Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued the following statement Saturday regarding the confirmation of Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD) as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security:
“I was proud to vote for Governor Kristi Noem to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Secretary Noem’s familiarity with Congress and her executive experience as Governor of South Dakota will be immediately valuable as she gets to work on an array of domestic security threats, from confronting natural disasters to guarding our coasts to maintaining our cyber security defenses.
Foremost among the Department’s complicated missions is addressing the ongoing security and humanitarian crisis at our southern border.
The American people handed this Administration a crystal-clear mandate to clean up the mess at our border from the last four years. I look forward to working with Secretary Noem to do just that.”
