{"id":81767,"date":"2026-03-27T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81767"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:58:31","slug":"u-s-senate-urgently-approves-funding-for-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-senate-urgently-approves-funding-for-tsa\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senate Urgently Approves Funding For TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Senate early Friday morning approved\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-department-of-homeland-security\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Homeland Security<\/a><\/span>\u00a0funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other agencies, but not the immigration enforcement operations at the heart of the\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/tsa-government-shutdown-ice-trump-03-26-2026\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">budget impasse<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that has\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shutdown-houston-airport-travel-impact-c46f4d6f49383bc9a457f3ebe001fbc1\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">jammed airports<\/a><\/span>, disrupted travel and imposed\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tsa-agents-airports-government-shutdown-02c8fdbda5488b1cfb019fcf79c0430a\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">financial hardship<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on workers.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which the Senate approved unanimously without a roll call, next goes to the House, which is expected to consider it Friday.\u00a0\u201cWe can get at least a lot of the government opened up again and then we\u2019ll go from there,\u201d said\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/john-thune\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u201cObviously, we\u2019ll still have some work ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774598311\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"U.S. Senate Urgently Approves Funding For TSA\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The Senate early Friday morning approved\u00a0Homeland Security\u00a0funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other agencies, but.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}