{"id":11404,"date":"2025-07-17T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-senate-passes-cuts-to-foreign-aid-and-public-media-returns-bill-to-house\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:20:45","slug":"live-updates-senate-passes-cuts-to-foreign-aid-and-public-media-returns-bill-to-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-senate-passes-cuts-to-foreign-aid-and-public-media-returns-bill-to-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Senate passes cuts to foreign aid and public media, returns bill to House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate overnight approved the White House&#8217;s $9 billion package of spending cuts to foreign aid programs and public broadcasting. The 51-48 vote on what&rsquo;s known as a rescissions package is a victory for Trump, who has vowed to shrink the size of the federal government&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/trump-the-next-100-days\/5405062-live-updates-trump-epstein-house-crypto\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate overnight approved the White House&#8217;s $9 billion package of spending cuts to foreign aid programs and public broadcasting. The 51-48 vote on what&rsquo;s known as a rescissions package is a victory for Trump, who has vowed to shrink the size of the federal government&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11404","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\/11404","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=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}