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Outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has been referred to the Justice Department by Democrats Jamie Raskin and Dick Durbin. In a letter to Congress, they accused Noem of knowingly lying to Congress during hearings earlier this month.
They sent a letter to the Department of Justice detailing their complaints against Noem, saying: “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.”
One of the biggest points of contention is the massive $220 million ad campaign that featured Secretary Noem. She insisted in her testimony that the President knew about and approved the campaign—something the President himself contradicted.
Even Republican John Kennedy of Louisiana raised questions about whether contracts for that ad campaign went through a competitive bidding process, as Secretary Noem claims, but Kennedy refutes.
It’s unclear at this time whether this complaint from Raskin and Durbin will lead to any action from the DOJ.