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President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and said he will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

Trump made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from GOP members as well as Democrats.

Trump says he’ll make Noem a “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” a new security initiative that he said would focus on the Western Hemisphere.

Edit: Here's who is replacing her- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markwayne_Mullin#Personal_life

Mullin voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013.[93][94] His vote drew criticism from other Cherokee citizens in Indian Country Today.[94]

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[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 11 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The #1 reason to put women in every single office/ position of authority is because men would finally be willing to hold officials accountable.

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago

Holy shit this is brilliant

[–] whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I've heard this called the "glass cliff"

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I think he's jealous of the sex jet, lol.

Edit: Nope, it's because the new guy doesn't mind violence against women too. See the edit in the body of the post.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 6 points 22 hours ago

I hope we’ll see less of her face now

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It won't flip the Senate or anything, but it says a lot that they're willing to shave their minuscule majority to get him in the position.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's not how it works.

Mullin took office in 2023, the Senate terms are 6 years. Whoever the Governor appoints will serve the remainder of that term. They definitely aren’t going to appoint a Democrat.

The election year has absolutely no bearing on this seat moving sides.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There will be a gap between Mullin taking the appointment and a new appointment coming in. During that time the GoP majority will be a vote short, which is a problem when they keep having to have Vance come in to break tie votes on their major policies.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 points 21 hours ago

The gap could be as small as almost being non-existent.

Trump said Mullin is taking over March 31st. So that's basically a month for the Governor to find a replacement that requires no approvals of any kind. They could simply grab a previous failed Republican candidate from last election, that's what most Governors do.