{"id":18668,"date":"2026-02-05T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-the-democrats-not-opposed-to-another-dhs-punt-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:22:11","slug":"capitol-agenda-the-democrats-not-opposed-to-another-dhs-punt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-the-democrats-not-opposed-to-another-dhs-punt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: The Democrats not opposed to another DHS punt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sizable number of Senate Democrats haven&rsquo;t ruled out another short-term funding punt for the Department of Homeland Security. Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer sent a formal wishlist of DHS policy changes Wednesday to GOP leaders Mike Johnson and John Thune. But Republicans have little interest in their ideas&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/05\/congress\/dhs-funding-democrats-deal-stopgap-continuing-resolution-00766669\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sizable number of Senate Democrats haven&rsquo;t ruled out another short-term funding punt for the Department of Homeland Security. Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer sent a formal wishlist of DHS policy changes Wednesday to GOP leaders Mike Johnson and John Thune. But Republicans have little interest in their ideas&#8230;Read More<\/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-18668","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\/18668","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=18668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}