{"id":20532,"date":"2026-03-25T15:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-framework-still-best-landing-spot-for-dhs-funding-thune-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:17:56","slug":"gop-framework-still-best-landing-spot-for-dhs-funding-thune-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-framework-still-best-landing-spot-for-dhs-funding-thune-says\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP framework still \u2018best landing spot\u2019 for DHS funding, Thune says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> defended on Wednesday a Department of Homeland Security funding framework as it comes under heavy criticism from Democrats and some conservatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s going to be \u2026 still the best landing spot, but we haven’t heard anything back from the Dems yet,\u201d Thune said when asked if the framework was still viable.<\/p>\n

He added that the best way for the shutdown to end would be for Democrats to \u201ctake a deal\u201d but added that he doubted they \u201chave a clear idea about what they want to do or how they see us concluding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut hopefully they want to see it conclude, because we do, too,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Thune said he spoke Tuesday night with President Donald Trump, who has yet to publicly endorse the framework. Asked if he thought the president supported it, Thune declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Republicans offered this week to take funding for ICE\u2019s Enforcement and Removal Operations out of the DHS funding bill that was on offer in January. But Democrats have balked, saying enforcement policy changes would have to be included in a bill that even partially funds ICE.<\/p>\n

The Senate is scheduled to begin a two-week recess later this week, but Thune said it was an \u201copen question\u201d whether that happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we haven\u2019t figured out how to fund the government, then it seems like that really complicates us leaving here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Majority Leader John Thune defended on Wednesday a Department of Homeland Security funding framework as it comes under heavy criticism from Democrats and some conservatives. \u201cI think it’s going to be \u2026 still the best landing spot, but we haven’t heard anything back from the Dems yet,\u201d Thune said when asked if the framework […]<\/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-20532","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\/20532","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=20532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}