{"id":18495,"date":"2026-02-01T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-senate-shutdown-deal-hits-a-lindsey-graham-snag-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:22:28","slug":"capitol-agenda-senate-shutdown-deal-hits-a-lindsey-graham-snag-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-senate-shutdown-deal-hits-a-lindsey-graham-snag-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Senate shutdown deal hits a Lindsey Graham snag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A partial shutdown of multiple federal agencies is just 16 hours away as the Senate deals with a Lindsey Graham-sized snag and House Republicans face pressure from President Donald Trump to expedite whatever the other chamber sends their way. Here&rsquo;s the latest on the stop-start drama around the government funding deal: &mdash; Graham&#8217;s revenge: It sure seemed like the Senate was ready to vote Thursday night after Trump and Democrats struck a compromise &mdash; enactment of five of the full-year appropriations bills and a two-week Homeland Security stopgap &mdash; to buy time for both sides to negotiate new guardrails for the administration&rsquo;s immigration enforcement activities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/30\/congress\/shutdown-deal-lindsey-graham-dhs-00756840\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partial shutdown of multiple federal agencies is just 16 hours away as the Senate deals with a Lindsey Graham-sized snag and House Republicans face pressure from President Donald Trump to expedite whatever the other chamber sends their way. Here&rsquo;s the latest on the stop-start drama around the government funding deal: &mdash; Graham&#8217;s revenge: It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18495","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=18495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}