{"id":13912,"date":"2025-10-01T03:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-other-reason-democrats-are-taking-trump-to-the-mat-in-a-shutdown-battle-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:20:46","slug":"the-other-reason-democrats-are-taking-trump-to-the-mat-in-a-shutdown-battle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-other-reason-democrats-are-taking-trump-to-the-mat-in-a-shutdown-battle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The other reason Democrats are taking Trump to the mat in a shutdown battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health care assistance is their No. 1 demand, but Democrats are battling over something even more fundamental&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/30\/the-other-reason-democrats-are-taking-trump-to-the-mat-in-a-shutdown-battle-00588747\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health care assistance is their No. 1 demand, but Democrats are battling over something even more fundamental&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13912","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\/13912","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=13912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}