Kristi Noem tried to save her job in early March with her testimony before Congress. It was Noem’s last gasp before she leftlet go by Trump, who has assigned her a new position where she will likely never be seen again.
The problem was that Noem did not testify alone. It appears she has told multiple lies to Congress, and Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are not letting Noem’s lies pass them by for one key reason.
The statute of limitations for Noem’s referral for prosecution is longer than Trump’s remaining term in office.
The ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Jamie Raskin and Dick Durbin, wrote a letter to the DOJ referring Noem for prosecution for lying to Congress.
Durbin and Raskin wrote to AG Pam Bondi:
We write to refer to evidence showing that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem repeatedly misled the Senate Judiciary Committee during her testimony on March 3, 2026, and the House Committee on the Judiciary during her testimony on March 4, 2026.
Some of her statements appear to violate criminal statutes prohibiting perjury and knowingly making false statements to Congress. Under 18 USC §1001, it is a federal crime for any individual to “knowingly…[] any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation… [w]relating to … any investigation or review conducted under the authority of a committee, subcommittee, committee, or office of Congress, in accordance with applicable rules of the House or Senate.” Under 18 USC §1621, it is also a federal crime for any individual, “after taking an oath before a court of competent jurisdiction,” “willfully[] as true any material matter which he does not believe to be true.”
Democrats explained how the former DHS secretary dodged testimony, then detailed a series of lies that Noem allegedly said under oath.
