{"id":14715,"date":"2025-10-22T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-chatter-rises-on-filibuster-reform-to-end-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:20:26","slug":"senate-gop-chatter-rises-on-filibuster-reform-to-end-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-chatter-rises-on-filibuster-reform-to-end-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP chatter rises on filibuster reform to end shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are increasingly chattering about changing the filibuster&rsquo;s rules if Democrats do not end the shutdown, even though Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he opposes weakening a tool safeguarding the minority&rsquo;s power. Initially, there was no discussion about filibuster reform when it came to the shutdown&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5566292-senate-republicans-filibuster-reform\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are increasingly chattering about changing the filibuster&rsquo;s rules if Democrats do not end the shutdown, even though Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he opposes weakening a tool safeguarding the minority&rsquo;s power. Initially, there was no discussion about filibuster reform when it came to the shutdown&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14715","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\/14715","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=14715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}