{"id":13455,"date":"2025-09-19T04:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-approves-new-path-for-member-security-funding-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:21:15","slug":"senate-approves-new-path-for-member-security-funding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-approves-new-path-for-member-security-funding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves new path for member security funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate greenlit a rules change Thursday night to allow senators to use official office funds for personal security measures &mdash; a move driven by concerns about lawmaker security in the wake of last week&#8217;s assassination of Charlie Kirk. Senate Majority Leader John Thune brought the proposal to the floor and it was approved by unanimous consent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/18\/congress\/senate-approves-new-path-for-member-security-funding-00572613\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate greenlit a rules change Thursday night to allow senators to use official office funds for personal security measures &mdash; a move driven by concerns about lawmaker security in the wake of last week&#8217;s assassination of Charlie Kirk. Senate Majority Leader John Thune brought the proposal to the floor and it was approved by [&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-13455","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\/13455","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=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}