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Kristi Noem: “We have eliminated those functions within CISA.”

Featuring: Kristi Noem, Republican | Secretary of Homeland Security, Former Governor of South Dakota | National

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Senate Appropriations Hearing on DHS Budget with Secretary Kristi Noem

Published | Video Starts at 1:27:02

They were defining what was misinformation, disinformation. They were out doing election security missions that were censorship and deciding what was truth and what wasn't truth. And We have eliminated those functions within CISA. CISA was created to be an entity that supported small and medium businesses and also critical infrastructure, our electrical grid, our water systems that are vulnerable to hacking attempts and influence from foreign countries, but enemies of the United States of America. (1:27:02–1:27:06)

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Asserts that the functions related to defining misinformation and disinformation have been eliminated from CISA.

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