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Noem was hounded by criticism last year after detailing in her book how she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog in a gravel pit.
The governor said in her book that her dog, Cricket, was “less than worthless” and “untrainable.”
Later, she defended her actions despite criticism.
“We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm,” she said last year in a post to X.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is set to kick off Noem’s questioning around 9 a.m.
Noem will face questioning from the committee’s members before the committee votes on whether to advance her nomination to the full chamber.
Each senator on the committee will have about seven minutes to ask Noem questions.
The full Senate will not vote on Noem until after Trump is inaugurated.
Noem is set to go before a Senate committee for a confirmation hearing today. But even if she is successful at the hearing and is confirmed, as she is expected to be, her role as homeland security secretary is expected to be more limited in scope than that of her predecessors, sources familiar with the Trump transition told NBC News.
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