Trump's Nominees: Homeland Security
How to contact the Senate and make your voice heard
[Updated 12/23 to include new members of the Committee]
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advises and consents on the nomination for Homeland Security.
Trump has nominated Governor Noem of South Dakota (annual budget $7.9 billion) as his candidate to be Homeland Security Secretary (annual budget $64.8 billion). While Noem has competently run the state of South Dakota, her expertise in the Security area is, simply, missing.
The inside thinking is that Noem will kinda-sorta be the Secretary while the actual work of the department will be run out of the White House under Tom Homan. Should the coordination anticipated by the nominations for SecDef, DNI, and AG (a Squad, of all things), come to fruition, Noem will be positioned as either a fall-gal, should everything go sideways, or as a useful idiot mouthing platitudes and cliché’s as American citizens are rounded up in support of Trump’s emergent dictatorship. Every dictatorship needs jester.
This might be Heavy stuff.
Questions for the Secretary of Homeland Security - Nominee
Questions for Homeland Secretary - Nominee: Noem. The Homeland Department will play a front-line coordinating role in any Trump deportation scheme. Additionally, points of coordination among The Squad (Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, and Gabbard) could be used to drive the use of the US Military in domestic law enforcement: the starter flag for autocracy.
Urge these Senators to vote “no”.
Suggest this reading by Timothy Snyder (or one of your own), The Strongman Fantasy, to the Senators:
Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee.
Senator Paul: Contact
Senator Johnson: Contact
Senator Lankford: Contact
Senator Moreno: Contact (new member. No contact info yet.)
Senator Rick Scott: Contact
Senator Hawley: Contact
Senator Tim Scott: Contact
Senator Ernst: Contact (Also on Armed Services- Hesgseth Nominee)
*This list will be updated as the new Congress takes shape.
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