{"id":15519,"date":"2025-11-11T06:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/why-a-handful-of-democratic-senators-decided-to-end-the-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:20:31","slug":"why-a-handful-of-democratic-senators-decided-to-end-the-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/why-a-handful-of-democratic-senators-decided-to-end-the-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a handful of Democratic senators decided to end the shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), who nearly a decade ago served as Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s running mate when she lost the presidency to Donald Trump, was the&nbsp;eighth&nbsp;Democratic senator to back a centrist deal the Senate is set to approve Monday that is likely to soon end the longest shutdown in American history&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5599509-democrats-abandon-schumer-strategy\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.), who nearly a decade ago served as Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s running mate when she lost the presidency to Donald Trump, was the&nbsp;eighth&nbsp;Democratic senator to back a centrist deal the Senate is set to approve Monday that is likely to soon end the longest shutdown in American history&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15519","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\/15519","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=15519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}