then everywhere else, that he would nominate Senator Markwayne …