{"id":18262,"date":"2026-01-27T09:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrat-suozzi-says-he-failed-with-vote-to-pass-dhs-funding-bill-i-must-do-a-better-job\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:22:15","slug":"democrat-suozzi-says-he-failed-with-vote-to-pass-dhs-funding-bill-i-must-do-a-better-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrat-suozzi-says-he-failed-with-vote-to-pass-dhs-funding-bill-i-must-do-a-better-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Suozzi says he &#8216;failed&#8217; with vote to pass DHS funding bill: &#8216;I must do a better job&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) expressed regret on Monday for voting last week to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In a statement on Facebook, the moderate Democrat said the backlash from his constituents &mdash; paired with the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol officer &mdash; has compelled him&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5707544-suozzi-regret-dhs-vote\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) expressed regret on Monday for voting last week to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In a statement on Facebook, the moderate Democrat said the backlash from his constituents &mdash; paired with the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol officer &mdash; has compelled him&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262","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=18262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}