Less than six months into Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s tenure atop America’s sprawling immigration and internal security bureaucracy, President Donald Trump and some of his most vocal allies are having second thoughts about the former Oklahoma senator’s job performance.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump’s angst over his decision to elevate the 49-year-old ex-mixed martial arts fighter and plumbing business owner to lead one of the cabinet’s most important departments has been simmering since his March confirmation, which followed the president’s decision to fire Mullin’s predecessor Kristi Noem amid outrage over a series of shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other scandals that had plagued her tenure atop the department.
