Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they'd now oppose her in the wake of Trump's aggressive deportation plans and last week's incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.

“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”

Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Technically Dems didn’t confirm her. Every dem voted nay on several cabinet picks, such as fox news anchor Pete Hegseth who also lost 3 GOP votes and was still confirmed.

    Even those that voted to confirm Noem had a net zero impact.

          • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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            None of this would be happening if people didn’t vote Republicans into power, and very few of these cabinet picks would pass with a simple DNC senate majority.

            Why blame Democrats for things Republicans do?

            • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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              None of this would be happening if people didn’t vote Republicans into power, and very few of these cabinet picks would pass with a simple DNC senate majority. dems did more than just be republicans lite or controlled opposition.

              Why blame Democrats for things Republicans do?

              Why do dems keep working with or compromising with Republicans?

              • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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                Whenever the DNC gets into power we get expanded medical coverage, consumer protections, union contracts which favor the workers, environmental protections and the IRS audits the rich. And that’s without even proper majorities without caucus.

                You’ve intentionally blinded yourself to reality.

                • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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                  We wish they did those things.

                  Again why do they keep compromising with Republicans to water down everything?

                  You’ve intentionally blinded yourself to reality.

                  Says the one saying don’t talk about dems when they say they regret voting for Trump nominations

                  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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                    It takes less time for you to make but bullshit than it would take me to cite every example of the above statements.