{"id":11773,"date":"2025-07-28T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-johnson-will-have-to-deal-with-epstein-mess-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:21:04","slug":"thune-johnson-will-have-to-deal-with-epstein-mess-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-johnson-will-have-to-deal-with-epstein-mess-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune: Johnson will have to \u2018deal\u2019 with Epstein mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has to figure out a way forward on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that&#8217;s derailed House business until the fall. &ldquo;In some fashion, in some way, he&#8217;s going to have to handle it and deal with it,&rdquo; Thune said during an interview from his Senate office&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/23\/congress\/thune-interview-on-epstein-johnson-00471670\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson has to figure out a way forward on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that&#8217;s derailed House business until the fall. &ldquo;In some fashion, in some way, he&#8217;s going to have to handle it and deal with it,&rdquo; Thune said during an interview from his Senate [&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-11773","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\/11773","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=11773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}