{"id":12303,"date":"2025-08-13T21:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-floats-circumventing-congress-to-maintain-control-of-dc-police-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:21:45","slug":"trump-floats-circumventing-congress-to-maintain-control-of-dc-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-floats-circumventing-congress-to-maintain-control-of-dc-police-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump floats circumventing Congress to maintain control of DC police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president must secure congressional approval to extend the 30-day federal takeover&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/13\/trump-dc-police-congress-00507359\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president must secure congressional approval to extend the 30-day federal takeover&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12303","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\/12303","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=12303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}