Markwayne Mullin’s first inkling that he was about to be offered a Cabinet post came with a call from the White House switchboard that the first-term Oklahoma senator was not at all expecting.
Speaking to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday just minutes after President Donald Trump announced that he’d be tapped to lead the Department of Homeland Security, the MAGA loyalist called the news “a little bit of a surprise” but then said he wasn’t headed directly to the White House.
