{"id":69706,"date":"2026-03-22T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/senate-advances-mullin-nomination-to-lead-dhs-paving-way-for-confirmation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:57:23","slug":"senate-advances-mullin-nomination-to-lead-dhs-paving-way-for-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/senate-advances-mullin-nomination-to-lead-dhs-paving-way-for-confirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate advances Mullin nomination to lead DHS, paving way for confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If approved on Monday, as expected, Mullin would replace Kristi Noem, whom Trump fired in early March<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s nomination of Republican senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/19\/senate-committee-advances-markwayne-mullin-homeland-security\">Markwayne Mullin<\/a> of Oklahoma to be the president\u2019s next head of homeland security on Sunday advanced toward final confirmation after the US Senate voted 54-37 to limit debate on the appointment.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation vote could come sometime on Monday. If approved, as expected, Mullin would replace Kristi Noem, whom Trump fired from the role of homeland security secretary on 5 March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/22\/senate-advances-mullin-nomination-dhs-secretary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If approved on Monday, as expected, Mullin would replace Kristi Noem, whom Trump fired in early March Donald Trump\u2019s nomination of Republican senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to be the president\u2019s next head of homeland security on Sunday advanced toward final confirmation after the US Senate voted 54-37 to limit debate on the appointment. The &#8230; <a title=\"Senate advances Mullin nomination to lead DHS, paving way for confirmation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/senate-advances-mullin-nomination-to-lead-dhs-paving-way-for-confirmation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senate advances Mullin nomination to lead DHS, paving way for confirmation\">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-69706","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\/69706","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=69706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}