{"id":69970,"date":"2026-03-25T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/republicans-propose-bill-to-fund-iran-war-amid-fight-over-dhs-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:01:17","slug":"republicans-propose-bill-to-fund-iran-war-amid-fight-over-dhs-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/republicans-propose-bill-to-fund-iran-war-amid-fight-over-dhs-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans propose bill to fund Iran war amid fight over DHS shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Party intends to craft bill using reconciliation procedure, which will allow it to circumvent Senate filibuster<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/24\/us-politics-latest-news-donald-trump-ice-airport-midterms-donald-trump-marco-rubio\"><strong>US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\"><strong>Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Senate Republicans on Wednesday announced plans to begin a unilateral push for legislation that may include funding for Donald Trump\u2019s war with Iran and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while also including elements of a voter ID bill that is a priority of the party\u2019s right wing.<\/p>\n<p>The legislative effort \u2013 which could take weeks to play out and has no guarantee of success \u2013 comes amid a protracted standoff with Democrats over the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/23\/airport-tsa-lines-trump-save-america-act-explained\">lengthy lines<\/a> at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints at some airports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/25\/senate-republicans-bill-iran-war-dhs-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party intends to craft bill using reconciliation procedure, which will allow it to circumvent Senate filibuster US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Senate Republicans on Wednesday announced plans to begin a unilateral push for legislation that may include funding for Donald Trump\u2019s war with Iran and &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans propose bill to fund Iran war amid fight over DHS shutdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/republicans-propose-bill-to-fund-iran-war-amid-fight-over-dhs-shutdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans propose bill to fund Iran war amid fight over DHS shutdown\">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-69970","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\/69970","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=69970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}