{"id":17010,"date":"2025-12-21T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-threatens-to-withhold-smithsonian-funds-amid-review\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:20:21","slug":"white-house-threatens-to-withhold-smithsonian-funds-amid-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-threatens-to-withhold-smithsonian-funds-amid-review\/","title":{"rendered":"White House threatens to withhold Smithsonian funds amid review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House threatened to withhold federal funding to the Smithsonian if the prestigious museum system does not submit additional documentation for the Trump administration&rsquo;s sweeping content review. In a Thursday letter to Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch, Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley and White House budget director Russell Vought&nbsp;outlined the material they said&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5658848-smithsonian-white-house-funding-review\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House threatened to withhold federal funding to the Smithsonian if the prestigious museum system does not submit additional documentation for the Trump administration&rsquo;s sweeping content review. In a Thursday letter to Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch, Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley and White House budget director Russell Vought&nbsp;outlined the material they said&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17010","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\/17010","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=17010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}