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Kristi Noem

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Relationship to Trumphomeland security secretary in Trump's second administrationpolitical / 3 sources

Trump's eighth secretary of homeland security, succeeded after the Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin in March 2026.

Former homeland security secretaryoffice / 2025-01-25–2026-03-23

Exact relationships

  1. Trump-appointed homeland security secretarypoliticaldocumented · 8 files · 8 source references
  2. cabinet official implementing Trump's immigration orderlegalpoliticaldocumented · 1 file · 1 source reference

Money, power & fallout

  1. Noem serves as Trump's eighth homeland security secretaryFormer secretary by March 23, 2026homeland security secretary in Trump's second administration · documented · 3 sources
  2. Noem's personal-review rule placed nearly $10 billion in nonprofit disaster grants on holdDHS required secretary-level review for large paymentsTrump-appointed homeland security secretary · documented · 1 source
    1. commitmentNonprofit disaster grants held for reviewnearly $10 billion
      Reported commitment source
      Federal Emergency Management Agency
      Reported intended recipient
      Approved nonprofit disaster grantees
      Financially affected
      Disaster-affected communities
      reported · 2025-03-14 · observedPopulation FEMA nonprofit disaster-grant fundingPeriod 2025-01-20 to 2025-03-14Basis Committee-staff compilation of DHS and FEMA payment controls.Limits Rounded amount held for review, not proven permanent loss.Open cited evidence
  3. DOGE review froze billions in FEMA recovery reimbursementsStorm-damaged communities reported delayed reimbursements during DOGE reviewTrump-appointed homeland security secretary · documented · 1 source
  4. Treasury's inspector general opened a review of Trump and DOGE taxpayer-data requestsTIGTA began preplanning and requested access agreements and legal rationalesTrump-appointed homeland security secretary · documented · 1 source
  5. SSA data work expanded toward a national voter-eligibility systemSSA and DHS pursued data matching for state election officialsTrump-appointed homeland security secretary · documented · 1 source
  6. DOGE expanded use of Musk's Grok to analyze federal dataReuters confirmed internal use but could not determine data inputs or government chargesTrump-appointed homeland security secretary · documented · 1 source
  7. Noem's DHS publishes a list under Trump's sanctuary-jurisdiction orderSanctuary-jurisdiction list issued May 29, 2025cabinet official implementing Trump's immigration order · documented · 1 source
  8. A $100,000 signoff rule delayed federal Texas flood support more than 72 hoursInternal records tied the deployment delay to secretary-level spending approvalTrump-appointed homeland security secretary · documented · 1 source

    more than 72 hoursTexas flood response deployment delay

  9. FEMA left nearly two-thirds of Texas flood-survivor calls unansweredInternal documents showed thousands of survivor calls went unansweredTrump-appointed homeland security secretary · documented · 1 source

    nearly two-thirds percentTexas flood-survivor calls unanswered

  10. DHS staffing changed about 1 percent while most major agencies shrankDHS had roughly a 1-percent workforce change over the GAO periodTrump-appointed homeland security secretary · documented · 1 source
Source: Tia Dufour / United States Department of Homeland Security · Rights/use: Public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105 as a United States federal government work · Modified: cropped and resized