{"id":17303,"date":"2026-01-03T06:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mccarthy-says-lawmakers-heading-for-the-door-because-nothing-is-happening\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:20:45","slug":"mccarthy-says-lawmakers-heading-for-the-door-because-nothing-is-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mccarthy-says-lawmakers-heading-for-the-door-because-nothing-is-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy says lawmakers heading for the door because &#8216;nothing is happening&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday said congressional lawmakers are retiring because &#8220;nothing is happening&#8221; on Capitol Hill. &#8220;If nothing&rsquo;s being accomplished &mdash; because they are making a sacrifice, they&rsquo;re being away from their family, sometimes it&rsquo;s a long travel, you get harassed, you get death threats&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5670451-mccarthy-lawmakers-retiring-capitol-hill\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday said congressional lawmakers are retiring because &#8220;nothing is happening&#8221; on Capitol Hill. &#8220;If nothing&rsquo;s being accomplished &mdash; because they are making a sacrifice, they&rsquo;re being away from their family, sometimes it&rsquo;s a long travel, you get harassed, you get death threats&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17303","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\/17303","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=17303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}