{"id":11848,"date":"2025-07-31T01:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-backtracks-on-nih-funding-hold-amid-hill-uproar-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:20:31","slug":"white-house-backtracks-on-nih-funding-hold-amid-hill-uproar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-backtracks-on-nih-funding-hold-amid-hill-uproar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"White House backtracks on NIH funding hold amid Hill uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under pressure from Congress, President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has reversed course after halting spending at the National Institutes of Health. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had been clamoring for cash to flow while warning that the White House budget office&#8217;s decisions have been contributing to a chaotic state of affairs that agitated elected officials in states where jobs rely on NIH dollars&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/30\/congress\/nih-cash-unfrozen-00484385\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under pressure from Congress, President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has reversed course after halting spending at the National Institutes of Health. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had been clamoring for cash to flow while warning that the White House budget office&#8217;s decisions have been contributing to a chaotic state of affairs that agitated elected [&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-11848","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\/11848","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=11848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}