Kristi Noem cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Friday, teeing up her final confirmation vote for early Sunday.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) moved a step closer to leading the Department of Homeland Security as the Senate voted on Friday to advance her to a final confirmation vote. Senators voted 61-39 to break a filibuster on Noem’s nomination on Friday evening.

The Senate is scheduled to hold the confirmation vote for Gov. Kristi Noem as President Trump's DHS secretary on Sunday.

The Senate voted late Friday to advance South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s nomination to be Homeland Security secretary, setting up a final and likely bipartisan vote to confirm her later this weekend. Senators voted 61-39 to end a filibuster on Noem’s nomination, all but assuring her confirmation.

Noem's role as Homeland Security secretary is expected to be more limited in scope than her predecessors’, sources familiar with the Trump transition tell NBC News.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is expected to cruise through the process to confirmation after surviving a fairly quiet hearing that lasted less than three hours.

The tension between both parties goes back to comments Noem made in 2024 accusing tribal leaders of enabling drug cartels

Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faced questioning Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security. Noem, the daughter of a farmer and a former representative from South Dakota, is being questioned before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was postponed by two days. Noem will appear before

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