Larry Rhoden, the right-hand man of South Dakota's first female governor, Kristi Noem, has officially succeeded to the state's highest office. Rhoden, formerly the 39th lieutenant governor of ...
Kristi Noem, Donald Trump
Larry Rhoden, the right-hand man of South Dakota's first female governor, Kristi Noem, has officially succeeded to the state's highest office. Rhoden, formerly the 39th lieutenant governor of ...
Rhoden, formerly the 39th lieutenant governor of South Dakota, received Noem's official resignation as governor on Saturday after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination to be President Donald Trump's secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
The Senate is voting to confirm Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump's plans to clamp down on illegal immigration.