US Senate panel votes to advance Trump Homeland nominee [View all]
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday voted to advance the nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to become homeland security secretary, even as the committee's Republican chairman criticized Mullin and voted against him.
The vote sends President Donald Trump's homeland pick to the Republican-controlled full Senate for a vote, where Mullin will need a majority to be confirmed.
Trump fired embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem earlier this month after she was criticized by Republican lawmakers over her handling of Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown and management of the 260,000-person department.
The Republican president then nominated Mullin, a businessman who spent a decade in the U.S. House of Representatives before becoming a senator in 2023, to take over the role.
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He's one of their own. No surprise he was confirmed. I imagine a few of them are happy to no longer see his ugly mug.
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