{"id":69415,"date":"2026-03-19T07:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/senators-clash-with-trumps-nominee-to-lead-homeland-security\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:51","slug":"senators-clash-with-trumps-nominee-to-lead-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/senators-clash-with-trumps-nominee-to-lead-homeland-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Clash With Trump&#8217;s Nominee to Lead Homeland Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma\u2019s Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, faced questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill at a heated confirmation hearing. Mullin, a former pro MMA fighter with a multimillion-dollar family plumbing business, repeatedly distanced himself from fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s tenure. NBC\u2019s Kelly O\u2019Donnell reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma\u2019s Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, faced questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill at a heated confirmation hearing. Mullin, a former pro MMA fighter with a multimillion-dollar family plumbing business, repeatedly distanced himself from fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s tenure. NBC\u2019s Kelly O\u2019Donnell reports &#8230; <a title=\"Senators Clash With Trump&#8217;s Nominee to Lead Homeland Security\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/senators-clash-with-trumps-nominee-to-lead-homeland-security\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senators Clash With Trump&#8217;s Nominee to Lead Homeland Security\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}