{"id":67452,"date":"2026-02-26T16:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/kristi-noem-blames-democrats-for-shutdown-holding-up-625m-in-world-cup-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:55:47","slug":"kristi-noem-blames-democrats-for-shutdown-holding-up-625m-in-world-cup-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/kristi-noem-blames-democrats-for-shutdown-holding-up-625m-in-world-cup-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem blames Democrats for shutdown holding up $625m in World Cup funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Shutdown affecting Fema has caused delay in delivery<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Host city officials concerned about ability to stage events<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Representative Nellie Pou: \u2018Time for DHS to do its job\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, replied forcefully on Thursday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/feb\/24\/world-cup-host-cities-funding-dhs-shutdown\">concerns about a holdup of federal funding<\/a> for this summer\u2019s World Cup, confirming that \u201cno funds have been awarded yet\u201d in a post on X. About $625m in grants administered by the Federal Emergency Management Authority (Fema) were authorized last summer and set to be distributed to US host cities to aid with security and planning for the tournament, which will be co-hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Noem\u2019s comments follow congressional testimony earlier this week by host city officials who expressed concern that they may not have time to adequately prepare for the tournament if they don\u2019t receive the funds in short order.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/feb\/26\/kristi-noem-nellie-pou-world-cup-funding-dhs-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shutdown affecting Fema has caused delay in delivery Host city officials concerned about ability to stage events Representative Nellie Pou: \u2018Time for DHS to do its job\u2019 Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, replied forcefully on Thursday to concerns about a holdup of federal funding for this summer\u2019s World Cup, confirming that \u201cno funds &#8230; <a title=\"Kristi Noem blames Democrats for shutdown holding up $625m in World Cup funding\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/kristi-noem-blames-democrats-for-shutdown-holding-up-625m-in-world-cup-funding\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kristi Noem blames Democrats for shutdown holding up $625m in World Cup funding\">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-67452","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\/67452","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=67452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}