{"id":18317,"date":"2026-01-28T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-on-defense-over-noems-future-as-congress-nears-shutdown-deadline\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:22:09","slug":"gop-on-defense-over-noems-future-as-congress-nears-shutdown-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-on-defense-over-noems-future-as-congress-nears-shutdown-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP on defense over Noem\u2019s future as Congress nears shutdown deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristi Noem&rsquo;s continued leadership of the Department of Homeland Security is becoming a major obstacle to getting a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown passed through the Senate. A growing number of Senate Democrats are calling for Noem to be ousted, casting doubts on the prospect that they would agree to any concessions from&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5709389-ice-leadership-under-fire\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristi Noem&rsquo;s continued leadership of the Department of Homeland Security is becoming a major obstacle to getting a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown passed through the Senate. A growing number of Senate Democrats are calling for Noem to be ousted, casting doubts on the prospect that they would agree to any concessions from&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18317","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\/18317","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=18317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}