Bipartisan Outrage Over Noem's Swastika Embrace

Lawmakers react with bipartisan disgust to the Coast Guard's policy change removing hate symbol status from swastikas and nooses.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both parties blasted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday after Washington Post reported that the U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols, instead downgrading them to “potentially divisive” under a new policy set to take effect December 15.​