{"id":19665,"date":"2026-03-06T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/markwayne-mullin-faces-a-straightforward-path-to-confirmation-as-dhs-secretary-3\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:22:15","slug":"markwayne-mullin-faces-a-straightforward-path-to-confirmation-as-dhs-secretary-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/markwayne-mullin-faces-a-straightforward-path-to-confirmation-as-dhs-secretary-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Markwayne Mullin faces a straightforward path to confirmation as DHS secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate tends to be kind to its own members, and at least one Democrat is on board&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/05\/markwayne-mullin-confirmation-dhs-00815293\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate tends to be kind to its own members, and at least one Democrat is on board&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}