{"id":10431,"date":"2025-06-19T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-eyes-mid-week-start-for-megabill-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:20:40","slug":"thune-eyes-mid-week-start-for-megabill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-eyes-mid-week-start-for-megabill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune eyes mid-week start for megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday the chamber will &#8220;hopefully&#8221; take up the GOP&#8217;s party-line megabill starting in the middle of next week. GOP leaders have been tentatively planning for an initial procedural vote as soon as next Wednesday, setting up a final vote over the weekend &mdash; a timeline previously reported by Blue Light News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/18\/congress\/thune-megabill-timeline-00412722\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday the chamber will &#8220;hopefully&#8221; take up the GOP&#8217;s party-line megabill starting in the middle of next week. GOP leaders have been tentatively planning for an initial procedural vote as soon as next Wednesday, setting up a final vote over the weekend &mdash; a timeline previously reported by Blue [&hellip;]<\/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-10431","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\/10431","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=10431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}