Republican Thom Tillis delivered harsh remarks during Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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In Washington, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced sharp questioning on Capitol Hill Tuesday
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starting her testimony by blaming Democrats for the ongoing funding fight over her department
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Noem told the Senate Judiciary Committee the dispute over DHS funding is harmful to national security
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arguing the department is being disrupted even as the administration touts what it calls major immigration enforcement gains
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The latest Democrat-led shutdown of DHS is reckless, it's unnecessary, and it undermines the American national security, and it harms the men and women who work at DHS and their families
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At a time when we've produced the most secure border in history and removed nearly 3 million illegal aliens from our country, disrupting the department responsible for those gains is indefensible
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The most forceful criticism did not come from Democrats. Republican Senator Tom Tillis, who you see here, of North Carolina, delivered a blistering rebuke of Noam's leadership
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accusing her department of detaining American citizens and saying immigration enforcement under her watch has been, in his words, a disaster
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Watch. We just want numbers. We want 1 a day 6 a day 9 a day because numbers matter right No they don matter Quality matters not quantity quality And what we seen is a disaster under your leadership Ms Noem
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a disaster. What we've seen is innocent people getting detained that turn out are American
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citizens. I could talk about the culture that's been created here with Stephen Miller aiding and
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betting. In one of the most striking moments of the hearing, the Republican senator turned to a
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controversial story from Noam's memoir, where she described killing her 14-month-old dog after
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calling it untrainable. Tillis used Noam's own story to question her judgment. I train dogs
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all right? And you are a farmer. You should know better. You should know that if you're going out
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to a hunting lodge and you're putting pheasants out and you're putting dogs out, you don't take
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a puppy out there. A 14-month-old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that
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dog because you had not invested the appropriate time and training, and then you have the audacity
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to go into a book and say it's a leadership lesson about tough choices. The tense exchange
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underscores growing frustration with Noam's leadership, including from some members of her
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own party, as you saw, as Congress continues to scrutinize immigration enforcement and the
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Minneapolis shootings that left two Americans dead
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