{"id":20580,"date":"2026-03-26T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/john-thune-says-hes-aiming-to-land-dhs-deal-thursday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:16:55","slug":"john-thune-says-hes-aiming-to-land-dhs-deal-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/john-thune-says-hes-aiming-to-land-dhs-deal-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"John Thune says he’s aiming to land DHS deal Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> said he wants to clinch a bipartisan Department of Homeland Security funding agreement Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Dems are now in possession of what I think is our last and final\u201d offer, Thune told reporters. \u201cSo let’s hope this gets it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to know soon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The South Dakota Republican declined to discuss details of the offer but suggested it was similar to where the discussions were headed over the weekend. GOP senators then were looking at a bipartisan deal that would fund most of DHS but leave out funding for ICE\u2019s Enforcement and Removal Operations.<\/p>\n

That offer was rejected by Democrats. But two people granted anonymity to discuss the revised proposal said it, too, omitted only ERO money but included additional language to try to address some of Democrats\u2019 concerns.<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The Senate is expected to vote again on the House-passed DHS bill Thursday afternoon. The House is also voting again on DHS funding Thursday and is planning to leave town Friday morning for a two-week holiday recess. Progress in the Senate could prompt House GOP leaders to stay in session in hopes of sending a bill to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Asked about the Senate vote, Thune said he hoped there would be \u201csome finality in this real soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he wants to clinch a bipartisan Department of Homeland Security funding agreement Thursday. \u201cI think the Dems are now in possession of what I think is our last and final\u201d offer, Thune told reporters. \u201cSo let’s hope this gets it done.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re going to know soon,\u201d he added. The […]<\/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-20580","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\/20580","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=20580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}