{"id":20484,"date":"2026-03-24T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/emerging-dhs-deal-acceptable-white-house-official-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:17:05","slug":"emerging-dhs-deal-acceptable-white-house-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/emerging-dhs-deal-acceptable-white-house-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging DHS deal &#8216;acceptable,&#8217; White House official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump hasn&#8217;t yet publicly weighed in on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/23\/dhs-shutdown-talks-breakthrough-00841195\" target=\"_blank\">brewing deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security<\/a>, but a White House official said Tuesday morning the yet-to-be-finalized bipartisan agreement \u201cseems to be an acceptable solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That official, granted anonymity to discuss the private deliberations, noted that \u201cconversations are ongoing\u201d to finalize a deal with Democrats to fund DHS more than five weeks after funding lapsed. It would pair funding for most of the department, save for ICE enforcement operations, with a new GOP reconciliation effort to pass the left-behind funding plus parts of the GOP elections bill known as the SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n<p>The framework took flight after a group of Republican senators met with Trump at the White House late Monday, a day after the president\u2019s public rejection of action to fund DHS without passage of the SAVE America Act alongside it.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jennifer Scholtes contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump hasn&#8217;t yet publicly weighed in on a brewing deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but a White House official said Tuesday morning the yet-to-be-finalized bipartisan agreement \u201cseems to be an acceptable solution.\u201d That official, granted anonymity to discuss the private deliberations, noted that \u201cconversations are ongoing\u201d to finalize a deal [&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-20484","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\/20484","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=20484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}