{"id":15474,"date":"2025-11-10T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-funding-congress-would-bolster-member-security-spare-gao-from-steep-cuts-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:21:09","slug":"bill-funding-congress-would-bolster-member-security-spare-gao-from-steep-cuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-funding-congress-would-bolster-member-security-spare-gao-from-steep-cuts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill funding Congress would bolster member security, spare GAO from steep cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan agreement to fund Congress and congressional support agencies for the entirety of the current fiscal year would boost funding for member security and saves the nation&rsquo;s top federal watchdog from dramatic cuts.  Senate leaders hope the legislative branch funding bill, released Sunday, will be enacted in the coming days as part of a deal to end the government shutdown&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/09\/congress\/bill-text-summary-released-for-legislative-branch-spending-compromise-00644040\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan agreement to fund Congress and congressional support agencies for the entirety of the current fiscal year would boost funding for member security and saves the nation&rsquo;s top federal watchdog from dramatic cuts. Senate leaders hope the legislative branch funding bill, released Sunday, will be enacted in the coming days as part of a [&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-15474","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\/15474","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=15474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}