Overview
- The Senate Homeland Security Committee approved Markwayne Mullin’s nomination 8–7, with chair Rand Paul voting no and one Democrat crossing over to support.
- A full Senate vote is expected early next week, with backers projecting confirmation.
- At his confirmation hearing, Mullin said he wants to move ICE off the “frontline” and set a six‑month goal for operations to stop dominating headlines.
- He proposed that agents generally present judicial warrants to enter homes or businesses, with exceptions for cases involving serious criminals.
- Mullin urged Congress to lift the Democratic freeze on DHS funding, apologized for earlier comments about a Minneapolis victim, and said FEMA would be reorganized rather than abolished.