The current senator from Oklahoma has been approved on Monday as the Minister of Homeland Security of the Trump administration by the U.S. Senate, with 54 votes for and 45 votes against.
He is now officially in charge of security in the United States. Markwayne Mullin’s nomination as Minister of Homeland Security in the Trump administration was confirmed on Monday by the U.S. Senate. The current senator from Oklahoma was approved for this position at the heart of many controversies in the United States with 54 votes for and 45 votes against.
Markwayne Mullin, 48, will now lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as it has been in a budgetary paralysis for over a month. The Democratic opposition, in fact, refuses to approve DHS funding without significant reforms being made to ICE, the immigration police overseen by this department.
Markwayne Mullin’s hearing before a Senate committee took place last week, shortly after the dismissal of Kristi Noem, who was weakened by the highly criticized anti-immigration operations in the past months in Minneapolis where two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were killed by federal agents. During his hearing, he distanced himself from his own statements regarding Alex Pretti, whom he had called an “undesirable individual.” “I shouldn’t have said that, and as a minister, I wouldn’t do it,” he admitted. “I spoke too hastily. I reacted in a hot-tempered way without knowing the facts.”
Context: Markwayne Mullin has been appointed as the Minister of Homeland Security in the Trump administration amidst debates and controversies regarding immigration policies.
Fact Check: The U.S. Senate approved Markwayne Mullin as the Minister of Homeland Security with 54 votes for and 45 votes against.
