{"id":16824,"date":"2025-12-17T03:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/absolute-bulls-t-endangered-house-republican-blasts-leaders-over-impending-obamacare-lapse-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T03:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:20:40","slug":"absolute-bulls-t-endangered-house-republican-blasts-leaders-over-impending-obamacare-lapse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/absolute-bulls-t-endangered-house-republican-blasts-leaders-over-impending-obamacare-lapse-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Absolute bulls&#8211;t\u2019: Endangered House Republican blasts leaders over impending Obamacare lapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An infuriated Rep. Mike Lawler left a closed-door House Republican meeting Tuesday and sounded off on GOP leaders who are planning to allow key Obamacare subsidies to expire in two weeks. &#8220;This is absolute bullshit,&#8221; the New York Republican said. &ldquo;I think it&#8217;s idiotic not to have an up-or-down vote on this issue,&rdquo; he told reporters of leaders&rsquo; refusal to hold a vote on a modified version of the expiring subsidies&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/16\/congress\/mike-lawler-obamacare-lapse-00692577\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An infuriated Rep. Mike Lawler left a closed-door House Republican meeting Tuesday and sounded off on GOP leaders who are planning to allow key Obamacare subsidies to expire in two weeks. &#8220;This is absolute bullshit,&#8221; the New York Republican said. &ldquo;I think it&#8217;s idiotic not to have an up-or-down vote on this issue,&rdquo; he told [&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-16824","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\/16824","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=16824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}