{"id":23220,"date":"2026-05-24T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-preparing-to-strip-out-ballroom-security-funding-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:22:12","slug":"gop-preparing-to-strip-out-ballroom-security-funding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-preparing-to-strip-out-ballroom-security-funding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP preparing to strip out ballroom security funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are preparing to remove Secret Service funding from their party-line immigration enforcement bill, according to two people granted anonymity to disclose private discussions. Both people stressed that the decision isn&#8217;t final &mdash; and Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday morning that talks are still ongoing&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/05\/20\/congress\/gop-preparing-to-strip-out-ballroom-security-funding-00929861\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are preparing to remove Secret Service funding from their party-line immigration enforcement bill, according to two people granted anonymity to disclose private discussions. Both people stressed that the decision isn&#8217;t final &mdash; and Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday morning that talks are still ongoing&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220","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=23220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}