{"id":10462,"date":"2025-06-20T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-rand-paul-forces-gop-into-megabill-runaround-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:23:09","slug":"capitol-agenda-rand-paul-forces-gop-into-megabill-runaround-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-rand-paul-forces-gop-into-megabill-runaround-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Rand Paul forces GOP into megabill runaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul is a frequent thorn in GOP leadership&rsquo;s side. But his recent break over border security funding in President Donald Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;big beautiful bill&rdquo; has top Republicans pushing the bounds of institutional norms to rein him in. Senior Republicans have sidelined the Kentucky Republican&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/20\/congress\/rand-paul-republican-megabill-border-homeland-security-00414655\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul is a frequent thorn in GOP leadership&rsquo;s side. But his recent break over border security funding in President Donald Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;big beautiful bill&rdquo; has top Republicans pushing the bounds of institutional norms to rein him in. Senior Republicans have sidelined the Kentucky Republican&#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-10462","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\/10462","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=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}