{"id":14795,"date":"2025-10-24T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/blaming-democrats-johnson-wont-bring-house-back-to-pay-air-traffic-controllers-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:20:46","slug":"blaming-democrats-johnson-wont-bring-house-back-to-pay-air-traffic-controllers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/blaming-democrats-johnson-wont-bring-house-back-to-pay-air-traffic-controllers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaming Democrats, Johnson won\u2019t bring House back to pay air traffic controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he won&rsquo;t bring the House back to vote to pay air traffic controllers and other essential employees, saying the measure &ldquo;would be spiked in the Senate&rdquo; anyway &mdash; and besides, &ldquo;it would take the pressure off [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer to get his job done and open the government again.&rdquo; Johnson made the comments Thursday at a press conference with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/23\/congress\/johnson-house-air-traffic-control-00620225\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he won&rsquo;t bring the House back to vote to pay air traffic controllers and other essential employees, saying the measure &ldquo;would be spiked in the Senate&rdquo; anyway &mdash; and besides, &ldquo;it would take the pressure off [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer to get his job done and open the government again.&rdquo; [&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-14795","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\/14795","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=14795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}