{"id":18807,"date":"2026-02-09T23:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-republicans-prepare-dhs-punt-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:22:15","slug":"capitol-agenda-republicans-prepare-dhs-punt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-republicans-prepare-dhs-punt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Republicans prepare DHS punt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With fewer than five days to go before a DHS shutdown, Senate Democrats have put bill text for full-year funding on the table. But another punt is probably still the best-case scenario, and it&rsquo;s by no means guaranteed. &mdash; What Democrats are pitching: The draft legislation Democrats sent Republicans on Sunday would codify the immigration enforcement guardrails outlined by Democratic leaders last week&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/09\/congress\/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-continuing-resolution-00771028\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fewer than five days to go before a DHS shutdown, Senate Democrats have put bill text for full-year funding on the table. But another punt is probably still the best-case scenario, and it&rsquo;s by no means guaranteed. &mdash; What Democrats are pitching: The draft legislation Democrats sent Republicans on Sunday would codify the immigration [&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-18807","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\/18807","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=18807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}