{"id":15197,"date":"2025-11-03T22:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/epa-union-government-shutdown-deal-must-include-health-care-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:20:22","slug":"epa-union-government-shutdown-deal-must-include-health-care-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/epa-union-government-shutdown-deal-must-include-health-care-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA union: Government shutdown deal must include health care funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the union representing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers on Monday urged Congress to include health care protections in a bill to reopen the government as the shutdown approaches record length. &ldquo;The U.S. government must be fully funded immediately, and that has to include funding for health care,&#8221; said Justin Chen&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/5586734-epa-union-healthcare-shutdown\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the union representing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers on Monday urged Congress to include health care protections in a bill to reopen the government as the shutdown approaches record length. &ldquo;The U.S. government must be fully funded immediately, and that has to include funding for health care,&#8221; said Justin Chen&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15197","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\/15197","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=15197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}