Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “repeatedly misled” lawmakers in a “brazen” attempt to skirt accountability, according to two senior Democratic members of Congress, who have referred the Trump administration official to the Justice Department for a perjury investigation.
“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,” Senator Dick Durbin and Rep. Jamie Raskin wrote on Monday in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
