{"id":15006,"date":"2025-10-30T04:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/john-thune-says-he-will-engage-pretty-soon-with-democrats-about-ending-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:20:25","slug":"john-thune-says-he-will-engage-pretty-soon-with-democrats-about-ending-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/john-thune-says-he-will-engage-pretty-soon-with-democrats-about-ending-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"John Thune says he will engage &#8216;pretty soon&#8217; with Democrats about ending shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday he expects to engage &#8220;pretty soon&#8221; with a group of rank-and-file Senate Democrats about ending the 29-day-and-counting government shutdown. If a meeting happens, it would be a rare bipartisan gathering involving a top party leader. So far this month&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/29\/congress\/angry-john-thune-democrats-00628293\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday he expects to engage &#8220;pretty soon&#8221; with a group of rank-and-file Senate Democrats about ending the 29-day-and-counting government shutdown. If a meeting happens, it would be a rare bipartisan gathering involving a top party leader. So far this month&#8230;Read More<\/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-15006","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\/15006","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=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}