国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆（Kristi Noem）周二前往国会山，将面对要求她辞职、被解雇或弹劾的议员。
她将出席参议院司法委员会的听证会，此时两党议员均批评她在特朗普政府全国移民行动中的处理方式。一些民主党人呼吁对她进行弹劾。
她的证词准备工作已进行数月。爱荷华州共和党议员、参议院司法委员会主席查克·格拉斯利（Chuck Grassley）一直寻求她的露面，以对国土安全部（DHS）进行例行监督。
国土安全部资金僵局缓解，白宫向民主党发出“严肃”反提议
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国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆将在确认听证会以来首次重返参议院，出席参议院司法委员会。两党多名议员在该委员会上要求她辞职。（Eric Thayer/Getty Images）
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但直到明尼阿波利斯移民行动中发生亚历克斯·普雷蒂（Alex Pretti）和蕾妮·妮可·古德（Renee Nicole Good）被致命枪击身亡事件后，诺姆才同意作证。
上个月，总统唐纳德·特朗普驳回了解雇诺姆的想法。
“我为什么要这么做？”特朗普说，“我们拥有国家历史上最坚固的边境。犯罪数据是我们自1900年以来最好的——已经125年了。”
尽管如此，预计她将面临参议院民主党人的严厉质询。
国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆回应被解雇呼吁，新亚历克斯·普雷蒂视频曝光
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总统唐纳德·特朗普于2026年1月16日在佛罗里达州出席仪式，为棕榈滩县4英里长的南大道更名为“唐纳德·J·特朗普总统大道”举行命名仪式。（Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo）
参议院司法委员会民主党高级成员迪克·杜宾（Dick Durbin）参议员在听证会宣布时表示，诺姆此前“去年拒绝出席参议院司法委员会，现在却说五周后可以——那时她是否还担任国土安全部部长？”
“鉴于国土安全部发生的所有暴力和死亡事件，部长显然并不急于解释她对这场全国性危机的管理失误，”杜宾在一份声明中说，“同时她还希望我们对她创纪录的预算投赞成票。”
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该小组中至少有一名共和党参议员，北卡罗来纳州参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（Thom Tillis），已成为她的主要批评者之一。
今年1月，蒂利斯表示，在诺姆同意作证前，他将对通过委员会的国土安全部提名人选设置搁置（hold）——这一行动将阻碍特朗普对该机构的任命。
“我不会参与弹劾，”蒂利斯当时表示，“我认为这应该是一个管理决策。她应该下台。”
她的作证恰逢仅影响国土安全部的部分政府停摆进入第三周。
一些共和党人担心，停摆可能会阻碍该机构对美国潜在威胁的主动应对，特别是在特朗普周末对伊朗发动打击以及长期停摆期间可能出现的其他安全挑战之后。
由纽约州民主党少数党领袖查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）领导的白宫和参议院民主党人已谈判数周，但双方均未取得突破。
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白宫向民主党发出了最新提议，一名白宫官员在向福克斯新闻数字版发表的声明中称该提议“严肃”。尽管如此，双方仍未达成协议，该机构仍处于停摆状态。
“民主党人需要采取行动结束停摆，以免更多美国人因救灾等关键服务缺乏资金而受到伤害，”该官员说。
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem heads to Capitol Hill Tuesday to face lawmakers demanding she resign, be fired or impeached.
Her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee comes as members of both parties criticize her handling of the Trump administration’s immigration operations throughout the country. Some Democrats have called for her to face impeachment.
Her testimony has been in the works for months. Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, had been seeking her appearance to conduct routine oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
DHS FUNDING STALEMATE THAWS AS WHITE HOUSE SENDS DEMOCRATS ‘SERIOUS’ COUNTEROFFER
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will return to the Senate for the first time since her confirmation hearing and appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where several lawmakers from both parties are demanding her resignation.(Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
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But it wasn’t until after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good during immigration operations in Minneapolis that Noem agreed to testify.
Last month, President Donald Trump dismissed the idea of firing Noem.
“Why would I do that?” Trump said. “We have the strongest border in the history of our country. We have the best crime numbers we’ve ever had, going back to the year 1900 — that’s 125 years.”
Still, she is expected to face tough questioning from Senate Democrats.
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President Donald Trump attends a ceremony in Florida to dedicate the renaming of a 4-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County to “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard” on Jan. 16, 2026.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the top Democrat on the committee, said at the time the hearing was announced that Noem previously “refused to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year and now tells us that she will be available in five weeks — should she still be DHS Secretary at that time.”
“With all of the violence and deaths involving DHS, the Secretary is apparently in no hurry to account for her mismanagement of this national crisis,” Durbin said in a statement. “And she expects us to rubber stamp her record-breaking budget in the meantime.”
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And there’s at least one Senate Republican on the panel, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who has emerged as one of her top critics.
In January, Tillis said he would place holds on DHS nominees coming through the committee until Noem agreed to testify — a move that would block Trump’s picks for the agency.
SCHUMER, DEMS AGAIN BLOCK DHS FUNDING, FORCE STATE OF THE UNION SHOWDOWN
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A mobile digital billboard with messaging critical of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is parked along the National Mall on Feb. 6, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“I’m not going to get into impeachment,” Tillis said at the time. “I think it should be a management decision. She needs to go.”
Her testimony also comes as a partial government shutdown affecting only DHS enters its third week.
Some Republicans have expressed concern that the shutdown could hamper the agency’s ability to respond proactively to potential threats in the U.S., particularly following Trump’s weekend strikes in Iran, along with other security challenges that could arise during a prolonged closure.
The White House and Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have been negotiating for weeks, but neither side has reached a breakthrough.
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The White House sent its latest offer to Democrats, which a White House official described as “serious” in a statement to Fox News Digital. Still, no agreement has been reached, and the agency remains shuttered.
“Democrats need to make a move to end the shutdown before more Americans are harmed by a lack of funding for critical services like disaster relief,” the official said.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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