Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they'd now oppose her in the wake of Trump's aggressive deportation plans and last week's incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.

“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”

Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Knock down drag out fight ends the same way in the same amount of time. Noem got 50 Republican senators that voted for her. That’s an automatic win for her unless Vance went against Trump’s pick.

    They only need 51 if there are 50 against, and there wasn’t, some Republicans sat out as well. In the end they are dumbasses for bitching but their efforts wouldn’t change the vote with her