{"id":18325,"date":"2026-01-28T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/top-hunt-aide-charged-taxpayers-44000-in-hotel-expenses-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:22:17","slug":"top-hunt-aide-charged-taxpayers-44000-in-hotel-expenses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/top-hunt-aide-charged-taxpayers-44000-in-hotel-expenses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Hunt aide charged taxpayers $44,000 in hotel expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Republican&rsquo;s top aide, James Kyrkanides, racked up the tab over three years, with an average nightly stay costing four times the federal benchmark rate&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/28\/top-hunt-aide-charged-taxpayers-44-000-in-hotel-expenses-00750033\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Republican&rsquo;s top aide, James Kyrkanides, racked up the tab over three years, with an average nightly stay costing four times the federal benchmark rate&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18325","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\/18325","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=18325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}