The guy probably wakes up in the morning and asks himself WTF did I leave the US Senate?
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is in a push/pull from several directions…..
Go silent….
The Immigration enforcement thing IS listen support across America and THAT is worrying lawmakers who need vote ‘s in November…
Democrats have been successful in the Senate by NOT approving the Homeland Spending budget….
They are looking for limitations against Stephen Miller’s push against Immigration in Whole….
Miller’s people are NOT happy with the de-escalation of mass deportation efforts…
But the worse part?
Mullin follows behind a woman who absolutely did NOT KNOW what she was doing except spending money and listening to Trump and Miller…
THAT cost her her job…..
America IS a country of immigrants from back in the day and YES?
Now….
Effort to ship people out who are here illegally and seemingly legal ARE making the Headlines and hurting Trump and Republicans….
Markwayne Mullin IS walking a tightrope….
He took the job probably NOT knowing how BAD things are in the Department and The White House……..
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is trying to bring his department out from under the shadow of his divisive predecessor Kristi Noem, but he is facing hits from both sides of the aisle as he does so.
Less than a month into his tenure atop the Department of Homeland Security, the former Republican lawmaker from Oklahoma has attempted to stabilize it by getting rid of some of Noem’s management processes and reshaping the department’s organizational chart. In the past week, he brought back a deputywho had clashed with Noem and dismissed a Noem appointee who’d been accused of incompetence.
Mullin also reversed a much-criticized Noem policy in which the secretary had to personally approve contracts worth more than $100,000. DHS has also said it’s modifying its messaging strategy to “humanize” the department and feature Mullin more regularly on cable news and social media to “directly communicate” what the department is doing.
For Mullin’s backers, those moves — in particular the reversal of the contract review policy — are a sign he is turning the department around. But his approach so far has brought him criticism from both Democrats who say Mullin’s changes don’t go far enough, and from immigration hardliners in President Donald Trump’s political base who argue Mullin’s rhetoric is undermining the president’s promised immigration crackdown.
“During this grace period, things have happened that have been counter to the mass deportation cause, and nothing seems to have happened that is in favor of the mass deportation cause,” said Mike Howell, who leads the Oversight Project, a far-right watchdog group. He added that there’s still confusion about Mullin’s stances.
The tension came to a head this week after Mullin insisted in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that America “is a nation of immigrants” that wants “legal immigration.” Prominent far-right activists who favor restricting both authorized and unauthorized immigration to the United States criticized Mullin’s comments on social media. Some argued the comments showed Mullin was the wrong pick to helm DHS.
“Told you it was a bad appointment,” wrote far-right commentator Mike Cernovich on X Wednesday night.
The sharp reactions underscore what people close to the White House, administration officials and lawmakers concede is a central challenge for Mullin: how to shore up the department’s credibility while avoiding alienating any key constituency in the president’s political base.
“Is it simply an image issue, or is it also an image and a policy issue? I think they’re trying to navigate all of that,” said a person close to the White House, who like others in this story was granted anonymity so they could speak freely about dynamics in the administration. “That’s going to be his biggest challenge, dealing with what the base wants, but also what the donors and advisers want.”
Polling still shows that Americans disapprove of the president’s approach to immigration…..
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