'Blankies,' ICE tactics and luxury jets: Top moments from Noem's House testimony
This affects the entire country.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem forcefully defended her department’s immigration enforcement policies Wednesday before Democratic lawmakers — part of a heated and contentious House Oversight Committee hearing that, at times, grew deeply personal.
The hearing is the second in back-to-back DHS oversight hearings centered on the agency's actions on immigration enforcement and Noem's leadership of the department, and comes as members of Congress remain deadlocked on how to proceed with fully funding the sprawling federal agency.
Here are the top moments from the action-packed hearing.
Some Democrats on the panel zeroed in on the responsibilities Corey Lewandowski has assumed as a special adviser for the Department of Homeland Security. Rep. Sydney Kalmager-Dove, D-Calif., cited a Wall Street Journal report from last month, that said President Donald Trump allegedly rejected Lewandowski's request to be Noem's chief of staff "due to reports of a romantic relationship" between the two.
Both Noem and Lewandowski have denied reports of an affair.
Kalmager-Dove asked Noem, point-blank, about the nature of their relationship. "This person has no experience running anything close to the Department of Homeland Security, or even advising someone in your position," Kalmager-Dove said, noting his role as a special government employee has extended a "well beyond the allowed 130-day" period.
'YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!': PROTESTER DRAGGED FROM KRISTI NOEM'S SENATE HEARING
"He is unqualified, which has left my constituents and I wondering why he is your top official," she added.
"So, Secretary Noem, at any time during your tenure as Director of Department of Homeland Security, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?"
Noem turned to address House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan briefly before responding. "Mr. Chairman, I am shocked that we're going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today," she said.
To Kalmager-Dove, she said: "Ma'am, one thing that I would tell you is that he is a special government employee who works for the White House. There are thousands of them in the federal government."
The panel's ranking Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., pressed Noem for details about Lewandowski's role at DHS, though in the context of the question of DHS's use of so-called "luxury jets." Noem had defended use of the jets one day prior during Senate testimony, noting they were used for both executive travel and mass deportations.
Raskin said Wednesday that he had nearly been prepared to buy that story. "And then I heard about an airborne …
This affects the entire country.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem forcefully defended her department’s immigration enforcement policies Wednesday before Democratic lawmakers — part of a heated and contentious House Oversight Committee hearing that, at times, grew deeply personal.
The hearing is the second in back-to-back DHS oversight hearings centered on the agency's actions on immigration enforcement and Noem's leadership of the department, and comes as members of Congress remain deadlocked on how to proceed with fully funding the sprawling federal agency.
Here are the top moments from the action-packed hearing.
Some Democrats on the panel zeroed in on the responsibilities Corey Lewandowski has assumed as a special adviser for the Department of Homeland Security. Rep. Sydney Kalmager-Dove, D-Calif., cited a Wall Street Journal report from last month, that said President Donald Trump allegedly rejected Lewandowski's request to be Noem's chief of staff "due to reports of a romantic relationship" between the two.
Both Noem and Lewandowski have denied reports of an affair.
Kalmager-Dove asked Noem, point-blank, about the nature of their relationship. "This person has no experience running anything close to the Department of Homeland Security, or even advising someone in your position," Kalmager-Dove said, noting his role as a special government employee has extended a "well beyond the allowed 130-day" period.
'YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!': PROTESTER DRAGGED FROM KRISTI NOEM'S SENATE HEARING
"He is unqualified, which has left my constituents and I wondering why he is your top official," she added.
"So, Secretary Noem, at any time during your tenure as Director of Department of Homeland Security, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?"
Noem turned to address House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan briefly before responding. "Mr. Chairman, I am shocked that we're going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today," she said.
To Kalmager-Dove, she said: "Ma'am, one thing that I would tell you is that he is a special government employee who works for the White House. There are thousands of them in the federal government."
The panel's ranking Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., pressed Noem for details about Lewandowski's role at DHS, though in the context of the question of DHS's use of so-called "luxury jets." Noem had defended use of the jets one day prior during Senate testimony, noting they were used for both executive travel and mass deportations.
Raskin said Wednesday that he had nearly been prepared to buy that story. "And then I heard about an airborne …
'Blankies,' ICE tactics and luxury jets: Top moments from Noem's House testimony
This affects the entire country.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem forcefully defended her department’s immigration enforcement policies Wednesday before Democratic lawmakers — part of a heated and contentious House Oversight Committee hearing that, at times, grew deeply personal.
The hearing is the second in back-to-back DHS oversight hearings centered on the agency's actions on immigration enforcement and Noem's leadership of the department, and comes as members of Congress remain deadlocked on how to proceed with fully funding the sprawling federal agency.
Here are the top moments from the action-packed hearing.
Some Democrats on the panel zeroed in on the responsibilities Corey Lewandowski has assumed as a special adviser for the Department of Homeland Security. Rep. Sydney Kalmager-Dove, D-Calif., cited a Wall Street Journal report from last month, that said President Donald Trump allegedly rejected Lewandowski's request to be Noem's chief of staff "due to reports of a romantic relationship" between the two.
Both Noem and Lewandowski have denied reports of an affair.
Kalmager-Dove asked Noem, point-blank, about the nature of their relationship. "This person has no experience running anything close to the Department of Homeland Security, or even advising someone in your position," Kalmager-Dove said, noting his role as a special government employee has extended a "well beyond the allowed 130-day" period.
'YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!': PROTESTER DRAGGED FROM KRISTI NOEM'S SENATE HEARING
"He is unqualified, which has left my constituents and I wondering why he is your top official," she added.
"So, Secretary Noem, at any time during your tenure as Director of Department of Homeland Security, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?"
Noem turned to address House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan briefly before responding. "Mr. Chairman, I am shocked that we're going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today," she said.
To Kalmager-Dove, she said: "Ma'am, one thing that I would tell you is that he is a special government employee who works for the White House. There are thousands of them in the federal government."
The panel's ranking Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., pressed Noem for details about Lewandowski's role at DHS, though in the context of the question of DHS's use of so-called "luxury jets." Noem had defended use of the jets one day prior during Senate testimony, noting they were used for both executive travel and mass deportations.
Raskin said Wednesday that he had nearly been prepared to buy that story. "And then I heard about an airborne …
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