While protestors marched for Alex Pretti, the nurse killed by federal agents days earlier, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wasn’t packing her bags. She was sitting in the White House. They even spent time chatting about the renovations to the new White House ballroom. pic.twitter.com/WNd4ZfxIdD — FactPost (@factpostnews) January 27, 2026That friendship is the primary reason Kristi Noem is still employed. On his way out of the White House, Trump stopped to clarify the bottom line to the press: Noem isn’t going anywhere.