{"id":16944,"date":"2025-12-19T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-path-for-another-gop-party-line-bill-ways-and-means-chair-says-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:20:32","slug":"no-path-for-another-gop-party-line-bill-ways-and-means-chair-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-path-for-another-gop-party-line-bill-ways-and-means-chair-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No path\u2019 for another GOP party-line bill, Ways and Means chair says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith is swatting down some of his colleagues&#8217; hopes for a party-line policy bill next year, even as Speaker Mike Johnson publicly tries to keep the idea alive. &ldquo;I don&#8217;t see a path of a second reconciliation ever passing,&rdquo; Smith (R-Mo.) said in an interview as he left the Capitol on Wednesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/18\/congress\/jason-smith-reconciliation-2026-00698324\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith is swatting down some of his colleagues&#8217; hopes for a party-line policy bill next year, even as Speaker Mike Johnson publicly tries to keep the idea alive. &ldquo;I don&#8217;t see a path of a second reconciliation ever passing,&rdquo; Smith (R-Mo.) said in an interview as he left the [&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-16944","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\/16944","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=16944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}