{"id":11474,"date":"2025-07-19T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-rejects-democrats-initial-attempts-to-trim-trumps-cutbacks-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:22:18","slug":"senate-rejects-democrats-initial-attempts-to-trim-trumps-cutbacks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-rejects-democrats-initial-attempts-to-trim-trumps-cutbacks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate rejects Democrats&#8217; initial attempts to trim Trump\u2019s cutbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans batted down Democratic attempts on Wednesday to shrink the $9 billion package of funding clawbacks the chamber is expected to pass after a &ldquo;vote-a-rama&rdquo; amendment spree. Democrats are seeking to knock out pieces of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s request to cancel $8.3 billion in foreign aid&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/16\/congress\/senate-rescissions-amendments-fail-00457137\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans batted down Democratic attempts on Wednesday to shrink the $9 billion package of funding clawbacks the chamber is expected to pass after a &ldquo;vote-a-rama&rdquo; amendment spree. Democrats are seeking to knock out pieces of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s request to cancel $8.3 billion in foreign aid&#8230;Read More<\/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-11474","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\/11474","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=11474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}