{"id":16691,"date":"2025-12-14T02:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-still-not-interested-in-nixing-blue-slips-thune-says-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:20:31","slug":"senate-gop-still-not-interested-in-nixing-blue-slips-thune-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-still-not-interested-in-nixing-blue-slips-thune-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP still not interested in nixing blue slips, Thune says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune poured cold water on a fresh call by President Donald Trump for Republicans to nix the &#8220;blue slip&#8221; practice that gives senators an effective veto over presidential nominees to certain posts in their states. &ldquo;There are many Republican senators, way more Republican senators who are interested in preserving that than those who aren&rsquo;t,&#8221; Thune told reporters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/11\/congress\/b-00686585\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune poured cold water on a fresh call by President Donald Trump for Republicans to nix the &#8220;blue slip&#8221; practice that gives senators an effective veto over presidential nominees to certain posts in their states. &ldquo;There are many Republican senators, way more Republican senators who are interested in preserving that than [&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-16691","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\/16691","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=16691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}