{"id":20257,"date":"2026-03-19T17:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-recess-at-risk-if-dhs-shutdown-continues-thune-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:01:40","slug":"senate-recess-at-risk-if-dhs-shutdown-continues-thune-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-recess-at-risk-if-dhs-shutdown-continues-thune-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate recess at risk if DHS shutdown continues, Thune says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51242\" data-person-id=\"51242\">John Thune<\/a> suggested Thursday the Senate will not go on recess as planned at the end of next week if the Department of Homeland Security isn\u2019t funded by then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to get this resolved and it needs to get resolved, you know, by the end of next week,\u201d Thune said. &#8220;I can\u2019t see us taking a break if the [department\u2019s] still shut down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thune\u2019s comments to reporters come as a bipartisan group of senators, including members of the Appropriations Committee and a clutch of Democrats that helped negotiate the end to the last shutdown, meet privately in the Capitol with Tom Homan, Trump\u2019s border czar.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting \u2014 coming as TSA staffing issues create long lines at some airports \u2014 is the first sign in weeks of potential momentum in the DHS funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune suggested Thursday the Senate will not go on recess as planned at the end of next week if the Department of Homeland Security isn\u2019t funded by then. \u201cWe need to get this resolved and it needs to get resolved, you know, by the end of next week,\u201d Thune said. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257","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=20257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}