Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Kristi Noem goes to the Senate today for a grilling on 2026 spending plans by Democrats on the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.
The Senate hearing is chaired by Rand Paul (R-KY), who has touted visa workers, and includes seven Democrats who have a political incentive to grandstand for applause from opponents of President Donald Trump’s immigration reform policy.
The Democrats include Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who is promoting a radical bill that would impoverish ordinary Americans by dramatically expanding the inflow of consumers, renters, and workers via “legal pathways.”
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The GOP side of the committee includes several moderates and centrists, such as Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), but also includes Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), who fronted the establishment’s failed pro-migration border bill in 2024.
The line-up may pressure Noem to describe the administration’s plans to reform the visa worker programs, which import blue-collar and white-collar temporary migrants for blue-collar and white-collar jobs that would otherwise go to Americans and their high-tech machines.
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