Fox News host Laura Ingraham aimed South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds after he appeared ready to impede some or all of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks.
“Why does NDakota have a senator who is already undermining President-elect Trump?” Ingraham wrote, incorrectly claiming that Rounds is from North Dakota.
She then inserted a quote from a Politico article that said: “Sen. Mike Rounds (R-ND) said he came to Halifax with a message that there are still three branches of the U.S. government, and the Senate will guard its independence….”
For the record, Politico misstated that Rounds was from North Dakota.
That said, Trump nominated South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to be his Department of Homeland Security secretary because of her solid statements and actions aligning with the president-elect regarding the porous U.S. borders under the Biden-Harris regime.
As governor, Noem has taken a firm stance on immigration, calling the Biden administration’s border crisis an “invasion.” She has supported the construction of stronger physical barriers at the border and improved screening of refugees.
In 2021, South Dakota became the first state to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist Texas after the Biden-Harris administration failed to enforce immigration laws effectively. Since then, Noem has deployed troops to the border eight times.
In an X post in October, Noem said, “South Dakota doesn’t complain about things – we fix them…We will continue to do our part. We have another group of South Dakota National Guard soldiers scheduled to deploy to the Southern Border on a federal activation later this Fall. And we will continue to do everything we can to mitigate the cartels’ influence here at home.”
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