{"id":10348,"date":"2025-06-16T22:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-leaders-say-they-are-pressing-forward-with-vote-on-doge-cuts-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T22:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:20:58","slug":"gop-leaders-say-they-are-pressing-forward-with-vote-on-doge-cuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-leaders-say-they-are-pressing-forward-with-vote-on-doge-cuts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP leaders say they are pressing forward with vote on DOGE cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson expressed confidence ahead of a planned Thursday vote that the House will pass a $9.4 billion spending cuts package as planned. But privately, his whip team is scrambling to shore up enough votes among wary Republicans. &#8220;We think we have the votes. We&rsquo;re going ahead with it,&rdquo; Johnson said&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/12\/congress\/gop-leaders-say-they-are-pressing-forward-with-vote-on-doge-cuts-00403197\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson expressed confidence ahead of a planned Thursday vote that the House will pass a $9.4 billion spending cuts package as planned. But privately, his whip team is scrambling to shore up enough votes among wary Republicans. &#8220;We think we have the votes. We&rsquo;re going ahead with it,&rdquo; Johnson said&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}