{"id":10899,"date":"2025-07-02T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-is-working-the-phones-to-get-megabill-over-the-finish-line\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:46:47","slug":"trump-is-working-the-phones-to-get-megabill-over-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-is-working-the-phones-to-get-megabill-over-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is &#8216;working the phones&#8217; to get megabill over the finish line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump is ramping up a pressure campaign on House Freedom Caucus members as he tries to get his \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d across the finish line ahead of his July 4 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>A White House official, granted anonymity to speak candidly about strategy, confirmed that the president is meeting with House Freedom Caucus members and other GOP lawmakers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been working the phones pretty consistently over the last several days, and members have been calling him as well,\u201d the official said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to get it over the finish line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) was among a handful of Republicans spotted arriving at the White House Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump is ramping up a pressure campaign on House Freedom Caucus members as he tries to get his \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d across the finish line ahead of his July 4 deadline. A White House official, granted anonymity to speak candidly about strategy, confirmed that the president is meeting with House Freedom Caucus members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899","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=10899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}