{"id":13240,"date":"2025-09-14T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-lawmakers-want-more-security-after-kirk-killing\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:20:28","slug":"mike-johnson-lawmakers-want-more-security-after-kirk-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-lawmakers-want-more-security-after-kirk-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson: Lawmakers want more security after Kirk killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that Hill officials were expediting a planned review of member security following the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Republican and Democratic House leaders had previously announced a pilot program to increase money available for security for members and their families&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/11\/congress\/johnson-to-speed-up-member-security-review-00557137\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that Hill officials were expediting a planned review of member security following the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Republican and Democratic House leaders had previously announced a pilot program to increase money available for security for members and their families&#8230;Read More<\/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-13240","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\/13240","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=13240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}