US EditionTrump backs Noem amid resignation calls, says she’s doing a ‘very good job’
Trump rejects calls for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign after two fatal federal shootings in Minneapolis, with investigations ongoing and officials dispatched to the city.
- On Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, President Donald Trump said Kristi Noem will remain Homeland Security secretary and replied `No` when asked if she would step down, adding she is doing `a very good job`.
- Calls from Democrats in Congress grew after federal agents including ICE fatally shot Alex Pretti during a Minneapolis, Minnesota protest, marking the second protester death this month.
- Trump dispatched border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis to meet the mayor and the Minnesota governor, while some federal agents including Greg Bovino, acting Border Patrol commander, began leaving the state.
- Several Democrats backed an impeachment resolution and Kristi Noem is scheduled to testify March 3 before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee amid controversy.
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Donald Trump said National Security Secretary Kristi Noem would remain in office despite the president’s decision to reorganize the leadership in charge of his deportation effort in Minnesota following widespread outrage over the murder of two U.S. citizens by federal agents. “I think he’s doing a very good job,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday as he left the White House for Iowa. “The border is totally safe.”
"No," the president told reporters in the White House when they asked if the secretary of Homeland Security would resign after the death of protester Alex Pretti. "I think she's doing a very good job," Trump exclaimed, in his first statements to the cameras since the shooting.
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