WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release:

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Blumenthal Statement on the Firing of Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after President Trump announced that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem had been fired from her position: