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Senate Confirms Mayorkas As Biden's Homeland Security Chief

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday as
   President Joe Biden's Homeland Security secretary, the first Latino to
   fill a post that will have a central role in the government's response
   to the coronavirus pandemic, a sweeping Russia-linked cyber hack and
   domestic extremism.

   Mayorkas was confirmed by a 56-43 vote, the narrowest margin yet for a
   Biden Cabinet nominee. The first immigrant to serve in the job, he is
   expected to lead a broad policy overhaul of an agency that was accused
   of being deeply politicized as it carried out President Donald Trump's
   initiatives on immigration and law enforcement.

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