{"id":23595,"date":"2026-03-25T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=23595"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:49:07","slug":"answered-prayer-democrat-helps-make-mullin-the-dhs-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=23595","title":{"rendered":"Answered Prayer: Democrat Helps Make Mullin the DHS Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATE: Senator Mullin was confirmed late last night to serve as the next Secretary of Homeland Security. Let\u2019s pray for him!<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Senate voted to advance the President\u2019s nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to head the Department of Homeland Security. Surprising many, however, is a certain Democrat who voted with Republicans in favor of the nominee.<\/p>\n

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From the Daily Caller:\n<\/p>\n

The Senate on Sunday advanced President Donald Trump\u2019s nomination of Republican Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to be the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, bolstered by the surprise support of one Democrat who considers the nominee his friend.\n<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Senate\u00a0voted 54-37 during a rare Sunday session to invoke cloture on Mullin\u2019s\u00a0nomination\u00a0to succeed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary\u00a0Kristi Noem, teeing up a final confirmation vote expected Monday or Tuesday,\u00a0according\u00a0to The Hill. While Democratic Pennsylvania Sen.\u00a0John Fetterman<\/span><\/span>\u2018s\u00a0\u201cyes\u201d vote was expected, a second Democrat \u2014 New Mexico Sen.\u00a0Martin Heinrich<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 also bucked his party to advance Mullin\u2019s nomination in a surprise development.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to surprise some people, but I consider Markwayne Mullin a friend. We have a very honest and constructive working relationship,\u201d Heinrich, a third-term member of the upper congressional chamber, wrote in a\u00a0statement\u00a0justifying the vote. \u201cWe have authored legislation together, such as the Tribal Buffalo Management Act, and we crafted the Legislative Branch Appropriations bill together this year. We often disagree and when we do, we work to find whatever common ground we share.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Heinrich highlighted Senator Mullin\u2019s character, stressing their \u201cconstructive working relationship.\u201d The Democrat Senator lamented how he has \u201cunder this and the previous Trump Administration \u2026 lacked any constructive relationship with the Secretary of Homeland Security.\u201d He also recognized that Senator Mullin \u201cis not someone who can simply be bullied into changing his views,\u201d adding later that he hoped his colleague would not \u201ctake [his] orders from Stephen Miller.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Senators John Fetterman and Martin Heinrich were the only Democrats to vote in favor. To many, this is an answered prayer. For years now, Senator Fetterman has served as a powerful display of bipartisanship in Congress, siding with Republicans on issues that truly matter. Intercessors have prayed that another senator would join him, and Senator Heinrich may just be an answer to those prayers.\n<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s thank God for Senator Heinrich\u2019s efforts to cross the aisle, and let\u2019s pray for Senator Markwayne Mullin as the Senate votes on whether or not to make him the next Secretary of Homeland Security.\n<\/p>\n

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(Excerpt from the Daily Caller. Photo Credit: Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)
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Reading Time: 2 minutes UPDATE: Senator Mullin was confirmed late last night to serve as the next Secretary of Homeland Security. Let\u2019s pray for him! On Sunday, the Senate voted to advance the President\u2019s nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to head the Department of Homeland Security. Surprising many, however, is a certain Democrat who voted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5728,663,2194,1155,1361,56,430],"class_list":["post-23595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prayer","tag-answered","tag-democrat","tag-dhs","tag-helps","tag-mullin","tag-prayer","tag-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}