Anonymous11 days ago
The Senate confirmed former Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin as DHS Secretary in a 54-45 vote on March 23, 2026, with two Democrats crossing party lines and one Republican dissenting. Mullin inherits a department mired in a partial government shutdown, with hundreds of ICE agents simultaneously deploying to at least 14 major airports—ostensibly to ease TSA staffing shortages but also conducting immigration enforcement, raising constitutional and operational questions about the blending of security screening and deportation operations.