Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem‘s day in Congress started bad and got worse.

A hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee began with Democratic lawmakers calling for her to resign and devolved into protests, shouting matches and gotchas. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, opened the hearing with a call for Noem to step down, saying she “put [her] own interests above the department and violated the law.”

“You are making America less safe,” Thompson said. “Rather than sitting here and wasting your time and ours with more corruption, lies and lawlessness, I call on you to resign. Do a real service to the country.”

Democratic lawmakers drubbed Noem over her allegedly lawless tenure. Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., grilled Noem over deportations of asylum seekers, implying a

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