{"id":10684,"date":"2025-06-27T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-thunes-megabill-teeters-on-the-brink-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:20:50","slug":"capitol-agenda-thunes-megabill-teeters-on-the-brink-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-thunes-megabill-teeters-on-the-brink-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Thune\u2019s megabill teeters on the brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune is scrambling to quell the Medicaid-fueled mutiny that&rsquo;s threatening to derail the megabill on both sides of the Capitol. In the Senate, &ldquo;Medicaid moderates&rdquo; are rejecting Finance&rsquo;s opening offer of $15 billion for a stabilization fund for rural hospitals to help offset paring back the provider tax in expansion states from 6 percent to 3.5 percent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/26\/congress\/thune-megabill-medicaid-moderates-hospitals-collins-00425201\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune is scrambling to quell the Medicaid-fueled mutiny that&rsquo;s threatening to derail the megabill on both sides of the Capitol. In the Senate, &ldquo;Medicaid moderates&rdquo; are rejecting Finance&rsquo;s opening offer of $15 billion for a stabilization fund for rural hospitals to help offset paring back the provider tax in expansion states [&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-10684","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\/10684","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=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}