After Noem’s Dhs Firing By Trump, What Comes Next For Top Aide Corey Lewandowski

Kristi Noem has been ousted arsenic Homeland Security secretary, leaving her apical adviser, Corey Lewandowski, to look an uncertain governmental future.

President Donald Trump fired Noem from nan caput position arsenic she was successful Nashville for a conference.

Trump wrote connected Truth Social that Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma will return complete arsenic Homeland Security Secretary astatine nan extremity of nan month, and Noem will move to nan “Special Envoy for The Shield of nan Americas” position arsenic portion of a caller information inaugural successful nan Western Hemisphere.

Lewandowski has wielded awesome powerfulness astatine nan Department of Homeland Security by Noem’s broadside arsenic a typical authorities employee.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Lewandowski initially wanted to service arsenic Noem’s main of staff, but it was struck down by Trump retired of interest complete rumors of a romanticist narration betwixt he and Noem.

Noem called rumors of her having an matter pinch Lewandowski “tabloid garbage” during a House Judiciary Committee proceeding Wednesday.

Noem and Lewandowski, some joined to different people, person denied nan matter rumors.

During their clip astatine DHS, Noem and Lewandowski fired aliases demoted astir 80 percent of nan Immigration and Customs Enforcement section activity who had been astatine nan agency for a agelong clip earlier nan brace showed up, according to a Wall Street Journal study from past month.

Noem has faced scrutiny, including calls to resign, arsenic she led Trump’s monolithic migration crackdown. Criticism complete her activity reached a boiling constituent aft Renee Good and Alex Pretti were gunned down successful nan streets of Minneapolis by national migration agents successful January.

DHS officials judge Noem and Lewandowski spot nan agency arsenic a specified steppingstone successful their governmental careers, according to reporting from nan WSJ.

Lewandowski was Trump’s first run head successful nan 2016 election. He besides served arsenic an advisor for Trump’s 2020 and 2024 statesmanlike campaigns.

While it’s unclear whether Lewandowski will travel Noem arsenic she embarks connected nan caller information initiative, if his past jobs are immoderate indicator, Lewandowski will not beryllium leaving nan MAGA world anytime soon.

The Independent has reached retired to DHS for comment.