President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, cruised through a confirmation hearing Friday on Capitol Hill, just three days before the inauguration in Washington.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, isn’t too keen on the department’s whole “thwarting foreign manipulation” thing.

Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faced questioning Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security. Noem, the daughter of a farmer and a former representative from South Dakota, is being questioned before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Noem's role as Homeland Security secretary is expected to be more limited in scope than her predecessors’, sources familiar with the Trump transition tell NBC News.

Noem said she would work Sen. Maggie Hassan to make sure resources are deployed to help with northern border security.

Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., opens Kristi Noem's hearing with a litany of complaints about the department she may soon command, saying DHS has been distracted from its core duties of ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Trump's pick to run the Department of Homeland Security, testified at a confirmation hearing before the Senate homeland security committee.

The tension between both parties goes back to comments Noem made in 2024 accusing tribal leaders of enabling drug cartels

Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on key issues raised during Kristi Noem’s Senate confirmation hearing on ‘America Reports.’

Kristi L. Noem (R) on Friday pledged that ... James Lankford (R-Oklahoma), who expressed skepticism of the program. Noem said DHS would maintain some of the data to track who has been admitted ...

Ky., delivered his opening statement at the confirmation hearing for Gov. Kristi Noem to serve as the head as the Department of Homeland Security. Paul knocked the department's past of "bureaucratic incompetence" and believed Noem could bring "transparency and accountability.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem during her Senate confirmation hearing to be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security pledged that she would not politicize FEMA aid depending on the state, and said that she would provide U.