The newly appointed Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem delivered remarks to her staff for the first time Tuesday afternoon.
“We will exercise all legal authorities that we have to protect this country because it is the only last light of freedom left,” Noem told a packed room of her new colleagues.
“I am thrilled that President [Donald] Trump trusted me with this job,” Noem said, telling the audience that she asked Trump for the job.
“I said, ‘I would like to be the secretary of Homeland Security, sir, because it’s your number one priority. And I love my job as governor of South Dakota, I love my home and my family, I would not leave them to spend time away unless I was doing something of significance,’” Noem recalls telling Trump.
Noem left her position as governor of South Dakota to serve as DHS secretary. Before being…
