{"id":14025,"date":"2025-10-03T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/weekend-votes-unlikely-thune-says-meaning-shutdown-could-push-into-next-week-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:21:02","slug":"weekend-votes-unlikely-thune-says-meaning-shutdown-could-push-into-next-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/weekend-votes-unlikely-thune-says-meaning-shutdown-could-push-into-next-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend votes \u2018unlikely,\u2019 Thune says, meaning shutdown could push into next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Thursday that it&rsquo;s &ldquo;unlikely&rdquo; senators will be in the Capitol voting this weekend, all but guaranteeing the government shutdown goes into next week. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to vote to open up the government, and if that fails&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/02\/congress\/shutdown-senate-votes-weekend-00591890\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Thursday that it&rsquo;s &ldquo;unlikely&rdquo; senators will be in the Capitol voting this weekend, all but guaranteeing the government shutdown goes into next week. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to vote to open up the government, and if that fails&#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-14025","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\/14025","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=14025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}