{"id":17481,"date":"2026-01-09T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/donald-trump-cant-count-on-congress-to-have-his-back-any-more-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:20:42","slug":"donald-trump-cant-count-on-congress-to-have-his-back-any-more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/donald-trump-cant-count-on-congress-to-have-his-back-any-more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump can\u2019t count on Congress to have his back any more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans dealt the president a series of rebukes Thursday that cast fresh doubt about his sway on Capitol Hill&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/08\/donald-trump-congress-weak-00718030\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans dealt the president a series of rebukes Thursday that cast fresh doubt about his sway on Capitol Hill&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17481","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\/17481","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=17481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}