{"id":14890,"date":"2025-10-27T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-brace-for-sharper-shutdown-pain-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:20:46","slug":"capitol-agenda-brace-for-sharper-shutdown-pain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-brace-for-sharper-shutdown-pain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Brace for sharper shutdown pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is just days away from a significant escalation of shutdown pain. But with President Donald Trump in Asia all week, there&rsquo;s little hope of an immediate breakthrough. Come Nov. 1, SNAP benefits will be halted for over 40 million people, troops will miss their next paychecks and millions of Americans will see sharp premium hikes as they start shopping for Affordable Care Act health plans&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/27\/congress\/shutdown-trump-snap-troops-federal-paychecks-00623501\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is just days away from a significant escalation of shutdown pain. But with President Donald Trump in Asia all week, there&rsquo;s little hope of an immediate breakthrough. Come Nov. 1, SNAP benefits will be halted for over 40 million people, troops will miss their next paychecks and millions of Americans will see sharp premium [&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-14890","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\/14890","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=14890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}