BREAKING: Rep. Eric Swalwell Calls For Kristi Noem To Resign Following Alex Padilla Incident – The Hill
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) called for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to resign after Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was forcibly removed and later handcuffed at her Thursday press conference in Los Angeles.
“Kristi Noem should resign for what has happened under her watch. No one asked for this. We were promised violent criminals would be deported. Instead, they deported a four-year-old American citizen battling cancer, they arrested a US Marshal over the weekend, a US citizen and now a US senator, the second member of Congress in 45 days, who’s been arrested,” Swalwell said in a brief interview with NewsNation on Thursday.
“No one asked for this. It’s chaos, and her agents are running around, masked like 1800-bank robber you know, suspects or the KGB officers in Russia. This is not what America looks like. So she should come to Congress. They should take the masks off, and they should stop terrorizing families,” the House Democrat told NewsNation’s Joe Khalil.
The Trump administration fired back at Swalwell, with the White House communications director Steven Cheung writing Thursday on X that the lawmaker is “spewing lies because he’s an absolute joke of a person who is unserious about his job. These are the rantings of either a madman or a puppet.”
