{"id":17649,"date":"2026-01-13T06:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-are-speaking-out-on-behalf-of-the-fed-not-banking-chair-tim-scott\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:22:23","slug":"republicans-are-speaking-out-on-behalf-of-the-fed-not-banking-chair-tim-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-are-speaking-out-on-behalf-of-the-fed-not-banking-chair-tim-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are speaking out on behalf of the Fed. Not Banking Chair Tim Scott."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina Republican has not weighed in on the central bank&rsquo;s independence after a hearing he led comes under DOJ scrutiny&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/12\/tim-scott-jerome-powell-silence-00723902\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina Republican has not weighed in on the central bank&rsquo;s independence after a hearing he led comes under DOJ scrutiny&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17649","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\/17649","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=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}