{"id":18289,"date":"2026-01-27T23:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thom-tillis-says-noem-should-be-out-of-a-job\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:31:48","slug":"thom-tillis-says-noem-should-be-out-of-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thom-tillis-says-noem-should-be-out-of-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Tillis says Noem \u2018should be out of a job\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis<\/a> said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u201cshould be out of a job\u201d given her response to the killing of a 37-year-old Minneapolis man by DHS agents Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what she\u2019s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying,\u201d Tillis told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s just amateurish. It\u2019s terrible. It\u2019s making the president look bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The retiring North Carolina lawmaker is the first Republican to say outright that Noem should lose her Cabinet job. Trump is facing intense pressure to fire Noem in the wake of Saturday\u2019s shooting, as well as calls from Democrats for her to be impeached.<\/p>\n

In addition to Noem, Tillis faulted deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller for castigating victim Alex Pretti in the immediate aftermath of his shooting: \u201cThose two people told the president before they even had any incident report whatsoever that the person who died was a terrorist. I mean that is amateur hour at its worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tillis also signaled he is open to operational changes at DHS in the wake of the shooting, including requiring an independent investigation. And he said he would be OK with a Democratic demand to split off DHS funding from a six-bill package up for debate in the Senate this week, with a stopgap measure in place while funding for the department is renegotiated. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have a problem with its absence,\u201d Tillis said about the DHS bill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u201cshould be out of a job\u201d given her response to the killing of a 37-year-old Minneapolis man by DHS agents Saturday. \u201cI think what she\u2019s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying,\u201d Tillis told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s just amateurish. It\u2019s terrible. It\u2019s making the president look bad.\u201d […]<\/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-18289","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\/18289","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=18289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}