{"id":14060,"date":"2025-10-04T23:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-warns-democrats-about-russ-vought-we-dont-control-what-hes-going-to-do-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T23:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:20:36","slug":"thune-warns-democrats-about-russ-vought-we-dont-control-what-hes-going-to-do-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-warns-democrats-about-russ-vought-we-dont-control-what-hes-going-to-do-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune warns Democrats about Russ Vought: \u2018We don\u2019t control what he\u2019s going to do\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn&rsquo;t endorsing the slash-and-burn campaign White House budget director Russ Vought has planned for the federal government during the pending shutdown. But he says Democrats have no one to blame for it but themselves. &ldquo;This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought,&rdquo; the Senate majority leader said in an exclusive interview Wednesday in the Capitol&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/02\/congress\/john-thune-russ-vought-warning-00591596\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn&rsquo;t endorsing the slash-and-burn campaign White House budget director Russ Vought has planned for the federal government during the pending shutdown. But he says Democrats have no one to blame for it but themselves. &ldquo;This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought,&rdquo; [&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-14060","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\/14060","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=14060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}