{"id":19440,"date":"2026-02-28T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fema-taps-billions-for-disasters-warning-democrats-of-dire-shutdown-impact-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:22:15","slug":"fema-taps-billions-for-disasters-warning-democrats-of-dire-shutdown-impact-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fema-taps-billions-for-disasters-warning-democrats-of-dire-shutdown-impact-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA taps billions for disasters, warning Democrats of \u2018dire\u2019 shutdown impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration spent more than half of the balance in the nation&rsquo;s disaster relief fund this week, pointing to that dwindling aid as means to pressure Democrats into yielding in Department of Homeland Security funding negotiations. A FEMA spokesperson said Friday that the agency sent out more than $5 billion this week for recovery projects&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/27\/congress\/disaster-aid-wanes-00804052\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration spent more than half of the balance in the nation&rsquo;s disaster relief fund this week, pointing to that dwindling aid as means to pressure Democrats into yielding in Department of Homeland Security funding negotiations. A FEMA spokesperson said Friday that the agency sent out more than $5 billion this week for recovery [&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-19440","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\/19440","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=19440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}