Kristi Noem: We Will Remove Those DHS Employees Who Aren’t Committed to Keeping America Safe

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NOEM: "I think it needs to be shrunk and get these agencies back on mission. The bureaucracy is large. It's over 260,000 employees and, before, many of them weren't even showing up to work. Many of even the FEMA folks had the option if they wanted to show up for a disaster or not. That's not going to be the way it is anymore. So we're going to have them show up to work. We're going to start going through who is fulfilling their mission and who isn't, and be removing those that aren't committed to keeping America safe. The mission of DHS is to secure the American homeland. That's virtually every person who comes into this country and leaves this country, every product that comes into this country or leaves through our ports or other mechanisms, and also cybersecurity, so anything that happens on the Internet and goes into the country or out of the country. So, the jurisdiction of DHS is large, but I don't think that the number of people determines our success. It's how much they're committed to doing their job and doing it with excellence."