{"id":19035,"date":"2026-02-15T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-member-trips-to-munich-elsewhere-at-risk-due-to-likely-dhs-shutdown-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:22:16","slug":"house-member-trips-to-munich-elsewhere-at-risk-due-to-likely-dhs-shutdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-member-trips-to-munich-elsewhere-at-risk-due-to-likely-dhs-shutdown-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House member trips to Munich, elsewhere at risk due to likely DHS shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two dozen House members could miss a major national security gathering in Munich this weekend, thanks to the Senate&#8217;s struggles to strike a deal that would avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. With DHS funding past Friday in doubt, Speaker Mike Johnson told members this week they will not be allowed to travel with official funding during the upcoming recess&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/12\/congress\/house-codels-dhs-shutdown-00777978\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two dozen House members could miss a major national security gathering in Munich this weekend, thanks to the Senate&#8217;s struggles to strike a deal that would avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. With DHS funding past Friday in doubt, Speaker Mike Johnson told members this week they will not be allowed to [&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-19035","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\/19035","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=19035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}