{"id":18746,"date":"2026-02-08T00:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-lawmakers-brace-for-a-dhs-shutdown-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:22:23","slug":"capitol-agenda-lawmakers-brace-for-a-dhs-shutdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-lawmakers-brace-for-a-dhs-shutdown-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Lawmakers brace for a DHS shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress just launched itself onto a nine-day runway to overcome deep partisan divides over the fate of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s immigration enforcement agenda &mdash; and conditions are trending toward another lengthy shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security. According to several senators, DHS funding talks were largely on hold while lawmakers waited for the House to clear the Senate-passed&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/04\/congress\/shutdown-dhs-stopgap-funding-bill-ice-cbp-00763914\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress just launched itself onto a nine-day runway to overcome deep partisan divides over the fate of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s immigration enforcement agenda &mdash; and conditions are trending toward another lengthy shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security. According to several senators, DHS funding talks were largely on hold while lawmakers waited for the House [&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-18746","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\/18746","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=18746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}