Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said the firing of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem went “really well,” signaling to President Donald Trump he can make changes within his administration without any turmoil.
Trump announced on Thursday that Attorney General Pam Bondi was stepping down from the administration and moving into the private sector, following reports that the president was considering firing her.
“The president has seen he can make changes he wants without having a whole lot of hoopla,” York said Thursday on Fox News’s America Reports.
Bondi is the second Cabinet-level official that Trump has fired within the last month.
In March, Trump fired Noem and replaced her with then-Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), after weeks of bipartisan criticisms over her handling of immigration enforcement, awarding government contracts, and FEMA.
York said Noem’s firing “went really well” because things within the Department of Homeland Security are no longer a “big drama.”
“The president [fired Noem]. He found a good replacement. The replacement was quickly confirmed in the Senate,” York said. “Things are moving now, and they’re not a big drama.”
Leading up to both firings, the Trump administration had a “remarkably stable” Cabinet compared to his first administration, York said.
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York highlighted that at this time within the first Trump administration, the president had fired three Cabinet-level officials.
“There had been a lot of turnover [in Trump’s first administration] and a lot of comments this time around that it was a much more stable administration,” York said.
