Congressional Democrats are pursuing criminal charges against Kristi Noem, accusing her of lying to Congress during recent hearings. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), both top Democrats on their respective Judiciary Committees, sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging her to launch an investigation.
“We write to refer evidence showing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem repeatedly misled the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during her testimony on March 3, 2026, and the House Committee on the Judiciary during her testimony on March 4, 2026,” the Democrats wrote. “A number of her statements appear to violate criminal statutes prohibiting perjury and knowingly making false statements to Congress.”
“After months of evading our Committees’ requests to testify in routine oversight hearings, Secretary Noem made a series of demonstrably false statements in a brazen attempt to undermine critical congressional oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.”
“While we have low expectations that you will pursue this matter given your partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice, we note that the statute of limitations for perjury and for knowingly and willfully making false statements to Congress is five years,” the letter concluded.
Earlier this month, President Trump announced that Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) will replace Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security. Noem will instead serve as the Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas.
“I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 31, 2026,” he wrote on Truth Social. “The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at ‘Homeland.’”
