{"id":20550,"date":"2025-01-26T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/us-senate-confirms-kristi-noem-as-homeland-security-secretary\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T10:15:00","slug":"us-senate-confirms-kristi-noem-as-homeland-security-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/us-senate-confirms-kristi-noem-as-homeland-security-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"US senate confirms Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5348417.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The upper chamber approved the Trump&#8217;s pick in a vote of 59-34, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of my top priorities is achieving President Trump&#8217;s mandate from the American people to secure our southern border and fix our broken immigration system,&#8221; said Noem.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her new capacity, Noem served as South Dakota&#8217;s 33rd Governor and its first female governor. Noem served in the South Dakota legislature for years and was later elected to the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>She is the fourth confirmed member of Trump&#8217;s cabinet, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, and Pete Hegseth, who was narrowly approved as Secretary of Defense on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans currently have a 53-47 majority in the Senate. To confirm a presidential nomination, a simple majority is needed, meaning the Republicans can afford to lose no more than two votes if all Democrats oppose the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>SD\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227447\/US-senate-confirms-Kristi-Noem-as-homeland-security-secretary\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upper chamber approved the Trump&#8217;s pick in a vote of 59-34, Xinhua reported. &#8220;One of my top priorities is achieving President Trump&#8217;s mandate from the American people to secure our southern border and fix our broken immigration system,&#8221; said Noem. Prior to her new capacity, Noem served as South Dakota&#8217;s 33rd Governor and its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}