{"id":18761,"date":"2026-02-08T20:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fetterman-absolutely-expects-government-shutdown-over-dhs-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T20:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:20:30","slug":"fetterman-absolutely-expects-government-shutdown-over-dhs-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fetterman-absolutely-expects-government-shutdown-over-dhs-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman &#8216;absolutely&#8217; expects government shutdown over DHS funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Sunday said he &ldquo;absolutely&rdquo; expects a partial government shutdown amid the funding battle over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). &ldquo;I absolutely would expect that it&#8217;s going to shut down. I know, we the Democrats, we provided, I think it was 10 kinds of basic things&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5728609-fetterman-expects-dhs-shutdown\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Sunday said he &ldquo;absolutely&rdquo; expects a partial government shutdown amid the funding battle over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). &ldquo;I absolutely would expect that it&#8217;s going to shut down. I know, we the Democrats, we provided, I think it was 10 kinds of basic things&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18761","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\/18761","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=18761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}