{"id":13040,"date":"2025-09-09T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-tees-up-nuclear-option-to-end-democratic-nomineeblockade\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:22:15","slug":"senate-gop-tees-up-nuclear-option-to-end-democratic-nomineeblockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-tees-up-nuclear-option-to-end-democratic-nomineeblockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP tees up &#8216;nuclear option&#8217; to end Democratic nomineeblockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans on Monday formally got the ball rolling on their bid to invoke the so-called nuclear option and change the chamber&rsquo;s rules in order to expeditiously confirm dozens of President Trump&#8217;s stalled nominees in the coming weeks. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday started the process of making the rules change on&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5492807-senate-gop-nuclear-option-trump-nominees\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans on Monday formally got the ball rolling on their bid to invoke the so-called nuclear option and change the chamber&rsquo;s rules in order to expeditiously confirm dozens of President Trump&#8217;s stalled nominees in the coming weeks. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday started the process of making the rules change on&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13040","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\/13040","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=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}