Overview

• At the July 2 Homeland Security Advisory Council meeting, Noem publicly asked for strategies to fire staff who “don’t support what we’re doing.”
• She argued that many career employees had been underutilized under the previous administration and labeled the workforce overstaffed.
• Noem asserted that morale is improving, saying personnel take their oaths seriously when empowered to carry out policies.
• She reaffirmed plans to reshape FEMA after earlier proposing its elimination and later describing a “reorientation” of the agency.
• The council’s lineup of Trump loyalists highlights the broader effort to politicize DHS leadership and enforce ideological conformity.