{"id":11803,"date":"2025-07-29T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nominations-pileup-has-senate-republicans-threatening-rules-changes-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:21:09","slug":"nominations-pileup-has-senate-republicans-threatening-rules-changes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nominations-pileup-has-senate-republicans-threatening-rules-changes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations pileup has Senate Republicans threatening rules changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Senate Republicans are warning Democrats that unless they start helping to speed up confirmations of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominees, there will be consequences &mdash; including a potential effort to change the chamber&#8217;s rules. The warning shot comes as Republicans seek to confirm dozens of Trump nominees before leaving for their traditional summer break&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/29\/congress\/senate-nominations-rules-changes-00481796\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Senate Republicans are warning Democrats that unless they start helping to speed up confirmations of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominees, there will be consequences &mdash; including a potential effort to change the chamber&#8217;s rules. The warning shot comes as Republicans seek to confirm dozens of Trump nominees before leaving for their traditional summer break&#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-11803","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\/11803","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=11803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}