{"id":15452,"date":"2025-11-09T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/itll-take-them-5-days-rand-paul-could-be-obstacle-to-quickly-ending-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:46:43","slug":"itll-take-them-5-days-rand-paul-could-be-obstacle-to-quickly-ending-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/itll-take-them-5-days-rand-paul-could-be-obstacle-to-quickly-ending-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’ll take them 5 days’: Rand Paul could be obstacle to quickly ending shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate is expected to vote as soon as Sunday night to start advancing legislation to end the 40-day government shutdown, but there are obstacles that could drag the process out for many more days.<\/p>\n

One of them is Sen. Rand Paul<\/a> (R-Ky.), who has been warning GOP leaders that he will obstruct passage of any bill that takes aim at the hemp industry in his state. <\/p>\n

The hemp policy fight has been a major internal headache for the GOP, pitting Paul against fellow Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell<\/a>. The release of Agriculture spending bill text Sunday showed McConnell, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, won out over Paul, with the inclusion of language that would crack down on some intoxicating hemp products<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paul said late last week that he has warned GOP leaders that he plans to drag out Senate passage of any shutdown-ended deal if he didn’t get alternate language he’s been pushing in the hemp fight.<\/p>\n

“I’ll vote no, but it also it’ll take them five days to pass this,” Rand said in a brief interview Thursday. He argued his fellow Senate Republicans were pushing policies that would “kill an entire industry.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate is expected to vote as soon as Sunday night to start advancing legislation to end the 40-day government shutdown, but there are obstacles that could drag the process out for many more days. One of them is Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has been warning GOP leaders that he will obstruct passage of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452","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=15452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}