{"id":394931,"date":"2019-02-02T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T06:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-progressive-dems-call-for-cuts-to-dhs-funding-not-another-dollar\/"},"modified":"2019-02-02T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T06:40:17","slug":"prison-planet-com-progressive-dems-call-for-cuts-to-dhs-funding-not-another-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-progressive-dems-call-for-cuts-to-dhs-funding-not-another-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Progressive Dems Call for Cuts to DHS Funding: \u2018Not Another Dollar\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/progressive-dems-call-for-cuts-to-border-patrol-funding\/\"><strong>Free Beacon<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 1, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Progressive members of Congress are pressuring their colleagues to cut funding for the Department of Homeland Security, threatening another government shutdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A copy of the \u201cdear colleague\u201d letter circulated from Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) details their demands concerning homeland security, the\u00a0<em>Daily Beast\u00a0<\/em>first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/progressive-democrats-to-shutdown-negotiators-not-another-dollar-in-dhs-funding\">reported<\/a> Thursday. A member of Omar\u2019s staff confirmed the letter\u2019s authenticity in an email to the <em>Washington\u00a0Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was\u00a0distributed to the members of the bipartisan, bicameral committee responsible for reaching an arrangement to fund the government for the rest of fiscal year 2019. The government was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/am-joy\/watch\/trump-government-shutdown-ends-after-longest-in-history-but-just-temporarily-1432760899757\">shut down<\/a>\u00a0for a record 35 days after President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats came to an impasse over funding for a wall along the southern border. The two sides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/01\/25\/government-shutdown-president-trump-anounces-deal-what-to-know\/2680685002\/\">agreed<\/a>\u00a0last Friday to fund the government for several weeks, allowing government agencies to reopen and employees to receive paychecks while Washington hashes out a budget.<\/p>\n<p>The letter accuses homeland security officials of failing to report deaths in a timely manner, evading congressional oversight, and operating as a \u201cslush fund\u201d for other federal projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/progressive-dems-call-for-cuts-to-border-patrol-funding\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, February 1, 2019  at  8:07 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/progressive-dems-call-for-cuts-to-dhs-funding-not-another-dollar.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/progressive-dems-call-for-cuts-to-dhs-funding-not-another-dollar.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free BeaconFebruary 1, 2019 Progressive members of Congress are pressuring their colleagues to cut funding for the Department of Homeland Security, threatening another government shutdown. A copy of the \u201cdear colleague\u201d letter circulated from Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) details their demands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}