Kristi Noem continues to live in Coast Guard home despite being fired as DHS secretary

Source: The Independent

Friday 24 April 2026 11:40 EDT


Ousted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is still living in a military waterfront home typically designated for Coast Guard officials, despite being fired by President Donald Trump last month, according to a report. Noem has been spotted coming and going from the home in Washington, D.C., in recent days and has continued to use the accommodation more than six weeks after her ouster, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The embattled former cabinet member moved onto the military base after protesters and paparazzi discovered the address of her private residences while she oversaw the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration crackdown.

Noem’s top aide, Corey Lewandowski, has also been seen at the home over the past year and as recently as this month, people familiar with the matter told the Journal. The pair has been accused of engaging in an extramarital affair, which Noem and Lewandowski have blasted. Noem previously dismissed as “tabloid garbage.”

“Scores of people have visited Ms. Noem at the house in a business capacity,” Lewandowski told the Journal in a statement through a lawyer. After her ouster, Noem was appointed to a little-known initiative titled special envoy for the Shield of the Americas-Western Hemisphere. It was not immediately clear why Noem was still living at the military base. Coast Guard commandant Admiral Kevin Lunday currently lives in the home next door to Noem’s and plans to move into the house she is occupying “imminently,” Lunday reportedly told associates.

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