Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin attended his first Cabinet meeting Thursday, a gathering that comes at a crucial time as negotiations on Capitol Hill to fund his department are teetering on the edge of collapse.

President Donald Trump did not call on Mullin to deliver his own report during the meeting. Trump opened the meeting, however, by praising Mullin before addressing the prolonged DHS shutdown, which he described as the “disgraceful Democrat shutdown.”