Senate to consider Markwayne Mullin’s nomination amid DHS shutdown
Trump pick for homeland security secretary followed firing of Kristi Noem amid blowback for anti-immigration tacticsA Senate committee on Wednesday will consider Markwayne Mullin’s nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which Democrats have forced into a partial shutdown...
<p>Trump pick for homeland security secretary followed firing of Kristi Noem amid blowback for anti-immigration tactics</p><p>A Senate committee on Wednesday will consider Markwayne Mullin’s nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which Democrats have forced into a partial shutdown until their demands for guardrails on immigration enforcement are met.</p><p>Donald Trump nominated Mullin, a first-term Republican senator from Oklahoma, as DHS secretary earlier this month, after the president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/trump-kristi-noem-homeland-security">ousted</a> secretary Kristi Noem amid <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/ice-trump-immigration-poll">public blowback</a> against the administration’s aggressive approach to its mass deportation agenda, which resulted in the killings of two US citizens by immigration agents in Minneapolis.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/senate-markwayne-mullin-nomination-dhs">Continue reading...</a>
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