Markwayne Mullin will be nominated as the next US Secretary of Homeland Security in Washington at the end of March, after Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was firing Kristi Noem from the post and moving her into a new envoy role, according to a statement on his Truth Social platform.
The news came after months of mounting controversy around Noem's leadership of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including a deadly immigration operation in Minneapolis and a bruising row over a taxpayer-funded advertising blitz. In January, federal agents shot and killed two US citizens, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, during 'Operation Metro Surge' in Minneapolis.
