Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin was confirmed by the Senate on the evening of March 23 to become the ninth secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The vote came against a backdrop of growing lines at US airports as the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) struggles with a lack of funding. Democrats refuse to fund the DHS without concessions that the Republicans will not grant. President Donald Trump has upped the ante by demanding that any new agreement on DHS funding should be tied to the election integrity measures contained in the SAVE America Act that Democrats and a few Republicans have so far blocked.
“Don’t make any deal on anything,” President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans during a recent speech, “unless you include voter I.D., and you have to be a citizen to vote – you have to show citizenship to vote…”
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