But don’t mistake that responsibility with good intentions. Just last week, “ICE Barbie” was boasting about allocating funds away from FEMA towards Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,” the $450 million migrant detention center erected in the Florida Everglades.

Democratic Sen. Tina Smith took a swipe at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for her love of ghoulish publicity stunts Thursday. ‘ICE Barbie’ Replying to a video on X of bodybuilders throwing around weights with the caption,

Kristi Noem said it is not the federal government's responsibility to manage "disasters" like the deadly flash floods in Texas, saying it was instead the state's responsibility.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem asked her social media followers to pick which portrait of her on horseback they prefer, leading some social media users to accuse her of horsing around on Instagram amid a disaster in Texas.

ICE Barbie’s not done playing dress-up. In fact, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem loves her costumes so much that she’s asked her most loyal fans on Instagram to vote for their favorite depiction of Cowgirl Barbie riding a horse and sauntering off to save America from undocumented immigrants.

Kristi Noem earned the nickname "ICE Barbie" due to cosplaying while performing her duties as homeland security secretary, but this outdated look took the cake.

In a Monday, July 7 post on Instagram, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem highlighted three photos of her on horseback and asked social media users to pick the one they liked best. The former South Dakota governor posted,

A report cited by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in her critique of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Wednesday was subject to “gross manipulation,” according to one of the study’s authors.

According to a report from The Daily Beast, Senator Ted Cruz was vacationing in Greece as tragedy struck his state. Over the July 4 weekend, flash flooding took the lives of at least 95 people in Texas, including 27 children and counselors at Camp Mystic, an all-girls camp along the banks of the Guadalupe River.