{"id":18247,"date":"2026-01-26T21:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kristi-noem-to-testify-before-senate-judiciary\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:46:39","slug":"kristi-noem-to-testify-before-senate-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kristi-noem-to-testify-before-senate-judiciary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem to testify before Senate Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will testify March 3 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to an aide for Chair Chuck Grassley.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley has been haggling for weeks to schedule Noem\u2019s testimony as part of his panel\u2019s regular oversight of DHS. But her high-profile appearance will likely be dominated by senators\u2019 questions regarding the agency\u2019s immigration enforcement tactics following two fatal shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis in the past month.<\/p>\n<p>Some GOP senators \u2014 including Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who is a member on the committee \u2014 have called for an independent investigation into the latest shooting over the weekend, while others have criticized initial comments from top administration officials that suggested the victim bore responsibility and not the officers involved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will testify March 3 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to an aide for Chair Chuck Grassley. Grassley has been haggling for weeks to schedule Noem\u2019s testimony as part of his panel\u2019s regular oversight of DHS. But her high-profile appearance will likely be dominated by senators\u2019 questions regarding the agency\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}