DHS Staff Turnover Hits Record High; They Replaced Experience With Chaos

KEY POINTS

•Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski have fired or demoted about 80% of ICE leadership since early 2025 to push arrest goals.
•They pressured Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott to quit despite his Senate-confirmed status and ousted his leadership team.
•Meanwhile, DHS artfully saved $1.3 billion by cutting approximately 6,400 employees across FEMA, TSA, CISA, and other agencies while leakers faced felony threats.

In a plot twist no one asked for, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her factotum, Corey Lewandowski, turned DHS into the VIP club of high-stress quitters and finger-pointed leakers. By 2026, they had demoted or axed 80% of ICE leadership, including acting director Caleb Vitello last February, then ghosted Madison Sheehan before she could make Congress—a political career hopscotch worthy of a Netflix reality show. At Customs and Border Protection, Commissioner Rodney Scott was pressured harder to flee than a California wildfire—despite Senate confirmation. Amid this, polygraphs thirsty for disloyalty judged America's defenders while DHS celebrated $1.3 billion in savings, mostly thanks to empty desks, and TSA following 2,000 employees out the revolving door. Meanwhile, acting ICE chief Todd Lyons praised Lewandowski like a cult leader, proving loyalty fashion is alive and firing. The ultimate DHS team-building exercise: turnover so rampant it makes The Bachelor look steady.

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Noem and Lewandowski fired more people than a malfunctioning fireworks show, all while celebrating $1.3 billion saved by replacing workers with ghost suits.

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