{"id":13151,"date":"2025-09-12T00:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-goes-nuclear-to-break-trump-nominee-gridlock-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:20:27","slug":"senate-gop-goes-nuclear-to-break-trump-nominee-gridlock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-goes-nuclear-to-break-trump-nominee-gridlock-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP goes \u2018nuclear\u2019 to break Trump nominee gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans deployed the &ldquo;nuclear option&rdquo; Thursday to begin clearing a pileup of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominees, paving the way for them to be confirmed in potentially large groups starting next week. The 53-45 vote to change the rules comes after frustration about the slow pace of confirmations boiled over in the GOP conference following the collapse of bipartisan negotiations over the summer to confirm a package of nominees&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/11\/congress\/senate-gop-goes-nuclear-again-00558734\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans deployed the &ldquo;nuclear option&rdquo; Thursday to begin clearing a pileup of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominees, paving the way for them to be confirmed in potentially large groups starting next week. The 53-45 vote to change the rules comes after frustration about the slow pace of confirmations boiled over in the GOP conference following [&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-13151","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\/13151","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=13151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}