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LetMyPeopleVote

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Thu Feb 5, 2026, 07:24 PM Feb 5

MaddowBlog-New national poll shows most Americans want Kristi Noem out at DHS

After federal agents killed Renee Good, polls showed a public backlash. After federal agents killed Alex Pretti, it got worse.

On Capitol Hill, a growing number of lawmakers — including a handful of Senate Republicans — want Kristi Noem to resign or be fired.

A new poll shows the American mainstream agrees. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-05T21:30:17.893Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kristi-noem-dhs-popularity-national-poll

Almost immediately after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, the Trump administration wasted little time settling on a narrative that it expected Americans to believe: The victim, a 37-year-old mom, was the villain of the story.

The American mainstream didn’t buy it. A national Economist/YouGov poll, for example, found the vast majority of Americans are familiar with what transpired in Minneapolis, and by a 20-point margin, people saw the shooting as unjustified (50% vs. 30%). The same poll also found that a 47% plurality said ICE is making Americans less safe, while a 46% plurality said ICE should be abolished altogether.

Around the same time, a Quinnipiac University poll found that 57% of Americans disapproved of the way ICE was enforcing immigration laws, while 40% approved......

As bad as this looks for the president’s agenda, there’s yet another element of the results that stood out for me. From Quinnipiac’s review of its data:

Nearly 6 out of 10 voters (58 percent) think Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem should be removed from her job, while 34 percent think she should remain in her job.

‘A strong no confidence vote for the beleaguered top cop at Homeland Security whose agency’s job performance is considered dismal enough by voters that she should be let go,’ [Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said].


On Capitol Hill, a growing, bipartisan group of lawmakers have called for Noem’s ouster, and the number of House Democrats backing an impeachment resolution against the South Dakota Republican is up to 187.

Whether Trump cares or not, the DHS secretary is an increasingly obvious political liability.
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Kristi Noem 'alienating Republicans' -- and it's not just over her handling of ICE LetMyPeopleVote Feb 5 #2

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LetMyPeopleVote

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2. Kristi Noem 'alienating Republicans' -- and it's not just over her handling of ICE
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 08:29 PM
Feb 5

Noem has pissed off a ton of voters. It will be interesting to see how much bad press and polling can occur before trump fires her.

Kristi Noem ‘alienating Republicans’ — and it’s not just over her handling of ICE

#TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2026-02-05T23:20:40.000Z

https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-2675103620/

Republicans have started to ramp up criticism over Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — and not just over her handling of ICE and the growing public backlash after two agents killed American citizens — but also tensions over her leadership of FEMA.

As Noem tries to manage the fallout over the Trump administration's harsh immigration actions, "the embattled Noem faces a litany of other dysfunctions in her department that also imperil her tenure," according to a Politico report published Thursday.

"President Donald Trump has insisted Noem will not lose her job," Politico reported. "But her handling of other things under her agency’s sprawling remit – from disaster relief to the gutting of the nation’s cybersecurity agency – is increasingly alienating Republicans at a time when she needs them most."

A number of Republicans have begun to call out Trump and Noem, who is slated to testify in March before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“You’ve got to get adults in the room,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told Politico. “Get people in there who actually have the kind of experience you need to run large, complex organizations. And there’s a lot, by the way, in this Cabinet that do that. It’s just not her.”
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