Senate Confirms Mullin to Lead Homeland Security Amid Standoff

The Senate confirmed Oklahoma's Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary Monday on a 54-45 largely party-line vote. Mullin inherits a department without routine funding since mid-February, TSA agents working without pay, a stalled congressional standoff over immigration enforcement and an ongoing debate over the future of FEMA. The post Senate Confirms Markwayne Mullin to lead Homeland Security as TSA Standoff Deepens appeared first on Oklahoma Watch.