{"id":14304,"date":"2025-10-11T08:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/murkowski-bashes-trump-administration-over-punitive-federal-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:20:24","slug":"murkowski-bashes-trump-administration-over-punitive-federal-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/murkowski-bashes-trump-administration-over-punitive-federal-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski bashes Trump administration over \u2018punitive\u2019 federal layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) took a swipe at White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Russell Vought over the firing of federal workers amid the government shutdown. &#8220;While few details have been shared about Russell Vought&rsquo;s latest layoffs, there is no question this is poorly timed and yet another example of this administration&rsquo;s&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5550592-murkowski-criticizes-federal-layoffs\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) took a swipe at White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Russell Vought over the firing of federal workers amid the government shutdown. &#8220;While few details have been shared about Russell Vought&rsquo;s latest layoffs, there is no question this is poorly timed and yet another example of this administration&rsquo;s&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14304","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\/14304","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=14304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}