Republican senator from Oklahoma who succeeded Kristi Noem as America's secretary of homeland security, confirmed on March 23rd 2026. He served for a decade in the House of Representatives before being elected to the Senate in 2022. An immigration hawk, he defended the tactics of ICE agents in Minneapolis following the killing of Renee Good. Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff and architect of the administration's border and deportation agenda, remains the driving force behind immigration policy.
Mullin wants to soften DHS's image: "My goal in six months is that we're not in the lead story every single day." He suggests ICE should act more like a "transport" service than a front-line force, agrees that agents should obtain judicial warrants before entering private property, and has described the administration's fight with unco-operative cities as a "misunderstanding". His first test is a funding standoff: Democrats have refused to fund DHS unless the bill includes new restrictions on ICE officers. More than 450 TSA officers have quit during the standoff; on March 23rd nearly 11% called in sick, leading to hours-long queues at airports.
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