#special-government-employee

#special-government-employee

Lewandowski had initially wanted to formally serve as Noem's chief of staff, but Trump rejected the idea due to reports of a romantic relationship between the twowhich he has continued to bring up, officials say, it reported. After tabloid photos of Lewandowski showed him going back and forth between his apartment and Noem's across the street last year, the secretary moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington that is provided to the leader of the U.S. Coast Guard.

He was her political adviser when she was South Dakota's governor. "Kristi is the face of DHS. Corey is the brains. He gets things done," one senior administration official told Axios. Driving the news: Lewandowski's continued involvement in DHS became clear last week, when an Axios reporter saw him standing at a gate at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, speaking loudly into his phone as he appeared to discuss DHS vendors' contracts.