{"id":14268,"date":"2025-10-10T01:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pressuring-democrats-johnson-rules-out-standalone-troop-pay-bill-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:21:24","slug":"pressuring-democrats-johnson-rules-out-standalone-troop-pay-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pressuring-democrats-johnson-rules-out-standalone-troop-pay-bill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressuring Democrats, Johnson rules out standalone troop pay bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans on a private call Thursday that he doesn&rsquo;t plan to put a standalone bill to pay troops up for a vote before they miss paychecks Oct. 15, arguing the Senate would kill that measure while Democrats also block an already-passed stopgap bill that includes servicemember pay&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/09\/congress\/mike-johnson-rules-out-troop-pay-bill-00599885\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans on a private call Thursday that he doesn&rsquo;t plan to put a standalone bill to pay troops up for a vote before they miss paychecks Oct. 15, arguing the Senate would kill that measure while Democrats also block an already-passed stopgap bill that includes servicemember pay&#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-14268","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\/14268","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=14268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}