Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin attended his first Cabinet meeting Thursday, a gathering that comes at a crucial time as negotiations on Capitol Hill to fund his department are teetering on the edge of collapse.
President Donald Trump did not call on Mullin to deliver his own report during the meeting. Trump opened the meeting, however, by praising Mullin before addressing the prolonged DHS shutdown, which he described as the “disgraceful Democrat shutdown.”
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“Congratulations,” Trump said to Mullin as the room erupted into laughter. “You came into a department that’s shut down. Shut down by the radical Democrats.”
Trump called on Democrats to end the shutdown, or else the administration would “have to take some very drastic measures.”
Negotiations in the Senate have hit a make-or-break moment after Democrats rejected a GOP proposal that would carve out funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation operation while funding the rest of
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