{"id":13858,"date":"2025-09-29T22:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/federal-workers-unions-call-on-schumer-jeffries-to-hold-the-line-even-if-it-means-a-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:20:30","slug":"federal-workers-unions-call-on-schumer-jeffries-to-hold-the-line-even-if-it-means-a-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/federal-workers-unions-call-on-schumer-jeffries-to-hold-the-line-even-if-it-means-a-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal workers unions call on Schumer, Jeffries to hold the line even if it means a shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of federal unions are calling on Democratic leadership to fight back against budget cuts to &ldquo;critical public services,&rdquo; even if it leads to a government shutdown and mass layoffs. In a letter to minority leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Federal Unionists Network and 35 local&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/29\/congress\/unions-and-shutdown-00583979\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of federal unions are calling on Democratic leadership to fight back against budget cuts to &ldquo;critical public services,&rdquo; even if it leads to a government shutdown and mass layoffs. In a letter to minority leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Federal Unionists Network and 35 local&#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-13858","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\/13858","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=13858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}