{"id":17525,"date":"2026-01-10T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/john-thune-and-donald-trump-had-a-spirited-conversation-over-senate-war-powers-vote-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:22:12","slug":"john-thune-and-donald-trump-had-a-spirited-conversation-over-senate-war-powers-vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/john-thune-and-donald-trump-had-a-spirited-conversation-over-senate-war-powers-vote-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John Thune and Donald Trump had a \u2018spirited\u2019 conversation over Senate war powers vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McALLEN, Texas &mdash; Shortly after five Republican senators broke with Donald Trump and voted Thursday to advance a measure constraining his military options in Venezuela, the president lashed out and called for them to lose their seats. Before he turned to Truth Social, however, he connected with John Thune and gave him a piece of his mind&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/09\/congress\/john-thune-trump-war-powers-00719369\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McALLEN, Texas &mdash; Shortly after five Republican senators broke with Donald Trump and voted Thursday to advance a measure constraining his military options in Venezuela, the president lashed out and called for them to lose their seats. Before he turned to Truth Social, however, he connected with John Thune and gave him a piece of [&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-17525","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\/17525","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=17525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}