The ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared to have no immediate impact on her department’s partial shutdown, as the two parties sparred anew over a Democratic demand for an immigration enforcement overhaul.
Within minutes of President Donald Trump’s announcement that he was replacing Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Democrats vowed to press on in their campaign for new curbs on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Public outrage over ICE tactics has held up passage of a long-delayed Homeland Security spending bill.
“A change in personnel is not sufficient,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at his weekly news conference. “We need a change in policy.”
