Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis called Tuesday for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign following the Jan. 24 killing of Alex Pretti by border agents — making them the first GOP members of Congress to demand the Cabinet secretary step down. “I think that what she’s done in Minnesota should be disqualifying,” Tillis (R-NC) told reporters on Capitol Hill. “She should be out of a job. I mean, really, it’s just amateurish. It’s making the president look bad on policies that he won on.
“He won on a strong message on immigration,” the North Carolinian went on. “And now nobody’s talking about that. They’re not talking about securing the border. They’re talking about the incompetence of the leader of homeland security.” Murkowski (R-Alaska) initially said that it was “probably time for [Noem] to step down” before taking a firmer position in telling NBC News: “Yes, she should go.”
