The Senate Democrats faced the Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem on Wednesday about whether Kilmar Abrego García will be returned to the United States, as well as the expenses of the National Security Department.
During a hearing of the Senate Assignments Committee, Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-MD., Who traveled to El Salvador to meet with Abrego García, asked if the Trump administration would comply with the decision of the Supreme Court that the United States government must facilitate the return of Abrego García, Noem replied that the government is following the law, but it was not yes or no.
“What I would tell you is that we are following the order of the court,” Noem replied. “His defense for a known terrorist is alarming.”

Senator Chris Van Hollen attends a Senate Assignments Subcommittee at National Security Supervision Hearing, on May 8, 2025, in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC
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Van Hollen said he is not “attending to man” but the due process.
“I suggest that, instead of making these statements here, you and the Trump administration do them in court under oath,” he added.
Van Hollen accused that he calls if a political speech, and you say that he would suggest that running is a “lawyer” for victims of illegal crimes.
Last month, after Abrego García’s family filed a lawsuit, the United States District Judge, Paula Xinis, ordered the Trump administration to facilitate its return to the United States, the Supreme Court confirmed that the April 10 ruling.

Senator Chris Van Hollen meets Kilmar Abrego García in a given place such as El Salvador, in this image launched on April 17, 2025.
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Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Pressed Noem on whether he read the decision of the Supreme Court, noting that the Court ruled 9-0 that the United States should facilitate its release.
“Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador. It depends on the president of El Salvador to make the decision to return,” Noem replied. “It has been a great issue of conversation among all of us … The president has been very clear about this issue, such as the Secretary of State and I also have. Abrego García is not a citizen of this country and is a dangerous individual.”
Previously at the audience, Murphy criticized Noem, saying: “His department is out of control.”
“You are spending as if you did not have a budget. You are about to run out of money for the fiscal year. You are illegally denying to spend funds that have been authorized by this congress and assigned by this committee,” he said. “He is blatantly violating the law every hour every day. He refuses to allow people to present at the southern border request asylum. I recognize that he does not believe that people should be able to request asylum, but he cannot choose that.”

Senator Chris Murphy questions the Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem as Senator Katie Britt observes, during a Senate Assignments subcommitte
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He added that the DHS will run out of money for immigration and argued that the department is not giving migrants due process.
“What is doing to people who have legal rights to stay here, such as Kilmar Abrego García or students who only protest Trump’s policies, is immoral, and to follow the issue, it is illegal. He has no right to deport a head of the student visa without the due process, simply because they have spoken in a way that the president offends. The migrants cannot be eliminated that a court has given the humanitarian protection of the remittus, he said.
Noem also pointed out that the Biden administration let more than 20 million people go illegally in the country.

Senator Chris Van Hollen attends a Senate Assignments Subcommittee at National Security Supervision Hearing, on May 8, 2025, in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC
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Noem was also asked about the Trump administration plan for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. Noem has said he wants to get rid of FEMA and return funds to the United States.
Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rw.V., asked Noem to “stepped slightly” by dismantling Fema, marking the first time a Republican has increased caution on the president’s president’s plan to dismantle FEMA. Moore Capito said he is “worried” that there could be problems with small states “subject to many natural disasters, floods”, in relief.
“I think it is [a] Vital function, and worries me, if you give it to the United States, the ability for the State to really drive this is something that, so I would ask you to step slightly, “he added.

Senator Chris Van Hollen meets Kilmar Abrego García in a given place such as El Salvador, in this image launched on April 17, 2025.
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In CISA, he said previously that he was operating as the “Ministry of Truth” during the Biden Administration and that the Trump administration is returning CISA to achieve the declared objectives of the DHS.
“They were doing electoral security missions where censorship and decision of what the truth was and what was not the truth, and we have eliminated those functions within CISA,” Noem said. “CISA was created to be an entity that supported small and medium enterprises and also the critical infrastructure, our electricity grid, our water systems that are vulnerable to attempts to piracy and influence of foreign countries, but enemies of the United States of America.”
Senator Gary Peters, a Mich. Democrat, said there were 15 employees of 3,000 who were working on erroneous information.