{"id":8157,"date":"2026-03-12T20:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:14:38","slug":"us-homeland-security-departments-funding-negotiations-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/12\/us-homeland-security-departments-funding-negotiations-stall\/","title":{"rendered":"US Homeland Security Department\u2019s funding negotiations stall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has entered its third partial shutdown of the Trump administration&#8217;s second term after funding run out, as negotiations stalled over Democratic demands for immigration reform. These demands follow two fatal shootings of US citizens in Minneapolis by federal agents, leading to calls for increased oversight of  the DHS, judicial warrants for property searches, and better coordination with state law enforcement. While 95% of TSA staff and other essential personnel continue to work without pay, nearly 3,000 employees have been furloughed while Congress remains in recess until February 23. Republican leaders and border officials have dismissed these proposed reforms as &#8220;unreasonable&#8221; and &#8220;political theatre,&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 16, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2026\/2\/16\/us-homeland-security-departments-funding-negotiations-stall\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has entered its third partial shutdown of the Trump administration&#8217;s second term after funding run out, as negotiations stalled over Democratic demands for immigration reform. These demands follow two fatal shootings of US citizens in Minneapolis by federal agents, leading to calls for increased oversight of the DHS, judicial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-and-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}