{"id":11605,"date":"2025-07-23T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-want-to-rename-kennedy-centers-opera-house-after-melania-trump-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:22:00","slug":"republicans-want-to-rename-kennedy-centers-opera-house-after-melania-trump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-want-to-rename-kennedy-centers-opera-house-after-melania-trump-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans want to rename Kennedy Center\u2019s opera house after Melania Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are moving to rename the opera house in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after first lady Melania Trump. House appropriators voted 33-25 on Tuesday to advance language introduced by Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) that would make most of the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s funding contingent on the name change in their markup of the fiscal 2026 Interior-Environment spending bill&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/22\/congress\/kennedy-center-melania-trump-00467996\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are moving to rename the opera house in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after first lady Melania Trump. House appropriators voted 33-25 on Tuesday to advance language introduced by Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) that would make most of the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s funding contingent on the name change in their [&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-11605","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\/11605","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=11605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}