{"id":22429,"date":"2026-03-29T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/himes-says-congress-has-gotten-too-used-to-using-shutdowns-for-leverage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:19:17","slug":"himes-says-congress-has-gotten-too-used-to-using-shutdowns-for-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/himes-says-congress-has-gotten-too-used-to-using-shutdowns-for-leverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Himes says Congress has &#039;gotten too used to using shutdowns&#039; for leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/himesjim_031926gn02_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that Congress has grown too accustomed to shutting down the government as leverage to pass legislation, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains unfunded. \u201cWe have gotten too used to using shutdowns as a mechanism of getting what we want legislatively,\u201d the Connecticut Democrat told host Margaret Brennan&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5806605-himes-ice-reforms-shutdown\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that Congress has grown too accustomed to shutting down the government as leverage to pass legislation, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains unfunded. \u201cWe have gotten too used to using shutdowns as a mechanism of getting what we want legislatively,\u201d the Connecticut Democrat told host Margaret Brennan&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}