{"id":11655,"date":"2025-07-24T17:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thunes-plans-for-the-fall-shutdown-fight-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:21:39","slug":"thunes-plans-for-the-fall-shutdown-fight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thunes-plans-for-the-fall-shutdown-fight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune\u2019s plans for the fall shutdown fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Congress will need a short-term spending bill to prevent a shutdown Oct. 1, with leadership allies likely to push for a patch running up until the year-end holidays. The South Dakota Republican&#8217;s comments in an interview Wednesday reveal how Republicans are already thinking about their strategy for the fall funding fight&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/23\/congress\/thunes-september-strategy-government-shutdown-funding-00471918\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Congress will need a short-term spending bill to prevent a shutdown Oct. 1, with leadership allies likely to push for a patch running up until the year-end holidays. The South Dakota Republican&#8217;s comments in an interview Wednesday reveal how Republicans are already thinking about their strategy for the fall [&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-11655","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\/11655","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=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}