{"id":15204,"date":"2025-11-03T22:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/head-of-federal-workers-union-talks-shutdown-strategy-with-top-dems-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T22:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:20:32","slug":"head-of-federal-workers-union-talks-shutdown-strategy-with-top-dems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/head-of-federal-workers-union-talks-shutdown-strategy-with-top-dems-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of federal workers&#8217; union talks shutdown strategy with top Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the largest federal employees&#8217; union talked with top Democratic congressional leaders about his organization&#8217;s calls for Democrats to shore up the votes to end the government shutdown. &ldquo;I won&#8217;t get into individual conversations, but they&#8217;re very well aware of why I&#8217;ve taken the stance that I&#8217;ve taken,&rdquo; AFGE president Everett Kelley said in an interview with Blue Light News&#8217;s Dasha Burns&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/03\/congress\/afge-president-talks-with-to-hill-dems-00633708\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the largest federal employees&#8217; union talked with top Democratic congressional leaders about his organization&#8217;s calls for Democrats to shore up the votes to end the government shutdown. &ldquo;I won&#8217;t get into individual conversations, but they&#8217;re very well aware of why I&#8217;ve taken the stance that I&#8217;ve taken,&rdquo; AFGE president Everett Kelley said [&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-15204","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\/15204","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=15204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}