Noem agrees to testify before Senate Judiciary in March

Source: The Hill

01/26/26 6:51 PM ET


Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in early March, a spokesperson for the committee’s chair, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), confirmed to The Hill on Monday. Noem is expected to testify on March 3, according to Grassley’s office, for one round of questioning, and senators will each be allotted 10 minutes for questions.

The confirmation comes amid fresh scrutiny of Noem’s handling of her post after federal officials fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both 37-year-old Minneapolis residents, during demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations just this month.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, ranking member Dick Durbin (Ill.), nodded to the growing calls for Noem’s impeachment, in a statement responding to Grassley’s announcement of her upcoming testimony. “Secretary Noem 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 [Department of Homeland Security] Secretary at that time,” Durbin said in a statement.

“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. And she expects us to rubber stamp her record-breaking budget in the meantime,” he continued.

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