Noem denies congressional testimony led to her ouster as DHS head

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Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem denied on Tuesday that her congressional testimony from March was a flashpoint that ultimately led to her dismissal as a Cabinet member.

“I know it seemed that way to the American public, but the president and I had been talking about it for about a week or two before that,” she said on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria. “We knew there might be a transition, and we had conversations about it.”

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