{"id":14889,"date":"2025-10-27T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/largest-federal-workers-union-calls-for-an-immediate-end-to-the-shutdown-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:20:47","slug":"largest-federal-workers-union-calls-for-an-immediate-end-to-the-shutdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/largest-federal-workers-union-calls-for-an-immediate-end-to-the-shutdown-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest federal workers\u2019 union calls for an immediate end to the shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation&rsquo;s largest union of federal workers is calling on Congress to pass a short-term funding bill and immediately end the government shutdown as it heads into its fourth week. In a strong condemnation of both parties on Monday, the American Federation of Government Employees argued the shutdown is an &ldquo;avoidable crisis&rdquo; harming American families and workers across the nation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/27\/congress\/afges-shutdown-message-00623518\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation&rsquo;s largest union of federal workers is calling on Congress to pass a short-term funding bill and immediately end the government shutdown as it heads into its fourth week. In a strong condemnation of both parties on Monday, the American Federation of Government Employees argued the shutdown is an &ldquo;avoidable crisis&rdquo; harming American families [&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-14889","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\/14889","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=14889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}