{"id":15165,"date":"2025-11-02T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-senate-aide-with-a-44000-taxpayer-funded-commute-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:20:21","slug":"meet-the-senate-aide-with-a-44000-taxpayer-funded-commute-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-senate-aide-with-a-44000-taxpayer-funded-commute-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Senate aide with a $44,000 taxpayer-funded commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Roger Marshall&rsquo;s chief of staff, Brent Robertson, has taken at least 26 trips to Washington from his home in central Virginia&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/29\/brent-robertson-senate-commute-00626468\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Roger Marshall&rsquo;s chief of staff, Brent Robertson, has taken at least 26 trips to Washington from his home in central Virginia&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165","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=15165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}