{"id":14504,"date":"2025-10-16T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fetterman-criticizes-fellow-democrats-over-shutdown-i-follow-country-then-party\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:20:47","slug":"fetterman-criticizes-fellow-democrats-over-shutdown-i-follow-country-then-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fetterman-criticizes-fellow-democrats-over-shutdown-i-follow-country-then-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman criticizes fellow Democrats over shutdown: &#8216;I follow country, then party&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has criticized Democrats over the government shutdown, adding that discussions on health care subsidies can take place when the government is funded. &ldquo;I follow country, then party,&rdquo; Fetterman said at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday night during NewsNation&#8217;s live town hall. Fetterman said some of his constituents are angry with him&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5557907-fetterman-criticizes-democrats-shutdown\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has criticized Democrats over the government shutdown, adding that discussions on health care subsidies can take place when the government is funded. &ldquo;I follow country, then party,&rdquo; Fetterman said at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday night during NewsNation&#8217;s live town hall. Fetterman said some of his constituents are angry with him&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14504","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\/14504","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=14504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}