{"id":14971,"date":"2025-10-29T00:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-say-theyll-oppose-trumps-kuwait-ambassador-pick\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:20:24","slug":"senate-republicans-say-theyll-oppose-trumps-kuwait-ambassador-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-say-theyll-oppose-trumps-kuwait-ambassador-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans say they&#8217;ll oppose Trump&#8217;s Kuwait ambassador pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will oppose President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick for ambassador to Kuwait, Amer Ghalib, likely derailing his confirmation for the position. It would be the second time this month that a Trump nominee has been tanked by members of the president&rsquo;s own party over concerns about a history of allegedly antisemitic remarks&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/28\/congress\/another-doomed-trump-nominee-00625374\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will oppose President Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick for ambassador to Kuwait, Amer Ghalib, likely derailing his confirmation for the position. It would be the second time this month that a Trump nominee has been tanked by members of the president&rsquo;s own party over concerns about a [&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-14971","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\/14971","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=14971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}