{"id":10640,"date":"2025-06-26T03:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-budget-director-faces-bipartisan-heat-in-senate-on-doge-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T03:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:20:44","slug":"trump-budget-director-faces-bipartisan-heat-in-senate-on-doge-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-budget-director-faces-bipartisan-heat-in-senate-on-doge-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump budget director faces bipartisan heat in Senate on DOGE cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House budget chief Russell Vought faced heat from both sides of the aisle Wednesday as he sought to make the case to senators to pass the administration&rsquo;s roughly $9 billion in proposed cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting funds.  Vought testified before the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee to defend the special request from&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/budget\/5370122-vought-bipartisan-heat-senate-doge-cuts\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House budget chief Russell Vought faced heat from both sides of the aisle Wednesday as he sought to make the case to senators to pass the administration&rsquo;s roughly $9 billion in proposed cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting funds. Vought testified before the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee to defend the special request from&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640","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=10640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}