{"id":14737,"date":"2025-10-22T16:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schumer-jeffries-reach-out-to-donald-trump-as-shutdown-grinds-on-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:21:12","slug":"schumer-jeffries-reach-out-to-donald-trump-as-shutdown-grinds-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schumer-jeffries-reach-out-to-donald-trump-as-shutdown-grinds-on-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer, Jeffries reach out to Donald Trump as shutdown grinds on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top congressional Democrats contacted President Donald Trump on Tuesday to request a meeting as the shutdown drags into a fourth week. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in comments to reporters after a closed-door caucus lunch that he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries &ldquo;reached out to the president today and urged him to sit down and negotiate with us to resolve the health care crisis&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/21\/congress\/shutdown-schumer-jeffries-contact-trump-00617209\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top congressional Democrats contacted President Donald Trump on Tuesday to request a meeting as the shutdown drags into a fourth week. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in comments to reporters after a closed-door caucus lunch that he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries &ldquo;reached out to the president today and urged him to [&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-14737","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\/14737","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=14737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}