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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

Kristi Noem's time as the veritable CEO of South Dakota is drawing to a close, and the next chapter in her political story is about to be written. Noem, the second-term governor of South Dakota ...

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.

Thune added that he believed Noem, the governor of South Dakota since 2019 and a former House member, possesses the skill set necessary to oversee the 260,000 employees at the DHS. “Securing the ...

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.