President Donald Trump met for nearly two hours Monday evening in the Oval Office with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her top aide, Corey Lewandowski, as the administration scrambled to contain the fallout from the killing of a second Minneapolis resident by federal agents.

According to two people briefed on the meeting, Noem requested the sit-down herself amid intensifying bipartisan criticism over the death of Alex Pretti, who was shot roughly 10 times by immigration agents over the weekend after he was apparently filming them with his phone.

Those familiar with the conversation said Trump did not indicate that either Noem’s or Lewandowski’s job was in jeopardy. Still, the unusually long meeting underscored the president’s growing concern that the administration’s immigration crackdown—and the public defense of it—has become a political liability.

Noem has emerged as the most aggressive public face of Trump’s immigration strategy and has repeatedly amplified false claims about Pretti, including labeling him a “domestic terrorist.” Her remarks have drawn condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike, particularly as new details about the shooting continue to surface.

Several of Trump’s top advisers joined the Oval Office discussion, including chief of staff Susie Wiles, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and communications director Steven Cheung. Notably absent was Stephen Miller, the architect of the administration’s hard-line immigration agenda.

The meeting came just hours after Trump announced he was dispatching Tom Homan, his border czar, to oversee operations in Minneapolis. The move was widely interpreted inside Washington as an attempt to steady the operation by elevating an official associated with ICE’s traditional focus on targeted arrests rather than the sweeping raids that have defined Trump’s second-term immigration push.

At the same time, administration officials were quietly preparing to remove Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official whose aggressive tactics in Minneapolis have drawn fierce criticism, from the city. Two people with knowledge of the plan said the shift was intended to lower the temperature after a weekend that left another civilian dead and the White House under siege.