{"id":15117,"date":"2025-11-01T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-employees-get-help-ahead-of-first-missed-paycheck-of-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:20:48","slug":"house-employees-get-help-ahead-of-first-missed-paycheck-of-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-employees-get-help-ahead-of-first-missed-paycheck-of-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"House employees get help ahead of first missed paycheck of shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All employees of the House of Representatives were issued templates for letters Wednesday they can present to creditors before Friday, when they&#8217;re expected to miss their first paychecks &mdash; short of a sudden breakthrough in negotiations to end the government shutdown.  &#8220;Employees affected by the government shutdown may face temporary hardship in meeting their financial obligations&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/29\/congress\/shutdown-paycheck-woes-00627281\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All employees of the House of Representatives were issued templates for letters Wednesday they can present to creditors before Friday, when they&#8217;re expected to miss their first paychecks &mdash; short of a sudden breakthrough in negotiations to end the government shutdown. &#8220;Employees affected by the government shutdown may face temporary hardship in meeting their financial [&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-15117","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\/15117","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=15117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}