{"id":69430,"date":"2026-03-19T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/senate-committee-advances-markwayne-mullins-nomination-to-lead-homeland-security\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:55:21","slug":"senate-committee-advances-markwayne-mullins-nomination-to-lead-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/senate-committee-advances-markwayne-mullins-nomination-to-lead-homeland-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate committee advances Markwayne Mullin\u2019s nomination to lead homeland security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican senator\u2019s nomination will now be considered by full Senate, where the GOP appears poised to confirm him<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-senate\">Senate<\/a> committee on Thursday advanced Markwayne Mullin\u2019s nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a near party line vote, a day after the Republican senator faced questions at his confirmation hearing about his approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> immigration enforcement agenda and accusations of encouraging violence.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all eight Republicans on the Senate committee on homeland security and governmental affairs voted to advance Mullin\u2019s nomination, with the sole exception of the panel\u2019s chair, Rand Paul of Kentucky, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/senate-markwayne-mullin-nomination-dhs\">the day prior<\/a> had harshly criticized his colleague for comments he made about a neighbor who assaulted Paul in 2017, and an incident six years later in which Mullin readied himself to fight a witness at a committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/19\/senate-committee-advances-markwayne-mullin-homeland-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican senator\u2019s nomination will now be considered by full Senate, where the GOP appears poised to confirm him Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A key Senate committee on Thursday advanced Markwayne Mullin\u2019s nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a near party &#8230; <a title=\"Senate committee advances Markwayne Mullin\u2019s nomination to lead homeland security\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/senate-committee-advances-markwayne-mullins-nomination-to-lead-homeland-security\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senate committee advances Markwayne Mullin\u2019s nomination 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-69430","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\/69430","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=69430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}