Kristi Noem might have stepped into a "trap" during her recent Senate hearing as reports suggest Donald Trump is looking to fire her, but according to some on social media, her prospective replacement could be far "worse."

On Thursday, the conservative National Review reported that Trump was "furious" with Noem over her handling of questions about a taxpayer-funded ad campaign while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, and echoed other reports that the president is potentially planning to fire her. Noem was pressed by GOP Sen. John Kennedy as to whether or not Trump approved the $220 million campaign, to which the Homeland Security secretary said that he had.

"It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy said.

As a result of those answers, Trump has privately begun suggesting that he is open to finally getting rid of Noem after months of controversy. Reactions to this report have emerged across social media, with senior CNN political reporter Aaron Blake suggesting that Noem fell for a trap set by Kennedy.

"John Kennedy was basically laying a bunch of traps around Noem and waiting for her to walk into one," Blake posted to X. "Judging by this report, it worked."

"Seems the questioning from Noem’s [Senate Judiciary Committee] hearing that most hurt her standing with the president came not from a Democrat but from a Republican," congressional reporter Benjamin S. Weiss added in his own post.

"It remains unclear whether Trump, known for openly floating personnel changes in private conversations with allies, will follow through on the ouster," Audrey Fahlberg, author of the report from National Review, posted to X after sharing the story. "Trump has so far resisted any high-profile Cabinet reshuffles during his second term, and insisted in early February that he had no plans to remove Noem from her post following her handing of the federal officer-involved fatal shootings in Minneapolis earlier this year."

According to National Review, Trump is reportedly considering staunch MAGA ally and Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin as a replacement for Noem at the head of DHS. According to Democratic strategist and MS NOW contributor Max Burns, this would hardly be much of an improvement.

"Firing Noem to hire Markwayne Mullin is the definition of going from bad to worse," Burns wrote in a post to X.

"Ah so it looks like Markwayne's embarrassing brown nosing may pay dividends," Daily Kos reporter Emily C. Singer wrote in her post reacting to the news.

"If you want someone who won’t say something embarrassing when they get a tough question, this is an… interesting… backup," Benjy Sarlin, senior political editor for Vox, posted in reaction to the news about Mullin.

"Oh Lord. Dumb and Dumber Part III," podcaster Reed Galen wrote in a post to X.

One of President Donald Trump's newest Cabinet appointees is already facing calls to be fired, according to Axios, with his own hardline "MAGA enforcers" saying that he is "too soft" for the job.

Previously serving as a Republican senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin was Trump's choice to replace Kristi Noem at the head of the Department of Homeland Security after her departure. Following on from her tumultuous and chaotic tenure, some in Washington expressed hope that Mullin would be able to lead the agency in a more even-keeled and professional manner, but now, his approach might be too subdued for the tastes of Trump's more hardcore anti-immigration supporters.

"Just [4.5] months after replacing Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary, Markwayne Mullin is feeling the heat from President Trump's MAGA enforcers," the outlet reported. "Mullin provoked border czar Tom Homan with an ICE nominee who has limited immigration experience, had to walk back changes in immigration policy, and angered the MAGA base with talk of immigration reform. Some MAGA activists see Mullin, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, as too soft on immigration and are already agitating for his ouster."

Mullin's conflict with Homan stems from his recent nomination of Lance Schroyer, "former Oklahoma state highway trooper and a member of Mullin's security detail," to lead ICE. Schroyer notably lacks any relevant immigration enforcement experience, "except for participating in a 287(g) agreement, a partnership that allows state and local officers to assist ICE with certain enforcement duties."

"I interviewed countless individuals, because we wanted... someone that could also be confirmed," Mullin told Fox News. "And here you have Lance that was literally right in front of me the whole time."

The nomination also drew withering criticism from Steve Bannon, the outspoken MAGA media figure and former top Trump adviser.

"ICE is an enormously complicated job," Bannon said. "And now with the heightened visibility on interior enforcement, it may be in the top three or four hardest jobs in government. You can't pick a cop from Oklahoma and think he's going to walk in and be able to do that, right? You're asking too much of somebody."

"Mullin has given Trump supporters other reasons to second-guess his decision-making at DHS," Axios added. "During a speech two weekends ago at the National Governors Association meeting in Oklahoma, Mullin suggested he backed immigration reform. MAGA's keyboard warriors saw that as Mullin supporting disguised amnesty for unauthorized immigrants, which they oppose. After fatal officer-involved shootings in Texas and Maine this summer, Mullin supported a pause on ICE agents stopping vehicles to make arrests. Trump quickly overturned the pause, with Homan's support."

Mike Howell, a former DHS attorney now heading up the Mass Deportation Coalition advocacy group, spoke about Mullin's time as DHS head, saying he "certainly hasn't given any hope to the true believers... that the [deportation] numbers will go up."

President Donald Trump's latest addition to this Cabinet has been caught out in a new potential scandal, according to the Daily Mail, with insider sources at the Department of Homeland Security exposing his alleged effort to land his wife a job.

Markwayne Mullin was appointed as the new head of DHS following the acrimonious departure of Kristi Noem from the position. Since taking over, reports have indicated that he has impressed some within the Trump administration for his quieter and more professional style of leadership, in contrast to the showy chaos of his predecessor.

That could be about to change, however, as the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday, what could turn into a bruising nepotism scandal for the secretary, as four insiders have come forward with allegations that he has attempted to get his wife, Christie Mullin, hired at the agency — and he has reportedly been quite insistent about it.

"Mullin, 48, is accused of trying to obtain government employee status for his wife, 47, so that he does not have to pay for her airline ticket when she flies, according to sources familiar with DHS and ICE," the Mail's report detailed. "The secretary frequently travels on his $70 million government jet to fly home to his family in Oklahoma, often leaving on Thursday mornings and not returning until the following Monday afternoon, multiple DHS insiders said."

According to three of the sources who spoke to the outlet, Mullin has repeatedly floated the prospect of bringing his wife on as a Special Government Employee, a part-time consultant or temporary employee, allowing her to work a maximum of 130 days a year at a rate of $65-70 per hour.

“He pitches the idea on the regular," one of the sources said. "While Mullin is busy trying to recruit his wife to DHS, ICE facilities are being overrun by leftist mobs, enraging the base ahead of midterms.”

Another source insinuated that reports of Mullin's solid reputation at DHS might be a bit misleading, accusing him of trying to skirt his work and leaving key programs rudderless.

"Mullin seems to think DHS requires less work than a senator, and it shows," the source alleged. "Meanwhile, ICE has no direction."

"The allegations come as flight logs obtained by the Daily Mail expose a pattern of frequent, lavish travel back to his home state of Oklahoma on a $70 million private government jet - even as his department faces intense scrutiny over a terrifying security failure," the report added.

While Mullin was on hand alongside Trump at a press conference following the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, the Mail alleged that he "was already preparing to make a swift exit from the capital."

"It turns out, shortly after a briefing that left the public with no answers regarding the gunman's motive or the haunting possibility of a second shooter, Mullin fled Washington on his private jet, the Daily Mail can exclusively report," the outlet added. "The abrupt departure has raised serious questions about his leadership during one of the gravest security breaches in modern American history."

President Donald Trump had big plans for outspoken MAGA ally Kari Lake, but with those plans having thoroughly imploded, a new MS NOW analysis explained how she has been given a familiar "consolation prize."

Lake first emerged as a news anchor in Phoenix, Arizona, before making the jump to politics as an avowed supporter of Trump and the MAGA movement. Despite high hopes for her as a future star for the Republican Party, the transition largely flopped, as she lost the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race to Democrat Katie Hobbs and the 2024 Senate race to Democrat Ruben Gallego.

With no actual electoral success to her name, Trump attempted to install her as the next director for Voice of America, the international broadcaster funded by the U.S. government, amid plans to gut the institution and reshape it into a more right-wing form with the help of One America News. This effort, too, fell flat after a judge ruled that she was ineligible to serve at the head of VOA, invalidating her tenure and reversing the mass layoffs she had overseen.

In the wake of all that failure, Trump on Monday nominated Lake to serve as the new ambassador to Jamaica, echoing an emerging pattern of the president placing close allies in key diplomatic roles.

"President Trump on Monday appointed Kari Lake, a fierce ally of the president who had led the administration’s efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups, as the next ambassador to Jamaica," the New York Times reported this week. "Her appointment, if confirmed by the Senate, would end her tumultuous time at the parent agency for federally funded news groups that broadcast to countries with limited press freedom, such as China, Russia and Iran."

Writing about the development on Tuesday, Steve Benen, a longtime contributor and producer for MS NOW, wrote that the appointment of Lake fit a growing pattern from the administration and its handling of MAGA allies with failed political ambitions.

"Lake’s nomination coincided with the president also tapping Pennsylvania’s Doug Mastriano — another prominent Republican election denier who launched a gubernatorial campaign that failed — to serve as U.S. ambassador to Slovakia," Benen wrote. "The far-right state senator will also need to be confirmed by the Republican-led Senate. Time will tell when and whether Lake and Mastriano receive the support they’ll need on Capitol Hill, but their nominations are emblematic of a larger pattern: The White House sure does like to hand out ambassadorships to those whose earlier political plans didn’t quite work out."

Benen further detailed the various names who received a similar parachute from Trump: Mike Waltz was named U.N. ambassador after being ousted as White House national security adviser; former GOP Rep. Billy Long went from an "incredibly short tenure" leading the IRS to serving as ambassador to Iceland; and, John Giordano went from a failed interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey to serving as the ambassador to Namibia.

"Even Kristi Noem, after her many failures as the head of the Department of Homeland Security, made the transition to a diplomatic role as 'special envoy' to the Shield of the Americas, a poorly defined security initiative for the Western Hemisphere," Benen concluded. "As an Associated Press report summarized last year, 'Diplomacy may be soft power, but in President Donald Trump’s administration, it’s also lately a soft landing.'"

President Donald Trump’s former Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, threatened national security, pointed out a former adviser to President George W. Bush on Wednesday — and that should be the focus of coverage regarding the many scandals surrounding Noem and her husband.

“The Daily Mail reports that it has reviewed hundreds of messages involving Byron and three women ...” Steve Schmidt, a former Republican strategist who consulted the last GOP president before Trump, said in his recent Substack post.

Schmidt went on to describe the litany of controversies surrounding the Noems, including Kristi Noem’s alleged affair with her unqualified adviser Corey Lewandowski and her bragging about murdering a puppy after it did not properly hunt despite inadequate training. He particularly singled out Noem spending millions in taxpayer dollars on glorified photo opportunities for herself.

“Over and over again, Kristi Noem wanted attention on herself,” Lewandowski said. “Look at the photographs. Look at the pictures. Here's Kristi Noem in the Coast Guard. Here's Kristi Noem in a fire costume. Here's Kristi Noem. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me.” Yet despite these moral offenses, as well as “signing contracts on dozens of warehouses across the country, paying five times their value, eight times their value, to turn them into concentration camps, to turn them into prisons,” Schmidt remarked that Noem now wants Americans’ prayers after her husband’s photographs leaked.

“There is no official who has abused more people, broken more laws, or engaged in more corrupt acts — besides Trump himself,” Schmidt said. And Bryon Noem, despite leaving his wife’s side when she refused to deny her alleged affair with Lewandowski, did not seem to object to his wife’s violence and murdering toward innocent people while Secretary of Homeland Security.

“The simple truth is: Kristi Noem, when American citizens were murdered, she called them terrorists,” Schmidt said, playing a clip in which she used that term.

“And you know what?” Schmidt concluded. “She doesn't deserve any sympathy. She doesn't deserve any respect. And she absolutely doesn't deserve any of our restraint. Byron Noem and Kristi Noem were up to no good.”

Despite Schmidt’s harsh take on Bryon Noem, the New York Times reported in the aftermath of the photo leak that many of his South Dakota neighbors depicted him in sympathetic terms.

“These men all knew Bryon Noem as the nice, tall insurance salesman who married Kristi Arnold, the town beauty queen who grew up to be governor,” the Times reported. “But now there were these pictures.”

The article later added, “In interviews with locals and friends of the couple before and after The Daily Mail published its pictures, the prevailing sense that emerged was this: People can’t help but feel sorry for Bryon Noem. His marriage had been the talk of the prairie since long before Tuesday.”

The reported that “one man who was in there Tuesday morning looked at the report in The Daily Mail and shook his head sorrowfully. He didn’t know what to believe about Bryon Noem. Only that he liked him.”

The individual then said, “Such a nice man. It just tears me up.”

Noem was fired as Secretary of Homeland Security last month when a senator from her own party, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), publicly criticized her for spending $220 million in taxpayer funds on self-promotional advertisements.

"It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy told Noem at the time. Trump later denied authorizing the ads and cited Noem’s answer to Kennedy as a reason for her termination.

Republican senators are growing increasingly frustrated with President Donald Trump's defense chief, according to The Hill, "losing confidence" as the Pentagon descends into chaos.

On Monday, the outlet reported that several GOP lawmakers were privately hoping to see Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as the next major firing by Trump, citing his endless feuds with top military leaders that have seen various respected names forced out, including Navy Secretary John Phelan and Army Chief of Staff Randy George, as well as his reported conflict with the well-liked Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. Some of these senators, speaking anonymously, admitted that Hegseth would not be confirmed again if his nomination were put forward again today.

These recent issues, the outlet explained, have come on the heels of longstanding worries about his fitness for the extremely important office that he holds.

"One Republican senator who requested anonymity said there have long been questions within the Senate GOP conference over Hegseth’s lack of experience managing a large and complex bureaucracy, as well as leeriness about his unconventional and often brash leadership style," The Hill explained. "The lawmaker, however, said confidence in Hegseth has dropped among Republicans because of his battles with senior military leaders who have strong relations with policymakers on Capitol Hill."

“The hollowing out of incredible leadership at the Pentagon has been a big concern,” the anonymous senator told the outlet. “It really came to a tipping point when Gen. George was dismissed.”

Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina senator retiring from office soon, was among the few lawmakers who did not speak anonymously about their issues with Hegseth, questioning his ability to manage an agency so vast and complicated as the Pentagon, when his only past military management experience saw him in command of "30 or 40 people" at most.

"I think he’s missing the mark on personnel," Tillis said. "He has separated some of the most extraordinary generals that we’ve had in play. I don’t quite know what’s going on there."

He added: “Now he’s got an organization that’s much larger, much more complex than anything he’s done. I think he’s making some less-than-ideal personnel decisions.”

Tillis, who famously cast the "pivotal" vote to confirm Hegseth last year, said that, as of now, "there’s no question he’s got a failing grade," and noted that "in some respects he’s displaying the exact lack of experience" that caused Kristi Noem to get axed as Homeland Security secretary.

Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican, was another name who spoke with The Hill on the record, calling George's dismissal a "mistake" and expressing bewilderment about the reasoning for it.

"I have the greatest admiration and respect for Gen. Randy George. He’s probably one of the finest officers the United States Army has ever produced. It was a mistake for Secretary Hegseth to dismiss him,” Ernst said. “As far as the reason for his dismissal, I wouldn’t even begin to know what it was."

President Donald Trump may say his recently-fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “had numerous and spectacular results,” but a pro-Trump newspaper begs to differ.

“While Mr. Trump praised Ms. Noem’s ‘spectacular results,’ there’s no mistaking this move as anything other than a fed-up President cutting loose an aide who made herself into a serious liability,” wrote The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board. They praised Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) for asking Noem about spending $220 million on television advertisements that prominently featured her, asking whether Trump previously approved these commercials. Although Noem insisted Trump had approved, Kennedy later said he had spoken to Trump and “his recollection and her recollection are different.”

According to CNN political reporter Aaron Blake, Kennedy set a trap for the increasingly-unpopular Noem that the former South Dakota governor walked right into.

"John Kennedy was basically laying a bunch of traps around Noem and waiting for her to walk into one," Blake posted to X. "Judging by this report, it worked." Congressional reporter Benjamin S. Weiss argued in his own post that it “seems the questioning from Noem’s [Senate Judiciary Committee] hearing that most hurt her standing with the president came not from a Democrat but from a Republican.”

In addition to Kennedy’s questions about her expensive advertising campaign, Noem also faced tough queries about her alleged extramarital affair with aide Corey Lewandowski, which she denied, and border agents’ killings of protester Alex Pretti and civilian Renee Good. Noem defended the killings by describing them, inaccurately, as domestic terrorists.

“The empowering of border czar Tom Homan amid the Minneapolis mess was a good step for Mr. Trump, since Mr. Homan is a professional who talks about prioritizing public safety and conducting ‘targeted’ ICE enforcement against known illegal aliens in a humane fashion,” the Journal wrote. “If Mr. Mullin is confirmed by the Senate, he can help the President by following the Homan approach and explaining it consistently without the political melodrama.”

According to an exclusive NBC News report, “the president decided to fire Noem due to 'a culmination of her many unfortunate leadership failures including the fallout in Minnesota, the ad campaign, the allegations of infidelity, the mismanagement of her staff, and her constant feuding with the heads of other agencies, including CBP and ICE.” Despite this private frustration, Trump publicly lauded Noem’s tenure.

"The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social. “I thank Kristi for her service at 'Homeland.'"

Republicans in the Senate are pushing President Donald Trump to get any and all firings done soon, according to lawmakers who spoke with Politico, over concerns that new appointees might not be confirmed before the midterms.

"If you’re a Cabinet official thinking of pursuing a new professional opportunity, Senate Republicans have a request: Now’s the time to call it quits," Politico explained in a Thursday morning report. "The departure this week of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who is following former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi out the door, has some GOP lawmakers pondering a larger Cabinet shakeup and what that could mean to an unsettled Senate floor schedule."

The Senate schedule is looking packed for the rest of the year, with just over six months left until the 2026 midterms, where it is no longer outside the realm of possibility that Republicans will lose their majority in the chamber. In addition to "a litany of measures they are negotiating with the House," the Senate will also have to consider "at least one potential party-line budget reconciliation bill" to keep the government funded and, possibly, fill a Supreme Court vacancy.

That does not leave a lot of wiggle room for many high-profile Cabinet appointments, which would also become more of a nightmare for the administration before a Democratic Congress.

“The number of working days are very limited,” Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, told Politico. “You just do the math. It’s a very compressed schedule.”

“As we get closer to the election… you never know what’s going to happen to the Senate,” another GOP senator told Politico anonymously.

"Tillis is among a group of Republican senators who believe Trump should make any further changes to his inner circle sooner rather than later to give the Senate maximum flexibility in confirming replacements," Politico explained. "Waiting, they fear, could mean significant delays in confirmations or worse if Democrats can retake the majority."

The outlet noted that no Republicans are publicly prepared to call out which Trump administration officials they think should be on the chopping block next. In private, however, "three privately fingered Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as someone they believe the president is likely to remove." Another lawmaker highlighted National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, questioning how long she "would remain in her post given her split with the president on recent issues such as the Iran war and a soon-to-lapse surveillance authority." Two of the anonymous Republicans also expressed doubts about FBI Director Kash Patel, given the recent reports about his excessive drinking and erratic behavior.

“He’s in a bad mood, so he’s letting a lot of them go,” one of the anonymous lawmakers said about Trump. “He’s preparing to really let a lot of them go.”

Sources within the Department of Homeland Security torched outgoing Secretary Kristi Noem's judgment after the revelation that she handed a key aviation contract to a CEO who previously led an airline company into bankruptcy, according to a new report from The Daily Beast.

Per the outlet's Friday report, during her time at the head of DHS, Noem awarded a $140 million federal contract to a two-year-old company called Daedalus Aviation. As part of the deal, the company would provide the agency with six Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to be used for deportation flights.

Eyebrows were raised, however, by Daedalus CEO Joshua Bustos and his prior leadership history. According to The Daily Beast, he previously served as the CEO for Safi Airways, the largest private airline in Afghanistan, starting in October 2015. Just two years later, however, the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority shuttered the company after it "failed to clear more than $16.7 million in outstanding taxes and debts."

"The carrier had been warned repeatedly before authorities moved to confiscate its assets in early September 2016," The Daily Beast's report explained. "It ceased operations days later."

The outlet continued: "In June 2019, Bustos’ appointment as chief commercial officer of SriLankan Airlines was questioned by some of the country’s parliamentarians, who cited his work at Safi Airways to argue that he had a questionable record in the industry. Six years later, Noem entrusted Bustos with one of the most significant aviation contracts in DHS history."

Speaking with The Daily Beast for the report, an anonymous DHS official called into question the judgment that led to Daedalus getting the massive contract.

“Given Bustos’ background, it should be asked of the U.S. government, why exactly was Daedalus Aviation chosen to head this vitally important project for the federal government?" the official said. "And who made the decision to choose them to lead this project?”

In the wake of President Donald Trump announcing her ouster from DHS, reports have surfaced about the contract mess Noem will be leaving behind and the questionable system she implemented. While heading up the agency, Noem insisted that all contracts over $100,000 had to be personally vetted and approved by her, meaning she was likely the one to make the call about Daedalus Aviation. According to an earlier Axios report, she will exit DHS with "dozens of pending contracts on her desk."

When President Donald Trump learned his then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem claimed he authorized a quarter-billion dollar ad campaign, he was reportedly as “mad as a momma wasp.”

“I was stunned when Noem answered categorically that the president approved every single bit of it,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told Fox News. “Later that day, I got a call from President Trump. He was mad as a mamma wasp. He said, ‘Kennedy, I hope you understand that I had nothing to do with this.’ I said, ‘I do believe you, Mr. President.'”

Kennedy added, “He was not happy. It was clear to me after that conversation that the secretary’s time at the department was limited. To be blunt, she was dead as fried chicken.”

The staunch pro-Trump Republican explained why he interrogated Noem about those ads.

“The fact that she spent a quarter of a billion dollars putting ads out across America –– a quarter of a billion dollars –– in which she was prominently displayed,” Kennedy explained. “They looked a great deal like political ads. And I found that breathtaking, and when I see what I perceived to be spending porn, I don’t care who does it. I’m going to call it out.”

When he asked Noem about the ad campaign earlier this week, Kennedy was skeptical that Trump would approve the pricey agenda item.

"It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy told Noem. By asking that question, and getting Noem to say Trump had authorized the expense, he set her up for her own termination.

"John Kennedy was basically laying a bunch of traps around Noem and waiting for her to walk into one," senior CNN political reporter Aaron Blake posted on X. "Judging by this report, it worked."

Noem did not merely disclose her controversial spending habits during the Senate hearing. According to Adrian Carrasquillo of The Bulwark, “Her department had arrested and deported DACA recipients—the ‘Dreamers’ who are shielded from deportation and have had work authorization since 2012—at unacceptable levels.”

The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger, while skeptical about Trump’s replacement for Noem, nevertheless expressed relief at her departure.

“Trump’s pick to replace her, Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, is a MAGA meathead of the highest order, but I’d hesitate to predict confidently that he’ll be any worse—at any rate, he’ll have his work cut out for him if he hopes to be,” wrote The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger. “And this isn’t nothing: We hope we won’t have to think about Corey Lewandowski’s sex life ever again.”

Egger’s hope may be premature. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) suggested earlier this week that Noem may have perjured herself during her testimony.

“Evidence suggests that your testimony was false,” Blumenthal wrote in a letter to Noem regarding her negative answer to the question, “Does Corey Lewandowski have a role in approving contracts, and if so, what is that role?” The New York Times subsequently cited department records showing Lewandowski had “personally approved contracts” and employees were under the impression his signature was a “green light” for spending.