{"id":66370,"date":"2026-02-14T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/limited-government-shutdown-likely-to-linger-for-at-least-10-days-as-congress-takes-break\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:15:39","slug":"limited-government-shutdown-likely-to-linger-for-at-least-10-days-as-congress-takes-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/limited-government-shutdown-likely-to-linger-for-at-least-10-days-as-congress-takes-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited government shutdown likely to linger for at least 10 days as Congress takes break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>13% of federal civilian workforce is affected, although DHS \u2013 which spurred budget standoff \u2013 remains funded<\/p>\n<p>A limited US government shutdown came into effect on Saturday \u2013 the third of Donald Trump\u2019s second term \u2013 after negotiations between the White House and Democrats in Congress failed to agree on new restrictions for federal immigration agents.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown affects about 13% of the federal civilian workforce and is confined to agencies under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which screens airline passengers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/14\/limited-government-shutdown-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13% of federal civilian workforce is affected, although DHS \u2013 which spurred budget standoff \u2013 remains funded A limited US government shutdown came into effect on Saturday \u2013 the third of Donald Trump\u2019s second term \u2013 after negotiations between the White House and Democrats in Congress failed to agree on new restrictions for federal immigration &#8230; <a title=\"Limited government shutdown likely to linger for at least 10 days as Congress takes break\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/limited-government-shutdown-likely-to-linger-for-at-least-10-days-as-congress-takes-break\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Limited government shutdown likely to linger for at least 10 days as Congress takes break\">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-66370","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\/66370","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=66370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}