参议院59比34确认诺姆任国土安全部长：当日宣誓就职、辞去南达科他州州长职务
2025年1月25日，美国参议院在华盛顿特区以 59 票赞成、34 票反对，确认南达科他州州长 Kristi Noem 出任国土安全部长。52 名共和党参议员全部投下赞成票，另有 7 名民主党参议员支持，她由此成为国土安全部第八任部长。
Noem 的提名此前推进迅速：参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会 1 月 17 日举行确认听证会，1 月 20 日以 13 比 2 将提名送交全院。参议院在周六加开会议完成表决，她成为本届内阁第四位获确认的成员，此前国务卿鲁比奥、中央情报局局长 John Ratcliffe 与国防部长 Pete Hegseth 已先后过关。
表决当天，Noem 在艾森豪威尔行政办公楼由最高法院大法官 Clarence Thomas 监誓宣誓就职，并辞去南达科他州州长职务，副州长 Larry Rhoden 继任州长。Noem 自 2019 年起任南达科他州州长，是该州首位女州长；此前她曾于 2011 年至 2019 年任该州唯一的联邦众议员。
国土安全部是特朗普政府执行边境安全与移民执法议程的核心部门，主管海关与边境保护局（CBP）、移民与海关执法局（ICE）、公民及移民服务局（USCIS）、联邦紧急事务管理署（FEMA）与海岸警卫队等机构。Noem 在确认听证会上表示，守住边境与打击非法移民将是她的首要任务，并主张缩减该部网络安全与基础设施安全局（CISA）的规模与职责范围。
特朗普 2024 年 11 月 12 日宣布提名 Noem 出任这一职务。她上任之际，新政府就职首周已连续发布多项移民执法行政行动，国土安全部随即成为执行一线。
（来源：美国参议院）
Senate Confirms Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary 59-34; She Is Sworn In the Same Day and Resigns as South Dakota Governor
On January 25, 2025, in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Senate confirmed South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security by a vote of 59 to 34. All 52 Republican senators voted in favor, joined by seven Democratic senators, making her the eighth secretary of the department.
Her nomination had moved quickly: the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held her confirmation hearing on January 17 and advanced the nomination to the full Senate 13 to 2 on January 20. Working on a Saturday, the Senate completed the vote, making Noem the fourth member of the new Cabinet to be confirmed, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Later that day, Noem was sworn in at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and resigned as governor of South Dakota, where Lieutenant Governor Larry Rhoden succeeded her. Noem had served as South Dakota's governor since 2019 — the state's first female governor — after representing the state as its sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019.
The Department of Homeland Security is the agency at the center of the Trump administration's border security and immigration enforcement agenda, overseeing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Coast Guard, among others. At her confirmation hearing, Noem said securing the border and combating illegal immigration would be her top priorities, and argued that the department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) should be reduced in scale and realigned.
President Trump had announced on November 12, 2024, that he would nominate Noem for the post. She took office as the new administration spent its first week issuing a series of immigration enforcement actions, placing her department on the front line of carrying them out.
(Source: U.S. Senate)
来源：美国参议院
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图片来源：图：国土安全部长 Kristi Noem 官方肖像。（美国国土安全部，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons） / Photo: Official portrait of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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