Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin testified on his agency’s operations before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and things got heated when a Democrat rolled out the party’s fallback talking points about children being separated at the border — an issue the party only seems to care about when there is a Republican in the White House.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) claimed 3,900 kids were separated from their families, the figure coming from a 2021 report from the federal Family Reunification Task Force, but Mullins had little patience for stale talking points from a fumbling 83-year-old lawmaker with purple hair.
Mullin interrupted to expose the lawmaker’s hypocrisy, saying, “450,000 kids were lost under the Biden administration, and you didn’t say a word about that.”
NEW: Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro has a meltdown after DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin torched her for being a hypocrite.
DeLauro was so flustered after the exchange that she could barely speak.
DeLauro: 3,900 children were separated from their families…
Mullin: 450,000 kids… pic.twitter.com/gBDgUWoMxe
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 25, 2026
“Mr. Secretary, Mr. Secretary, do not interrupt,” the flustered Democratic lawmaker replied, jabbing her finger in his direction.
“Don’t you point your finger at me,” Mullin fired back.
“I will point my finger at you,” DeLauro answered.
“Don’t be a hypocrite. You should be as upset about the 450,000 kids that were lost [under Biden],” Mullin pressed, before adding, “You didn’t say a word about it. For four years, you never said a word.”
Thoroughly outclassed, DeLauro appealed to Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.), the subcommittee chair, to put Mullins “in his place.”
“You should be put in your place,” the secretary shot back.
After Amodei called for order, Mullin said, “I will not sit here and listen to her lie and accuse something this ridiculous.”
When DeLauro said, “Do not accuse me of lying, do not,” Mullin retorted, “Then don’t.”
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on x:
quit shaking your jewelry in a professional setting
— Catholic-T (@Twin66) June 25, 2026
— Travis (@derrickwetherin) June 25, 2026
This woman is terrifying to even look at! She’s concerned about 3,900 children but not 450,000 children who were lost during the Biden Administration and we know for fact the Biden Administration definitely handed many of them over to child traffickers. How do we know…
— LuvAmerica (@TruthHopeful) June 25, 2026
Never trust a Democrat who claims to care deeply about children. Democratic Party leaders have allowed terrible things to happen to children: from the drugs and surgeries they promote and the lies they tell children—that they can be either a boy or a girl—to empowering men to let…
— HI808 (@hi808sun) June 25, 2026
Baba Yaga needs to be sent back to the woods to prey on the children she and the biden admin trafficked into America: pic.twitter.com/uvdILPH7hs
— Thomas_Paine_6771 (@ThomasPain_6771) June 25, 2026
How is this dinosaur still in Congress?
— Def Noodles (@defnoodlesreal) June 25, 2026
