{"id":15856,"date":"2025-11-20T03:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bessent-talks-midterms-acid-test-tariff-rebates-with-house-republicans-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:20:29","slug":"bessent-talks-midterms-acid-test-tariff-rebates-with-house-republicans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bessent-talks-midterms-acid-test-tariff-rebates-with-house-republicans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessent talks midterms \u2018acid test,\u2019 tariff rebates with House Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent chatted Wednesday with a group of House Republicans about how voters will judge the GOP&rsquo;s tax and trade moves heading into the 2026 midterm elections, according to House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington. During the private meeting Arrington hosted on Capitol Hill, Bessent discussed President Donald Trump&rsquo;s economic policy strategy with Republican members of the budget panel&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/19\/congress\/bessent-talks-midterms-acid-test-tariff-rebates-with-house-republicans-00659480\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent chatted Wednesday with a group of House Republicans about how voters will judge the GOP&rsquo;s tax and trade moves heading into the 2026 midterm elections, according to House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington. During the private meeting Arrington hosted on Capitol Hill, Bessent discussed President Donald Trump&rsquo;s economic policy strategy with Republican [&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-15856","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\/15856","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=15856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}