Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said July 8 that TSA will no longer make travelers remove their shoes at security checkpoints.

Travelers are no longer required to remove their shoes during TSA security screenings, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday.

The Transportation Security Administration will now allow passengers to leave their shoes on, but security screening is still in place at airports.

Pointing to “layered screening,” Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, ended two decades of socks and bare feet at U.S. airport checkpoints.

Her voice breaking, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that emergency responders in Texas are “still looking for a lot of little girls” who remain missing after a catastrophic flood during the holiday weekend.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spent several minutes praising God's part in the recent deadly flooding in Texas. At a White House cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Noem recalled that one father found his dead daughter's shoe in the mud.

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.

Kristi Noem has carved out a niche for herself in a leadership position that isn’t exactly known for its fashion-forward values. She is just as glam, confused, and overly invested. The Secretary of Homeland Security has recently come under fire for her pearls-and-hoops-meet-2001 style instead of for the measures she took.