{"id":13466,"date":"2025-09-19T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-floats-member-security-funding-package-in-october\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:02:25","slug":"speaker-floats-member-security-funding-package-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-floats-member-security-funding-package-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker floats member security funding package in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday teased passing a possible member security supplemental package in October, as he\u2019s facing a handful of GOP members still balking over the issue ahead of the big funding stopgap vote later in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said he expects a \u201cstandalone measure\u201d to boost security, though he didn&#8217;t bring this up during a meeting last night on the topic \u2014 there, he discussed boosting the dollar amount for member security funding as part of the fiscal 2026 legislative branch spending bill, according to two people in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Louisiana Republican said he thinks he has the votes to pass the GOP-led funding patch, though he conceded he still has to touch base with \u201ca couple people, as always\u201d beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also told reporters he hadn\u2019t yet decided whether the House will adjourn after the Friday morning vote series and not return until after Oct. 1, when government funding will expire if shutdown-averting legislation isn&#8217;t enacted. It would be a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/18\/congress\/house-cr-vote-senate-jam-00571830\" target=\"_blank\">jam the Senate<\/a> into taking the House GOP product, as Democrats are still insisting they won&#8217;t bite.<\/p>\n<p>He said he hoped the Senate will do \u201cthe right thing,&#8221; adding that the Democratic counteroffer &#8220;is not a serious one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday teased passing a possible member security supplemental package in October, as he\u2019s facing a handful of GOP members still balking over the issue ahead of the big funding stopgap vote later in the morning. Johnson said he expects a \u201cstandalone measure\u201d to boost security, though he didn&#8217;t bring this up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}