{"id":11762,"date":"2025-07-28T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/collins-looks-to-navigate-trump-funding-landmines-as-2026-looms\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:20:54","slug":"collins-looks-to-navigate-trump-funding-landmines-as-2026-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/collins-looks-to-navigate-trump-funding-landmines-as-2026-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins looks to navigate Trump, funding landmines as 2026 looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is feeling the squeeze as she navigates a series of political landmines that put her at odds with President Trump and many of her own colleagues. Collins this summer voted &#8220;no&#8221; on two of Trump&#8217;s biggest priorities: the GOP&#8217;s mammoth tax and spending bill and a measure to claw back money&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5421209-collins-trump-gop-funding\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is feeling the squeeze as she navigates a series of political landmines that put her at odds with President Trump and many of her own colleagues. Collins this summer voted &#8220;no&#8221; on two of Trump&#8217;s biggest priorities: the GOP&#8217;s mammoth tax and spending bill and a measure to claw back money&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11762","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\/11762","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=11762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}