The Oklahoma Republican faced a glide path to confirmation with the help of two Democratic senators.

A day after President Trump said he did not want a compromise, Senate Republicans sent Democrats a plan that would break off ICE enforcement funding and reopen the rest of the department.

Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) testifies during his confirmation hearing to be the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.

Markwayne Mullin was sworn in on Tuesday as the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, where he’ll inherit an ongoing DHS shutdown and President Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda.

The US senator will now oversee the embattled department after a series of immigration enforcement blunders.

The Oklahoma Republican comes to the helm in the midst of a shutdown that has left some 100,000 of the department's more than a quarter-million employees working without pay.

Newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told senators during his confirmation hearing that he wanted to keep the department out of the headlines. That won’t be easy.

In our news wrap Tuesday, Markwayne Mullin took office as the new head of the Department of Homeland Security, some Republican Senators believe they've reached a deal to end the DHS shutdown, President Trump cast a mail-in ballot in Florida as he publicly calls the method "mail-in cheating" and Hawaii is assessing the full scope of the damage caused by the worst flooding there in decades.

President Donald Trump on Monday encouraged Republicans not to agree to a Department of Homeland Security funding deal that doesn't include the SAVE Act. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: In any event, the Democrats are being blamed by the American people for the catastrophe going on right now at our airports and at other points of transportation and beyond.