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.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    13·
    9 hours ago

    Confirm or don’t confirm, it wouldn’t have mattered. Cabinet appointments cant be filibustered and only 3 GOP voted against any candidates, one of which was Mitch McConnell who voted against 3 separate cabinet picks, all of who passed easily except for Pete Hegseth who still passed but with a VP tiebreaker vote.

    The Dems aren’t in charge of the senate. Their votes didn’t matter.