LiveNOW’s Andy Mac is speaking with Sophia Cai, a White House reporter at POLITICO and co-author of West Wing Playbook, as we hear Kristi Noem is leaving her current position at the Department of Homeland Security. President Donald Trump said he’s replacing Noem with Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin. Noem is the first Cabinet secretary to leave during Trump’s second term. “I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 31, 2026,” Trump said in a statement on social media. Later in the day, Noem acknowledged her new role, stating in a post online, “Thank you @POTUS Trump for appointing me as the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. @SecRubio and @SecWar are incredible leaders and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren.”
Kristi Noem leaves DHS, will now work to ‘dismantle cartels’
