Secretary Kristi Noem Delivers Welcome Remarks to DHS Staff, Jan. 28, 2025

Name: "Secretary Kristi Noem Delivers Welcome Remarks to DHS Staff, Jan. 28, 2025"
Uploaded: 2025-01-28
Duration: 17 min 56 s
Description: "Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem addresses department staff at her welcome ceremony, committing to equip them with training, equipment, and resources and saying she asked President Trump for the job, according to the DHS upload."

January 28, 2025 · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · 0:17:56

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What happened

At a welcome ceremony with presentation of the colors, the national anthem, and an invocation asking blessing on the new secretary, Secretary Kristi Noem thanked acting Deputy Secretary Ki Huffman and the staff for their welcome. She said, as she stated it, that the department’s mission is big and vast, that she is committed to fulfilling it alongside the staff, and that her responsibility as secretary includes giving employees the resources they need — the training, the equipment, and the preparation for every situation they may face — so their families stay safe and the country is left safe for their kids and grandkids, as she stated it.

Noem described, as she stated it, her background in business, at the state legislative level, in Congress, and as a governor, saying that experience taught her that people perform with excellence when they are equipped and prepared, as she stated it. She said, as she stated it, that she is thrilled President Trump trusted her with the job, and that the reason he did is that when he talked with her about what her future looked like, she asked him for it — she told him she would like to be Secretary of Homeland Security because it is, as she stated it, his number one priority, and that she loved her job as governor of South Dakota and would not leave her home and family unless doing something of that weight, as she stated it.

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Why it matters

A new Homeland Security secretary’s welcome address sets the department’s internal bargain at the start of the administration’s immigration enforcement drive: mission first, and in exchange the training, equipment, and resources to do it — from a secretary who says she asked for the job because it was the President’s top priority.

Sources: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “Secretary Kristi Noem Delivers Welcome Remarks to DHS Staff”, 2025-01-28 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-01-28). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.