DHS nominee Millin senate confirmation hearing: Live updates
Paul challenged Mullin over his earlier remarks about Paul’s assault and raised the possibility of delaying the committee’s vote.
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The Boston Globe is an established regional newspaper with professional reporting standards and an identified staff byline. This live-update page also incorporates material explicitly attributed to the Associated Press.
- Track record — Established regional newspaper with a long-running news operation.
- Editorial standards — Professional newsroom; the page distinguishes reporting from attributed AP updates.
- Author attribution — A Globe staff byline is identified, though many updates are credited to the Associated Press.
- Transparency — The page identifies the news organization and labels the AP contributions.
The live updates provide detailed exchanges and attribute statements to the participants, while presenting questions from senators of both parties. The fast-moving format offers limited independent verification and context for some claims, and includes some background material alongside hearing coverage.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The updates include the nominee’s answers and questions from senators across the aisle, along with critical and supportive remarks. The coverage gives substantial attention to disputes and concerns but provides little independent examination of the claims raised.
- Counterarguments presented — Mullin’s responses appear alongside senators’ criticisms and questions.
- Source diversity — The hearing voices include Republicans and Democrats, though most information comes from participants.
- Opinion vs reporting — The page primarily reports exchanges and attributes opinions to their speakers.
- Omitted context — The rapid-update format leaves some allegations and policy claims without additional verification or response.
The live updates quote Mullin and senators from both parties and mostly describe the hearing in straightforward language. Critical remarks about Mullin are attributed to the senators who made them.
- Language tone — Mostly descriptive and restrained, with sharper phrases presented as direct quotations.
- Source selection — Includes Mullin’s answers and questioning from Republican and Democratic senators.
- Framing — Frames the piece as live hearing coverage rather than an argument for or against the nominee.
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At Markwayne Mullin’s Senate confirmation hearing for Homeland Security secretary, senators questioned him about immigration enforcement, FEMA, and a classified overseas trip. Rand Paul also challenged Mullin over earlier remarks about an assault on Paul, and Mullin refused to apologize.
At the hearing, senators asked Mullin about immigration enforcement, FEMA, DHS data, and a trip he described as official and classified. Mullin said he would discontinue Kristi Noem’s policy requiring her personal approval for certain FEMA expenditures, and said agents would not enter homes or businesses without a judicial warrant, subject to an exception he described. He agreed to discuss the overseas trip in a private classified setting; Paul said he could cancel a planned committee vote if Mullin did not provide satisfactory answers.
Paul pressed Mullin to apologize for earlier remarks about a neighbor who assaulted Paul. Mullin said, “I am not apologizing.” Mullin also said he had made a mistake in his earlier description of Alex Pretti and that he had responded “without the facts.”
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36 OUTLETSAt Markwayne Mullin’s Senate confirmation hearing for Homeland Security secretary, Rand Paul challenged him over past remarks about Paul’s assault and political violence, and said he would vote against the nomination. Left-leaning outlets center Paul’s criticism, with some presenting it as merited and relevant to Mullin’s fitness. Center outlets pair the confrontation with Mullin’s answers and questions about DHS policy, funding, immigration and travel. Right-leaning outlets also stress the clash, while some foreground Mullin’s rebuttal or question Paul’s conduct.
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