{"id":13576,"date":"2025-09-22T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-locked-in-game-of-shutdown-chicken-as-funding-deadline-nears\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:20:38","slug":"congress-locked-in-game-of-shutdown-chicken-as-funding-deadline-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-locked-in-game-of-shutdown-chicken-as-funding-deadline-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress locked in game of shutdown chicken as funding deadline nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is cruising at a steady clip toward a government shutdown at the end of the month, with both parties &mdash; and both chambers &mdash; pointing fingers at the other while refusing to blink.&nbsp; Lawmakers from both chambers are in their home states this week after the House passed a GOP-crafted government funding bill that&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5513293-congress-shutdown-government-funding-deadline\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is cruising at a steady clip toward a government shutdown at the end of the month, with both parties &mdash; and both chambers &mdash; pointing fingers at the other while refusing to blink.&nbsp; Lawmakers from both chambers are in their home states this week after the House passed a GOP-crafted government funding bill that&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13576","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\/13576","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=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}