{"id":13954,"date":"2025-10-02T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pain-will-be-inflicted-as-shutdown-drags-on-mike-johnson-says-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:20:32","slug":"pain-will-be-inflicted-as-shutdown-drags-on-mike-johnson-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pain-will-be-inflicted-as-shutdown-drags-on-mike-johnson-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pain will be inflicted\u2019 as shutdown drags on, Mike Johnson says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republican congressional leaders blasted Democrats on Wednesday for opposing their short-term funding stopgap and triggering the pending federal shutdown. Johnson on Wednesday echoed threats from President Donald Trump that a shutdown&#8217;s burdens would fall disproportionately on Democrats by slashing blue-state funding and potentially government &ldquo;benefits.&rdquo; &#8220;The longer this goes on&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/01\/congress\/mike-johnson-shutdown-pain-00589693\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republican congressional leaders blasted Democrats on Wednesday for opposing their short-term funding stopgap and triggering the pending federal shutdown. Johnson on Wednesday echoed threats from President Donald Trump that a shutdown&#8217;s burdens would fall disproportionately on Democrats by slashing blue-state funding and potentially government &ldquo;benefits.&rdquo; &#8220;The longer this goes on&#8230;Read [&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-13954","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\/13954","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=13954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}