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Homeland Security's Mark Wayne Mullen and His Roommate
from Ed Sheeran, Sydney Sweeney, & Kash Patel’s Pet Fetish | The Tim Dillon Show #513 · #513
8 min
Tim covers the strange living arrangement of DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, who shares a Capitol Hill house with Congressman Jason Smith despite owning 40 properties, riffing on hypocrisy and ethics questions, then plugs the Bannon/Sanders anti-AI tour event.
- Tim criticizes Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for using AI danger warnings to inflate stock price and justify trillion-dollar funding requests.
- Mark Wayne Mullen, the Secretary of Homeland Security, owns 40 properties but chooses to live with Republican Representative Jason Smith as roommates.
- Mullen and Smith have shared a Capitol Hill residence for three years, described by insiders as an unusual arrangement for a cabinet secretary.
- Mullen and Smith met at a gym and became close during their time in Congress, with Smith later calling Mullen a man of God and father.
- The roommate arrangement raises ethics questions about whether below-market rent could violate House rules prohibiting gifts worth over $100 from a single source.
- Tim argues the situation is bizarre and weirder if the two men are not having a romantic relationship, given they're both wealthy, middle-aged cabinet members.
- Mullen's representative claims he bought the house in 2023 and acts as Smith's landlord, but declined to disclose monthly rent or provide public records of any payment.
- Tim defends questioning why a Homeland Security Secretary chooses a roommate over a private crash pad, noting it's genuinely strange for someone of his position and wealth.
Mark Wayne MullenDario AmodeiAnthropicJason SmithKash PatelSteve BannonBernie Sanders