{"id":66303,"date":"2026-02-13T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/us-homeland-security-department-on-track-for-shutdown-after-funding-bill-fails-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:30:15","slug":"us-homeland-security-department-on-track-for-shutdown-after-funding-bill-fails-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/us-homeland-security-department-on-track-for-shutdown-after-funding-bill-fails-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"US homeland security department on track for shutdown after funding bill fails in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers left Washington for a long weekend without resolving an impasse over much-criticized agency\u2019s funding<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/13\/trump-climate-epa-repeal-pollution-john-kerry-us-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is on course for an official shutdown at midnight after lawmakers left Washington for a long weekend without resolving an impasse over the much-criticized agency\u2019s funding.<\/p>\n<p>A range of services, including domestic flights and the US Coastguard, could be vulnerable to disruption after the Senate failed on Thursday to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to pass the DHS appropriations bill. Democrats blocked the funding in protest over violent tactics used in the Trump administration\u2019s recent immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/us-homeland-security-department-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers left Washington for a long weekend without resolving an impasse over much-criticized agency\u2019s funding US politics live \u2013 latest updates The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is on course for an official shutdown at midnight after lawmakers left Washington for a long weekend without resolving an impasse over the much-criticized agency\u2019s funding. A range &#8230; <a title=\"US homeland security department on track for shutdown after funding bill fails in Senate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/us-homeland-security-department-on-track-for-shutdown-after-funding-bill-fails-in-senate\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US homeland security department on track for shutdown after funding bill fails in Senate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}