Donald Trump announced that he is replacing Kristi Noem, the Interior Secretary linked to the killing of two citizens in Minneapolis by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) police, which had led to multi-day protests earlier this winter. She will be succeeded, from March 31, by Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin. The U.S. president stated that Noem will be reassigned to a security initiative he plans to announce over the weekend.

Democratic spokesperson Hakeem Jeffries tersely commented on her departure: “Good riddance. She was a total disaster.” He added, however, that “changing one person isn’t enough. We need policy changes that are bold, radical, transformative, and meaningful.”

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer also added: “I don’t trust anyone in charge of this agency while Trump is president, given the policies he supported, including how ICE was structured.”

Noem’s response to the killings of two citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, was to claim that they had been involved in acts of “terrorism.”

Meanwhile, rumors circulated about her romantic relationship with her close adviser, Corey Lewandowski, both married. According to The Guardian, the couple traveled on a luxury 737 Max jet with a private bedroom, purchased with ministry funds supposedly for “high-profile deportations,” costing $70 million. At one point, Lewandowski fired a pilot who had left one of Noem’s blankets on the plane but had to rehire him later, as there was no one else to fly them back.

Even Republicans criticized the fact that the ministry had given $220 million to a company connected to Noem for creating ads to promote her personal image.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis had called for her resignation. He publicly attacked her for admitting in her autobiography that during a hunting trip, she had killed her 14-month-old dog. He said: “I am a dog trainer. You should know not to take a 14-month-old dog, essentially in its adolescence, on a hunting trip. And then you have the audacity to present its killing as a leadership lesson.”

Of course, her firing also became a subject of satire, with Jimmy Fallon commenting, referring to her cosmetic procedures, that “according to Noem herself, ‘if my face could move, I would now look sad.’”