{"id":69579,"date":"2026-03-20T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/democrats-outraged-as-fetterman-votes-to-advance-markwayne-mullin-nomination\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:54:58","slug":"democrats-outraged-as-fetterman-votes-to-advance-markwayne-mullin-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/democrats-outraged-as-fetterman-votes-to-advance-markwayne-mullin-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats outraged as Fetterman votes to advance Markwayne Mullin nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for Pennsylvania senator \u2013 Trump\u2019s \u2018favorite Democrat\u2019 \u2013 to resign after casting decisive committee vote<\/p>\n<p>Democrats reacted with outrage to their party colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/18\/john-fetterman-democrat-trump-progressive\">John Fetterman<\/a>\u2019s decision to advance the nomination of Republican US senator Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, the senior US senator from Pennsylvania, has in recent months <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/18\/john-fetterman-democrat-trump-progressive\">broken with the party<\/a> several times to support Republican proposals, and has routinely expressed staunch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/05\/john-fetterman-democrat-progressive-senator\">support for Israel<\/a>. He cast the decisive committee vote on Thursday to advance Mullin\u2019s nomination to succeed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/fetterman-markwayne-mullin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for Pennsylvania senator \u2013 Trump\u2019s \u2018favorite Democrat\u2019 \u2013 to resign after casting decisive committee vote Democrats reacted with outrage to their party colleague John Fetterman\u2019s decision to advance the nomination of Republican US senator Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary. Fetterman, the senior US senator from Pennsylvania, has in recent months broken with the &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats outraged as Fetterman votes to advance Markwayne Mullin nomination\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/democrats-outraged-as-fetterman-votes-to-advance-markwayne-mullin-nomination\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats outraged as Fetterman votes to advance Markwayne Mullin nomination\">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-69579","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\/69579","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=69579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}