The head of the Department of Homeland Security is trying to land his wife a plush government job, according to Washington insiders who spoke out in a new report on Wednesday.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, whom Trump appointed earlier this year, keeps suggesting that his wife, Christie Mullin, should have a job with his department, four insiders told The Daily Mail.
"He pitches the idea on the regular," a source revealed to The Daily Mail.
The Cabinet member frequently travels via a $70 million government jet to his Oklahoma ranch, and he wants his wife on the DHS payroll "so that he does not have to pay for her airline ticket when she flies," according to sources from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spoke to the outlet for the bombshell report.
"Mullin seems to think DHS requires less work than a senator, and it shows," a DHS source said. "Meanwhile, ICE has no direction."
He's supposedly looking to land his wife a contracting role with a Special Government Employee designation that would pay between $65 and $70 an hour, according to three people quoted by The Daily Mail. The designation would allow his wife to work up to 130 days a year as a consultant, advisor, or temporary employee, the Mail added.
Mullin's wife currently works as the chair of rural policy for the America First Policy Institute, according to the nonprofit think tank's website.
According to the Mail's sources, Mullin likes to leave Washington, D.C. on Thursday mornings and often doesn't return until Monday. They add that Mullin rushed out of D.C. "just hours" after the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack in April.