{"id":11979,"date":"2025-08-03T05:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-readies-nuclear-option-set-for-august-break-after-nominations-deal-falls-apart\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T05:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:21:04","slug":"senate-gop-readies-nuclear-option-set-for-august-break-after-nominations-deal-falls-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-readies-nuclear-option-set-for-august-break-after-nominations-deal-falls-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP readies \u2018nuclear\u2019 option, set for August break after nominations deal falls apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate is set to finally begin its August recess without a deal on nominations as Republicans are intent on moving forward with a rules change to limit length of time spent on individual nominees enable President Trump&rsquo;s selections to be confirmed more expeditiously due to a Democratic blockade&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5433989-senate-gop-nuclear-option-failed-nominations\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate is set to finally begin its August recess without a deal on nominations as Republicans are intent on moving forward with a rules change to limit length of time spent on individual nominees enable President Trump&rsquo;s selections to be confirmed more expeditiously due to a Democratic blockade&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11979","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\/11979","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=11979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}