Some lawmakers say that the Department of Homeland Security shutdown is hindering coordination and safety preparations for the upcoming FIFA World Cup games across the country.<\/p>\n
The department has operated without full funding from Congress for more than 100 days over the past year, interrupting agencies\u2019 coordination with city and state officials, delaying trainings and leading to an exodus of DHS staff ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re talking about an international event in the area most targeted for terrorism,\u201d said Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York, which is\u00a0listed as a host site for the games.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cI think it is insane that we are in a situation where the department responsible for coordinating the security of this event has been shut down for over 110 days. At a time we\u2019re at war, by the way.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was produced as part of a partnership between NOTUS <\/a>\u2014 a publication from the nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute \u2014 and NEWSWELL<\/a>, home of Times of San Diego<\/a>, Santa Barbara News-Press<\/a> and Stocktonia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some lawmakers say that the Department of Homeland Security shutdown is hindering coordination and safety preparations for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[15392,5171,638,8406,74,76,75,16741],"class_list":["post-287543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-dhs","tag-government-shutdown","tag-notus","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}