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Role: 9th Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (confirmed March 23, 2026)
Party: Republican
State: Oklahoma
Severity: P0 — Cabinet-level authority over domestic immigration enforcement, the largest law enforcement apparatus in U.S. history

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Background and Career

Markwayne Mullin was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Westville, a small rural community in the Ozarks region. He is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation — the first Native American to be confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security. He is white-passing; the Cherokee Nation does not require a minimum blood quantum for tribal membership.

Mullin built a multimillion-dollar plumbing business — Mullin Plumbing, Inc. and four affiliated companies — before entering politics. He competed in mixed martial arts (MMA) and wrestling, a background he has invoked repeatedly during his time in public life.

Congressional career:

  • U.S. Representative, Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District (2013–2023)
  • U.S. Senator, Oklahoma (2023–2026), won a special election replacing retired Sen. Jim Inhofe
  • Key Senate committees: Armed Services, Indian Affairs

DHS Secretary: Nominated March 5, 2026; confirmed March 23, 2026; sworn in March 24, 2026 by Attorney General Todd Blanche in the Oval Office. He replaced Kristi Noem, who was fired by President Trump.

Why He Was Nominated: The Minneapolis Shootings {#why-he-was-nominated}

Mullin’s nomination came directly out of the political crisis caused by ICE and Border Patrol killing two American citizens in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in early 2026:

Renee Nicole Good — 37-year-old mother and poet, a U.S. citizen, was shot and killed on January 7, 2026, by a DHS officer during an immigration enforcement operation. Video captured the encounter; bystanders documented the shooting.

Alex Pretti — 37-year-old U.S. citizen and ICU nurse at a local VA hospital, was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent and a CBP officer in Minneapolis less than three weeks later.

Both shootings were captured on video by bystanders. A congressional letter to Noem (January 28, 2026) documented that “DHS and the White House repeatedly issued false or misleading statements” about the incidents. Noem faced growing bipartisan backlash. Trump fired her approximately six weeks after the first shooting.

The Atlantic framed the context bluntly: “Kristi Noem Is Gone. Now Mass Deportations Can Really Begin.”

Mullin was nominated not to slow the machine but to operate it with less political liability.

Confirmation {#confirmation}

Senate vote: 54–45 (March 23, 2026)

  • 52 Republicans + 2 Democrats (Sen. John Fetterman, PA; Sen. Martin Heinrich, NM) voted to confirm
  • 42 Democrats and 1 Republican voted against: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

Rand Paul’s objection — “a man with anger issues”

At Mullin’s confirmation hearing, Senate Homeland Security Chairman Rand Paul delivered a blunt assessment: Mullin is “a man with anger issues” who should not be trusted to set conduct standards for ICE and Border Patrol agents. Paul raised Mullin’s prior conduct:

  • Mullin had publicly called Paul a “freaking snake”
  • Mullin had stated he “understood why” a neighbor had brutally attacked Paul in 2017 (Rene Boucher tackled Paul from behind while he was mowing, breaking six of Paul’s ribs and causing permanent lung damage)
  • The committee confirmed multiple incidents of Mullin using physical threat language and intimidation as a communication tool

Paul voted no, stating that the person leading the country’s largest law enforcement agency should not model the exact behavior that had already led to two American citizens being killed on the streets of Minneapolis.

Mullin’s pledge on judicial warrants

Mullin obtained his two Democratic votes by pledging to reverse the Noem-era practice of allowing ICE agents to enter private homes with only an administrative warrant (not signed by a judge). He pledged to require judicial warrants — signed by an independent Article III federal judge — for home entry without consent.

Civil liberties groups were skeptical. ACLU government and democracy director Naureen Shah: “The reality is that this administration’s agenda remains unchanged: to deport millions of people and to frighten millions more into hiding and ultimately leaving the country they call home.” (El País English, March 2026)

The Inheritance: Mass Deportation Infrastructure {#the-inheritance}

Mullin assumed control of what The Atlantic described as an unprecedented domestic enforcement buildup:

  • New fleet of deportation aircraft — accelerated removals via charter and military aircraft
  • Nearly a dozen warehouses being converted into megajails, some with capacity for 10,000 detainees each
  • Social Circle, Georgia: federal government purchased an industrial facility for $129 million; projected capacity of 10,000 detainees
  • Mullin has “paused 11 projects” as of spring 2026, reportedly due to local and Republican lawmaker backlash over transparency, community impact, and environmental concerns
  • 12,000 new ICE officers and agents being hired and trained — more than doubling ICE’s total workforce
  • 800 new agreements with county sheriffs and local police departments agreeing to assist with immigration enforcement
  • Fresh appellate court victories backing expanded detention authority

ICE enforcement pace: Approximately 1,100 arrests per day as of early 2026. The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) notes this is “far short of the 3,000-per-day target that Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller reportedly began pushing for.”

DHS deportation claims: The Trump administration claimed 605,000+ deportations as of spring 2026. Independent analysts have questioned the methodology, noting that the administration cut off access to the Office of Homeland Security Statistics reports, making independent verification impossible.

Policy Actions as DHS Secretary {#policy-actions}

Image management, policy continuity

El País English noted that Mullin’s first visible change was stylistic: replacing the bulletproof vest with “ICE” emblazoned across the front (Noem’s signature look) with a suit and tie. Immigration policy analysts described the shift as one of optics, not substance.

Deportation flights

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), fortified with tens of billions in “One Big Beautiful Bill” funding, continues mass removals under Mullin. The pace of deportation flights has not slowed under his tenure.

Warrant policy (pending)

Mullin pledged at confirmation to require judicial warrants for home entry. As of reporting through April 2026, his office acknowledged it is “reviewing agency policies and proposals” but had not issued a formal memo reversing the administrative warrant practice. Civil liberties groups are monitoring compliance closely.

Some GOP lawmakers push for more

CNN Politics reported that “some GOP lawmakers want him to do more,” indicating pressure from the right flank to accelerate enforcement despite the operational strains already present.

DHS Investigation of the 2020 Arizona Election {#2020-election-probe}

One of the most significant accountability concerns under Mullin’s tenure is the deployment of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) — an investigative unit normally tasked with drug cartels and human trafficking — to investigate the 2020 presidential election in Arizona.

What happened:

  • An HSI agent in charge of the Arizona field office confirmed to the state attorney general’s office that he was investigating the 2020 election “on direction from D.C.”
  • HSI requested records from the state attorney general’s office related to the 2020 election investigation conducted by then-AG Mark Brnovich (R) — that investigation found no indication of widespread fraud or conspiracy
  • The Arizona 2020 election has been confirmed clean by: a Republican-led audit, multiple state-mandated manual audits, 14 court cases, and Trump’s own DHS in 2020, which called it “the most secure election in American history”

Congressional response (April 9, 2026): Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) sent a formal letter to Secretary Mullin and acting ICE Director Todd Lyons demanding the probe be terminated immediately. The letter stated:

“The election was the subject of multiple failed lawsuits and investigations and audits that revealed no evidence of fraud. Deploying agents, who should be focused on targeting criminals, to investigate debunked claims of election fraud makes Americans less safe and raises serious questions about the legitimacy of the investigation.”

The senators demanded Mullin “end the probe immediately and release all documents, communications, and information relating to the Department’s motivations for initiating this improper investigation.” No public response from Mullin was documented.

Significance: Directing a domestic law enforcement agency to reinvestigate a settled, judicially resolved election is a hallmark of authoritarian consolidation — using the security apparatus to validate political narratives and potentially target election officials, poll workers, or civic actors in states that resisted the 2020 stolen-election narrative.

Mass Surveillance Technology {#mass-surveillance}

On April 14–16, 2026, 34 members of Congress — led by Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) — sent a formal letter to Mullin and acting ICE Director Todd Lyons demanding answers about DHS’s use of a suite of surveillance technologies:

Technology Company Capability
Data analytics software Palantir Technologies Aggregating and analyzing large volumes of personal immigration data
Facial recognition Clearview AI Mass facial recognition against public and private databases
Social media surveillance PenLink Bulk social media monitoring and analysis
Cell tower simulators (stingrays) L3Harris Intercepting mobile device communications
Cellphone surveillance Paragon Solutions Mobile device exploitation

Congress raised concerns that these tools could be used to “compile, aggregate, and analyze large volumes of personal data and information” against not just undocumented immigrants but U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, activists, journalists, and advocacy organizations. They questioned “what safeguards exist, if any.”

WIRED, which obtained the letter exclusively, reported the suite represents a mass surveillance ecosystem with minimal documented oversight. No public response from Mullin had been documented as of mid-April 2026.

Sanctuary City Airport Threat {#sanctuary-cities}

In a Fox News interview and at a roundtable in Asheville, North Carolina, Mullin threatened to remove U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel from international airports in cities that have sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with immigration enforcement:

“If cities are going to sit there and say that they’re not going to enforce immigration policies, then I’ll repeat myself and say it doesn’t make any sense for us to process international travelers through that city.”

The proposal, framed as “just something I’m thinking,” would affect some of the busiest international travel hubs in the United States — New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco — and could disrupt international trade, tourism, and events like the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which has 16 host cities across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

Legal analysts noted the threat raises significant constitutional questions about the federal government using port-of-entry services as coercive leverage against state and local governments — a form of federal commandeering that courts have repeatedly questioned. Mullin cited congressional Democrats blocking DHS funding (a standoff that had exceeded 50 days by the time of the statement) as justification.

ICE at the World Cup: Mullin also declined to rule out immigration enforcement at World Cup venues when pressed by reporters. He stated ICE agents “are not there to go round up people” but left open the possibility of arresting individuals on watchlists or for criminal warrants — creating uncertainty for the 48 nations whose citizens hold tourist visas to attend matches. (CBS News, spring 2026)

FEMA Diversion to ICE {#fema-diversion}

A congressional letter to Mullin (April 27, 2026) from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure raised formal concerns about FEMA resources being diverted to immigration enforcement:

  • Whether FEMA personnel are being used to support ICE warehouse facilities or other infrastructure projects
  • Whether FEMA funding has been transferred or reprogrammed to ICE
  • The legal authorities under which any such transfers were made

FEMA is the Federal Emergency Management Agency — the primary federal body responsible for natural disaster response. The diversion of FEMA resources to build and staff immigration megajails would represent a significant degradation of disaster readiness in exchange for immigration enforcement capacity.

Pre-DHS Conduct and Character {#pre-dhs-conduct}

The O’Brien Confrontation (November 2023)

In a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, Mullin challenged International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to a physical fight after O’Brien had called him a “greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self-made” and a “clown & fraud” on social media.

Mullin read O’Brien’s posts aloud, stood up, and said: “Sir, this is a time. This is a place.” Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders intervened, ordering Mullin to sit down. The exchange was captured on video and went viral nationally.

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), present at the hearing, said: “Sit down, please.” Senate committee rules prohibit physical threats to witnesses. The incident prompted extensive coverage of Mullin’s pattern of physical intimidation.

Journalists and Violence (pre-2026)

While serving as a senator, Mullin posted a video on X in which he suggested that journalists would write “less false stories” if physical violence against them “could still” be used “to handle our differences that way.” Per The Guardian:

“There’s a lot we could say about reporters and the stories they write, but I bet they would write a lot less false stories — as President Trump says, fake news — if we could still handle our differences that way.”

After the remarks were published by The Oklahoman, Mullin called it a “joke,” saying he’d “also joked about bringing back caning to settle political disputes.” Journalists’ freedom organizations noted the statement was made in the context of escalating threats of violence against members of the press.

“This is war” (Iran, 2025–2026)

When speaking to reporters at the U.S. Capitol about U.S. military operations in Iran, Mullin said: “This is war, and we’re taking out the threat.” When pressed, he said he “misspoke.” The statement accelerated concerns about the administration’s public framing of unauthorized military action.

Financial Disclosures and Ethics Investigation {#ethics}

House Ethics investigation (2013–2014)

The Office of Congressional Ethics referred Mullin to the House Committee on Ethics for potential violations related to income he continued receiving from his plumbing companies while serving in the House. He spent “thousands of dollars” restructuring five companies — Mullin Plumbing, Inc. and affiliates — to comply with ethics rules, and a CEO was hired for one company. The Committee found he had “inadvertently” received approximately $40,000 from a company he had transferred to his spouse, and that he needed to come into full compliance with committee guidance.

Lowballed salary claim

During the Teamsters hearing confrontation, Mullin lambasted O’Brien for his ~$200,000 salary while claiming his own salary at his plumbing company was “about $50,000 a year because I invested every penny into it.” His 2012 financial disclosure report — filed the year he was first elected to Congress — shows his salary was nearly $92,000, with total income even higher. Business Insider and NBC reported the discrepancy; O’Brien raised it during the hearing itself.

Pattern Analysis {#pattern-analysis}

Mullin embodies a distinct type in the Trump administration’s second-term cabinet: the loyal enforcer with an aggression brand. His record reflects several overlapping patterns:

1. Physical intimidation as a governance communication style The O’Brien confrontation, the Paul “snake” remarks and the endorsement of Paul’s 2017 assault, and the journalist violence statement are not isolated incidents — they form a coherent pattern of using the credible threat of physical harm as a tool of political communication. Rand Paul’s warning that a person with this pattern should not be setting conduct norms for 60,000+ armed federal agents is structurally sound.

2. The image-over-substance reform Mullin replaced Noem’s photo-op vest with a suit, pledged judicial warrants for home entry, and cultivated a more conciliatory media persona. The underlying enforcement machine — 12,000 new ICE agents, megajails, 800 local police agreements — is unchanged or accelerating. This is the classic authoritarian-adjacent reform: change the aesthetic to reduce political heat while maintaining or expanding coercive capacity.

3. Weaponizing law enforcement against democratic accountability The use of Homeland Security Investigations to probe a conclusively settled, multiply-audited, judicially reviewed election is the most direct accountability concern of his tenure so far. HSI agents normally hunt fentanyl networks and sex trafficking operations. Redirecting them to validate a debunked political narrative is a misuse of federal law enforcement power consistent with the authoritarian pattern identified in all major Patriot University profile categories.

4. Expanding the surveillance state with minimal oversight The Palantir/Clearview AI/PenLink/L3Harris/Paragon surveillance suite operates against immigration targets today. The legal architecture and procurement infrastructure established under Mullin will be available for use against any future administration-designated “threat.” Congress has received no substantive answers about safeguards.

5. Coercive federalism The sanctuary city airport threat is a direct challenge to the anti-commandeering doctrine established by the Supreme Court in Printz v. United States and New York v. United States. Using federal services as leverage to compel state and local compliance with immigration enforcement is a form of federal coercion that courts have historically constrained.

Severity Assessment {#severity-assessment}

P0 — Maximum priority for monitoring and accountability documentation

Mullin leads the Department of Homeland Security — the largest domestic law enforcement apparatus in U.S. history, with approximately 240,000 employees and jurisdiction over ICE, CBP, Border Patrol, FEMA, TSA, the U.S. Secret Service, and USCIS.

The scale of enforcement infrastructure being built under his watch — megajails, doubled ICE workforce, 800+ local police partnerships, a mass surveillance ecosystem — represents a fundamental transformation of the domestic security state. The use of that apparatus to investigate settled elections and intimidate sanctuary jurisdictions compounds the constitutional stakes.

Key vectors of concern:

  • Scale of coercive power — DHS is the largest domestic law enforcement agency; its norms set the floor for acceptable enforcement conduct nationwide
  • Surveillance architecture — the surveillance ecosystem under construction will outlast any single administration
  • Election-probe misuse — directing HSI to investigate a settled election is authoritarian standard practice: use security apparatus to validate political narrative and intimidate election officials
  • Anger as governance — Rand Paul’s warning is grounded in documented incident history; the person setting conduct norms for armed federal agents matters

Accountability Status {#accountability-status}

Current status as of May 2026:

Domain Status
Senate confirmation vote Confirmed 54–45, March 23, 2026
Judicial warrant pledge Pledged at confirmation; as of April 2026, no formal memo issued
2020 AZ election probe Active congressional demand to terminate; no public response
Surveillance technology use Active congressional inquiry; no public response
FEMA diversion inquiry Active congressional inquiry; no public response
Megajail program Active; 11 projects paused due to local backlash
Mass deportation pace ~1,100 arrests/day; below the 3,000/day Miller target

Congressional oversight: Mullin is receiving letters from members of Congress but has not responded publicly to the Arizona election probe, the surveillance inquiry, or the FEMA diversion questions. The Senate Homeland Security Committee, now chaired by Rand Paul (who voted against him), has indicated it will pursue vigorous oversight.

Civil society: The ACLU, National Immigration Forum, and WOLA are all actively tracking Mullin’s tenure. Immigration legal services organizations are monitoring whether the judicial warrant pledge is operationalized.

Documentation note: Due to the Trump administration’s suspension of DHS public data reporting (including OHSS reports), independent verification of deportation numbers, detention conditions, and enforcement patterns is significantly limited. This opacity is itself an accountability issue that should be documented.

Truth and Reconciliation Considerations {#truth-and-reconciliation}

TRC Classification: Category A — Institutional Capture and Enforcement Abuse

Markwayne Mullin is a primary TRC Category A actor — not primarily as an architect of the authoritarian program (see Vought, Miller, Bannon for architects) but as its operational executor at the largest scale. The machinery of mass enforcement that operates under his authority — megajails, a doubled ICE workforce, 800 local police partnerships, a national surveillance ecosystem — will require structured accountability for its human costs and its transformation of American constitutional norms.

TRC Theme 1: The Two American Deaths in Minneapolis

The deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti — both U.S. citizens killed by federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis in early 2026 — represent the most concrete human cost requiring TRC-level documentation. DHS issued “false or misleading statements” about both incidents, per congressional documentation.

A truth-and-reconciliation process will need to:

  • Establish a full account of each shooting: the authorization chain, the operational orders in force, the rules of engagement in effect, and the factual record versus the DHS public statements
  • Document all misleading statements issued by DHS and the White House in the aftermath
  • Assess whether accountability was adequate for the agents involved and for the officials who authorized or supervised the operations
  • Create a factual baseline that families and communities can use in civil litigation and historical record

TRC Theme 2: The 2020 Arizona Election Investigation

Directing Homeland Security Investigations — normally tasked with drug cartels and trafficking operations — to investigate a settled, multiply-reviewed election at “direction from D.C.” is a significant abuse of law enforcement authority. TRC-relevant questions include:

  • Who specifically ordered the investigation? What was the decision chain from the White House to DHS to the Arizona HSI field office?
  • What communications exist between Trump administration officials and HSI leadership authorizing or directing this probe?
  • Were election officials, poll workers, or state legislators investigated, intimidated, or surveilled as part of the probe?
  • What is the relationship between this investigation and the broader pattern of using federal law enforcement to validate the 2020 stolen-election narrative?

This must be documented as part of a broader TRC inquiry into the use of the federal security apparatus for political retribution — a pattern that crosses multiple agencies and administration figures.

TRC Theme 3: The Mass Surveillance Infrastructure

The Palantir/Clearview AI/PenLink/L3Harris/Paragon surveillance ecosystem being built under Mullin will outlast any single administration. A truth-and-reconciliation process needs to:

  • Document the full scope of surveillance authorities and capabilities acquired under the Trump second term
  • Assess which of these capabilities were used against U.S. citizens, legal residents, activists, journalists, or political figures
  • Establish what safeguards existed, if any, and whether they were observed
  • Recommend legislative and structural changes to prevent future administrations from inheriting a turnkey surveillance state

The 34-member congressional letter of April 2026 is a documented starting point. The lack of response from Mullin is itself documentable.

TRC Theme 4: The Human Cost of the Mass Deportation Machine

The scale of enforcement infrastructure built under Trump’s second term — with Mullin now at the operational helm — has produced significant human costs that require systematic documentation:

  • Families separated; U.S. citizen children affected by parental deportation
  • Conditions in megajail facilities and converted warehouses
  • Deaths in ICE custody (a recurrent pattern requiring systematic tracking)
  • Community terror: the “frightening millions more into hiding” effect documented by civil liberties organizations
  • Economic disruption to communities whose workforce included undocumented workers

A TRC process will need to establish a full accounting of enforcement actions, including those where DHS claims of criminal histories cannot be independently verified. The administration’s decision to cut off public data reporting (OHSS reports) is itself a documented obstruction of accountability.

TRC Theme 5: The Anger Culture and Its Downstream Effects

Rand Paul’s concern — that placing a man with a documented pattern of physical intimidation at the head of 60,000 armed federal agents sets a conduct norm — is a structural TRC issue. A truth-and-reconciliation process should assess:

  • Whether the conduct culture at ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol changed under Mullin’s leadership
  • Whether the two Minneapolis shootings were part of a pattern of escalating lethality in enforcement operations
  • How leadership rhetoric about violence (Mullin’s journalist comments, the “stand your butt up” confrontation) filtered into organizational culture

Evidence Preservation Priorities

  1. Congressional letters to Mullin (April 2026 AZ election probe; April 2026 surveillance; April 2026 FEMA diversion) — preserve as primary source documents
  2. DHS statements about the Minneapolis shootings — preserve original statements and the congressional rebuttal documenting the false/misleading characterizations
  3. Confirmation hearing testimony — Mullin’s pledges on judicial warrants and the Rand Paul exchange create a verifiable accountability baseline
  4. HSI communications with Arizona officials — the public records obtained by Votebeat documenting the election probe request
  5. OHSS data suppression — document when the administration suspended public reporting and what data was suppressed

Investigative Trail Pointers

  • The Atlantic: “Kristi Noem Is Gone. Now Mass Deportations Can Really Begin.” (March 2026) — establishes the full scale of the enforcement infrastructure Mullin inherited
  • WIRED: Congressional letter on Palantir/Clearview/PenLink/L3Harris/Paragon surveillance (April 16, 2026) — full text available via Rep. Goldman’s office
  • Votebeat: Public records on HSI’s Arizona election probe (via state AG records request)
  • WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America): Monthly border updates tracking ICE arrests, deportation pace, and detention conditions
  • National Immigration Forum: Policy bulletins tracking Mullin’s confirmation and early policy actions
  • Gallego/Kelly Senate letter: April 9, 2026 — full text documents the AZ election probe with citations to Republican audit findings and court cases
  • Congressional letter on Minneapolis shootings: January 28, 2026 — documents DHS false/misleading statements about Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti
  • Business Insider / NBC: Salary discrepancy documentation from 2012 financial disclosures
  • The Guardian: Journalist violence statement — full quote and context
  • CBS News / LULAC: Journalist violence statement — additional documentation

For Trump Supporters: Questions Worth Considering

Mullin was confirmed DHS Secretary 54-45 — with Rand Paul voting no specifically over “anger issues” and physical altercations, including Mullin’s challenge to a Teamsters union president to a fistfight at a Senate hearing and his threats to physically confront a protester outside a hearing. He inherited a DHS that had already built a mass deportation infrastructure including CECOT-style megajails. He launched a DHS investigation into the 2020 Arizona election — an investigation into a certified election result — using DHS intelligence resources. He threatened to deny landing rights at airports in sanctuary cities. He diverted FEMA funds to ICE operations. He faces an ongoing ethics investigation over financial disclosures related to his plumbing business and its federal contracts during his congressional tenure.

Here’s a question worth sitting with: Mullin’s own Republican colleague Rand Paul voted against him specifically because of anger management concerns and physical confrontation incidents — not because of policy disagreement. The person controlling the largest domestic law enforcement apparatus in U.S. history — DHS, ICE, Border Patrol, Secret Service, TSA, FEMA — was confirmed over the explicit objection of a colleague who cited his temper. He is using DHS intelligence resources to investigate a certified 2020 election result. He diverted FEMA — the agency that responds to hurricanes, wildfires, and floods — to fund immigration enforcement. When there is a major natural disaster, the people who need FEMA don’t vote on whether immigration enforcement or disaster relief is the better use of those resources. Do you?

Press Freedom Record

Data sourced from the US Press Freedom Tracker — a project of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. 1 documented incident linked to this individual.

Incident categories: Chilling Statement

2025-04-05 — GOP senator implies violence would reduce ‘fake news’
Category: Chilling Statement
Targeted outlets/institutions: Media Source: US Press Freedom Tracker

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