{"id":14537,"date":"2025-10-17T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-dangles-obamacare-vote-after-shutdown-ends-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:21:05","slug":"thune-dangles-obamacare-vote-after-shutdown-ends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-dangles-obamacare-vote-after-shutdown-ends-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune dangles Obamacare vote after shutdown ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune is trying to entice Democrats to support reopening the government with a vote on their biggest priority.  Thune, in an interview with BLN&rsquo;s Ali Vitali, said he has told Democrats that &ldquo;if you need a vote, we can guarantee you get a vote by a date certain.&rdquo;  &ldquo;At some point Democrats have to take yes for an answer,&rdquo; he added&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/16\/congress\/thune-dangles-obamacare-vote-after-shutdown-ends-00611223\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune is trying to entice Democrats to support reopening the government with a vote on their biggest priority. Thune, in an interview with BLN&rsquo;s Ali Vitali, said he has told Democrats that &ldquo;if you need a vote, we can guarantee you get a vote by a date certain.&rdquo; &ldquo;At some point [&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-14537","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\/14537","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=14537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}