{"id":11049,"date":"2025-07-07T08:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-he-has-the-votes-to-pass-the-gop-megabill-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:21:42","slug":"johnson-says-he-has-the-votes-to-pass-the-gop-megabill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-he-has-the-votes-to-pass-the-gop-megabill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson says he has the votes to pass the GOP megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Thursday morning he had the votes to pass Republicans&rsquo; domestic policy megabill and would lose only &ldquo;one or two&rdquo; GOP lawmakers ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline.  &ldquo;We&#8217;ll get this. We&#8217;ll land this plane before July 4,&rdquo; he told reporters. GOP leaders are barreling toward a final passage vote on the megabill as soon as this afternoon after pulling an all-nighter to advance the bill over the initial opposition of conservative holdouts upset at changes the Senate made to the package&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/03\/congress\/johnsons-megabill-confidence-00438646\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Thursday morning he had the votes to pass Republicans&rsquo; domestic policy megabill and would lose only &ldquo;one or two&rdquo; GOP lawmakers ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline. &ldquo;We&#8217;ll get this. We&#8217;ll land this plane before July 4,&rdquo; he told reporters. GOP leaders are barreling toward a final passage vote on [&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-11049","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\/11049","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=11049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}