{"id":20741,"date":"2026-03-30T02:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/burchett-calls-for-new-senate-leadership-after-dhs-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:22:12","slug":"burchett-calls-for-new-senate-leadership-after-dhs-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/burchett-calls-for-new-senate-leadership-after-dhs-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Burchett calls for new Senate leadership after DHS vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Sunday his party needs new leadership in the Senate after the GOP-controlled upper chamber passed a partial funding package for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the dead of night.&nbsp; Burchett called the package a &ldquo;huge mistake&rdquo; and said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should have been informed about&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5806741-burchett-slams-senate-leadership\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Sunday his party needs new leadership in the Senate after the GOP-controlled upper chamber passed a partial funding package for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the dead of night.&nbsp; Burchett called the package a &ldquo;huge mistake&rdquo; and said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should have been informed about&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741","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=20741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}