{"id":20986,"date":"2026-04-06T02:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republican-divisions-trumps-detachment-stymie-gop-efforts-to-reopen-dhs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:22:15","slug":"republican-divisions-trumps-detachment-stymie-gop-efforts-to-reopen-dhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republican-divisions-trumps-detachment-stymie-gop-efforts-to-reopen-dhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican divisions, Trump\u2019s detachment stymie GOP efforts to reopen DHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House and Senate Republicans scrambling to end the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history keep running into themselves.&nbsp; Within the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team haven&rsquo;t found a formula for containing their rebellious conservative wing. Between the chambers, Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) have been at odds over&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5815769-johnson-thune-trump-dhs-shutdown\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House and Senate Republicans scrambling to end the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history keep running into themselves.&nbsp; Within the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team haven&rsquo;t found a formula for containing their rebellious conservative wing. Between the chambers, Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) have been at odds over&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20986","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\/20986","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=20986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}