Kristi Noem

Ma'am, I did not call him a domestic terrorist.

I said it appeared to be an incident of.

Sir, the president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and to other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from.

We had that conversation, yes, before I was put in this position and sworn in and confirmed and since then as well.

Yes, they did.

They went out to a competitive bid, and career officials at the department chose who would do those advertising commercials.

Why do I love these wide open spaces?

They remind me of why our forefathers came here.

Not just for its beauty, but for the freedom only America provides.

I'm Kristi Noem.

The president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently.

He did?

The latest Democrat-led shutdown of DHS is reckless, it's unnecessary, and it undermines the American national security, and it harms the men and women who work at DHS and their families.

Despite the House passing a bipartisan, bicameral, full-year DHS funding bill, it is Senate Democrats who've chosen not to fund the department and have held this department hostage.

As a result, critical national security missions, including border security,

Immigration enforcement, aviation security, disaster response, cybersecurity, and the protection of critical infrastructure are all being strained.

Our ability to provide for a safe and successful World Cup is being hindered as well.

More than 100,000 dedicated DHS employees

are once again being asked to work without pay for the third time in just five months.

At a time when we've produced the most secure border in history and removed nearly 3 million illegal aliens from our country, disrupting the department responsible for those gains is indefensible.